The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/puntoboy on 2024-07-04 08:53:07.
I don't know what to do about my Synology replacement. I have an DS1515+ that I use for media storage, OneDrive backup, and it runs some containers for things like Plex, *arr, etc. It's old and really really really slow. Backups take and age and I'm limited to the 4 x 1GB NICs it has (no expansion). I also cannot fit any more disks in so the only way to increase the storage is by changing the disks for larger ones, and the rebuild of SHR takes forever.
I now have two new rack mount hosts. I was going to use one as a direct replacement for the Synology but running Proxmox with some LXCs, Samba, etc. I've been testing this for a week or so but had some performance issues when copying data over via ZFS and it's maxing the CPU. This might just be a limitation of the CPU I have currently or the way I had the ZFS pool configured (temporarily using 4 x 4TB HDDs in RAIDZ1).
I hadn't really thought of a plan for the second host as I cobbled it together from parts I already owned.
Host 1 has the following:
- 20 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 v4 @ 2.40GHz (1 Socket)
- SuperMicro X10SRW-F motherboard
- 64GB DDR3 EEC RAM
- 1 x LSI MegaRAID SAS3 3108 controller (JBOD Mode)
- 2 x Intel DC S4500 480GB SAS SSD
- 4 x 4TB SATA HDDs
- 1 x Intel X540-AT2 dual port 10GBe NIC
Host 2 has the following:
- 16 x AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT @ 3.7GHZ
- MSI B550-A Pro motherboard
- 32GB DDR4 3200 RAM
- 1 x LSI SAS9220-8i controller (IT Mode)
- 1 x Samsung 850 Evo 250GB M.2 SSD
- 1 x Intel DC S4500 480GB SSD
- 1 x 3TB SATA HDD
- 1 x Intel X520-DA1 10GBE NIC
- 1 x Nvidia NVS 300 GPU
I also have 3 x 16TB HDDs that I recently bought and the 5 x 14TB HDDs from the Synology. Happy to swap any of the hardware around as necessary. The cases are SuperMicro CSE-826 chassis with 12 x 3.5 bays and a SAS3 expander/backplane.
I currently have about 50TB of raw space on the Synology and I'm using 43TB currently (all backed up) to an Unraid server I have with mixed disks (4TB and 8TB).
Ideally I'd like to have a single host to replace the Synology with at least the same amount of storage I have today, I think I settled on configuring all of the big HDDs into a ZFS dataset mirror (2 vDevs) but maybe this isn't ideal. Of course I have some SSDs for any caching/logs if needed as well. Most of the data getting written to the host would likely be from VMs/CTs on the host but it's a NAS, so I do store some of my own data there as well. Maybe I can use the second host as my homelab for any extra VMs I have?
Without selling or replacing any of the hardware I have, what would you do?