Rebuild of One NAS System Initial Complete and Moved FreeNAS Configuration

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Well in an effort to save space and go up to 6gbs environment totally eventually I rebuilt my physical NAS system. I went from having a:

  • 4U rack mount case that I booted FreeNAS off
  • an Adaptec 39160 SCSI card,
    • with a 73gb 10k Seagate ST373207LW  SCSI drive

Also in the 4UCase:

  • a Dell PERC5e connected to

  • an External SGI 3U Omnistor SE301, 16 Bay JBOD Disk Array

    • with 3x 2TB 3gbs SAS Drives

  • with a Dell PERC H310i 6gbs SAS card

    • 2 x 2TB 6gbs SAS hard drives internally (in 4u Case)

    • Plus 1 x 4tb 6gbs SAS hard drive (in 4u Case)

  • The motherboard is an Intel S5000PSL

  • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz

  • 2 x Dynatron H185 Intel Xeon Socket 771

  • with 20gb FB DIMMS

  • with HP NC7170 PCI-X Dual Gigabit NIC

In my newly built enviornment I have it booting FreeNAS off of a thumb flash drive with the following:

  • 3U Chenbro RM31616 16-bay Storage server Chassis with 6Gb/s mini SAS

  • Dell H310 6gbs SAS card

  • 3 x 2TB 3gbs SAS drives

  • 4 x 2tb 6gbs SAS drives

  • 1 x 1 6gbs SAS drives

  • Intel S5000PSL Motherboard

  • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz

  • 2 x Dynatron H185 Intel Xeon Socket 771

  • 20GB FB DIMMS

  • HP NC7170 PCI-X Dual Gigabit NIC

I was able to move the FreeNAS configuration over by saving it to a file on one of my desktop systems and then after it picked up a DHCP address on boot up I uploaded the old configuration and it came up showing my old iSCSI targets to my Virtual environments as well as my NFS shares!

Well this was quite the overhaul! I had to customize and drill some additional holes into some old rails (get new cobalt bit from Home Depot) I have, got some smaller  screw heads since this new case was a bit wider, jump over to Fry’s get some cables to take internal fans from 4 pin to 3 pin then get that heavy beast up in the rack and cabled. I also had to take the chassis out to the garage and clean it since i got it used. I also added a couple of 50mm fans at the back of the case in addition to the 4 high volume fans that came with the case

I am happy with the functionality of the new unit and the hot swap capability with the 6gb SAS back-plane I can now make use of a source I have found for some decently priced 6gb\s SAS hard drives. The only complaint I now have is that the noise level has gone up considerably mostly due to the 3 x 400W Power supplies.

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