TrueNAS build for JBODs

[Stux]

@over9000

• build a 2U server - no need for drive bays in the server itself
• buy a large JBOD (at least 24 drives)

Have you considered simply building a 4U 24 bay system?

Build Report: Norco RPC-4224, SuperMicro X10-SRi-F, Xeon E5-2699A v4 Part 2

Continuing on from the Part 1 on the old forum. [image] I recently upgraded the CPU from E5-1650 v4 to the Unicorn model… the E5-2699A v4. This is an upgrade from 6 cores to 22! with a pretty good base clock. Broadwell era Xeons are cheap now and I get a kick out of dropping in a CPU with an RRP of 10K. With scale I now have a bunch of windows VMs etc running on this 7 year old system Previously, I was planning on virtualizing FreeNAS on top of ESXi, and as part of that I ob…