Hi,
I'm building my first FreeBSD system from scratch and the motherboard I'm currently thinking of using is the Supermicro X10SRL-F. It supports two SATA DOM drives. If I do use the DOM devices (going for redundancy), I'm wondering if they will be large enough for the FreeBSD boot drive. I'm thinking of the 32GB units. The purpose of this build will be a file server and I'll probably move my Plex server off my aging FreeNAS box as well. I'll have 80TB (8x10TB) of storage using ZFS raidz2. I'll be using just one 1 Gb NIC and maybe upgrade to 10 Gb in the future.
I've read the user guide which recommends at least 8 GB of storage. Is 32 GB plenty? My FreeNAS has 16 GB and I'm getting warning's that it's almost full.
Also, I guess I should ask, should I just stick with FreeNAS? My co-workers recommend FreeBSD but they are all power users (I'm not yet).
Thanks for any input.
I'm building my first FreeBSD system from scratch and the motherboard I'm currently thinking of using is the Supermicro X10SRL-F. It supports two SATA DOM drives. If I do use the DOM devices (going for redundancy), I'm wondering if they will be large enough for the FreeBSD boot drive. I'm thinking of the 32GB units. The purpose of this build will be a file server and I'll probably move my Plex server off my aging FreeNAS box as well. I'll have 80TB (8x10TB) of storage using ZFS raidz2. I'll be using just one 1 Gb NIC and maybe upgrade to 10 Gb in the future.
I've read the user guide which recommends at least 8 GB of storage. Is 32 GB plenty? My FreeNAS has 16 GB and I'm getting warning's that it's almost full.
Also, I guess I should ask, should I just stick with FreeNAS? My co-workers recommend FreeBSD but they are all power users (I'm not yet).
Thanks for any input.
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