HELP: 10GBE NAS

[Rehmat]

Hi there 

I am building a NAS with 10gbe base-t for backups of large amounts of data at a single time. This server will have 3 clients max at any one time.

Would the following be ok. I understand that the spinning drives will not be able to transfer at 10gbe speeds, however i want this to be the only bottleneck.

both hdds will be in a single raid 1 and the ssds in a seperate raid. thus crating two shares.  I know that the hardware is on the old side but its pretty cheap and reliable.

Also have the a similar setup at home with standard gigabit network providing 120mb/s linux to widnows clients

 

CPU: i3 2120 or e3 1220l

COOLER: artic alpine 11

MOTHERBAORD: intel dq67ow

RAM: 8gb ddr3 1300mhz 

NIC: cheapest 10gbe base-t at time of purchase probably melanox

 

HDD 1: seagate 15k sas drive 500gb

HDD 2: seagate 15k sas drive 500gb

SSD 1: samsung 1tb 960

SSD2: samsung 1tb 960

 

lemme know if the cpu is a bottleneck for 10gbe, 

I will be using  lubuntu LTS  with samba.

[RollTime]

Not that I know of. You should be fine.

[Unhelpful]

It's going to be plugged into a switch with a 10gb port, right?

[Rehmat]

yes  i will have 1 10gbe port connected to a 10gbe switch and the second direct to a single client

 

thoughts on the i3 2120 cpu

[suchamoneypit]

I'm not so sure that CPU can handle 10GBPS. If you're moving around massive amounts of data like that, I think a dual core cpu might be a bottleneck. If transferring large files around the network (im not exactly if its different if its over LAN) is anything like downloading or uploading data , you will have trouble even with gigabit, nevermind 10-gigabit. Im not 100% sure on this though so let someone else join in the discussion as well.

[Rehmat]

what about a xeon e3 1220l 

[Zagna]

DQ67OW has a single PCIe 2.0 16x and a single PCIe 2.0 4x. Samsung 960's are M.2 NVMe drives?

So with the 10GBase-T taking up the 16x, how are the SSDs connected?

[suchamoneypit]

1 minute ago, Rehmat said:

what about a xeon e3 1220l 

Its identical core count, so it will be very similar performance. Also when you reply to people, make sure to @Rehmat them or to quote them, otherwise they will never receive a notification of your response unless they are sitting are the thread and waiting,

[Electronics Wizardy]

16 minutes ago, Rehmat said:

HDD 1: seagate 15k sas drive 500gb

HDD 2: seagate 15k sas drive 500gb 

Really toss these, thee slow, loud and power hungry. Just ge ta normal sata  hdd

17 minutes ago, Rehmat said:

lemme know if the cpu is a bottleneck for 10gbe, 

I will be using  lubuntu LTS  with samba

Samba likes cpu, something like nfs or iscsi would be faster here.

[Rehmat]

CPU: E3 1260L

COOLER: artic alpine 11

MOTHERBAORD: intel dq67ow

RAM: 8gb ddr3 1300mhz 

NIC: cheapest 10gbe base-t at time of purchase probably melanox

 

HDD 1: seagate 7200 barracuda

HDD 2: seagate 7200 barracuda

SSD 1: samsung 1tb 960

SSD2: samsung 1tb 960

 

what about this setup. the cpu is 4 cores 4 threads

also the barracudas will only be used for archiving data whilst the ssds will be used for live data

lemme know

 

[Salv8 (sam)]

3 hours ago, Rehmat said:

E3 1260L

if you are transferring that much data i would recermend a more modern processor, a i7 from 2015 would beat the crap out of it and would be able to handle the workload for a longer period of time, thats what would be best as transferring that much data can be heavy on the CPU and without Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) on your networking card, your client and server, your CPU is going to be bound quite a bit

[paddy-stone]

Personally I would opt for a 1st gen Ryzen right now, purely for core count... and there are some good bargains to be had too, have seen a 1700 as low as £140-ish and an 1800x for around £170 IIRC... of course that depends on what else you need in system as pci-e lanes and such.

[Rehmat]

@paddy-stone tbh the reason for going for this setup is that i have many of the required parts already left over from other projects  and this will mainly be used for experimentation and  backups of files and videos. Any where around 800 to 1000 mbs speed is good enough. Most of the time there will be only the single client and 

[Rehmat]

also does anybody know how the E3 1260L stacks up in 2018?

thanks

[paddy-stone]

6 hours ago, Rehmat said:

@paddy-stone tbh the reason for going for this setup is that i have many of the required parts already left over from other projects  and this will mainly be used for experimentation and  backups of files and videos. Any where around 800 to 1000 mbs speed is good enough. Most of the time there will be only the single client and 

Ah I see, no worries... yeah in that case I'd just see how you get on and only upgrade to newer hardware if you really need the extra speed. Any chance an auto backup like freefilesync might make your life easier?

So it backs up as soon as it detects a file change I believe.