Re: 100TB storage recommendation
On 2/12/2025 18:56, lina wrote:
I have 100TB data, that I hope to be connected from my Debian desktop,
Any small server recommendation, most important, debian-friendly for me
to maintain.
Thanks so much ...
Others have covered the basics, so I'll try to add some extra thoughts:
1. Important question to ask - what network performance do you expect?
Working with 100GB of data at 1Gbit speeds is going to to be painful.
2. Redundancy and filesystem matter. After many years of running ext3/4
on top of mdraid, I moved to ZFS in the end. Combining the redundancy
aspect and volume management into one tool makes it very flexible and
easy to work with. It's feature rich and very mature.
3. I fully concur Supermicro is a good option. Look one e-Bay, their
chassis are well built and older models can be had reasonably cheaply
(for high quality server gear).
Be aware: Their rackmount servers are loud. If it needs to sit in your
lounge, this is not a good option.
If you need to build something that has to live in the house and not
make your family hate you, this is what I recommend:
* Silverstone DS380 case -
https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/DS380/
- It's compact, has great airflow over the drives, and it looks
decent. 8x Hot swap 3.5" bays, 4x 2.5" internal bays, room for big quiet
Noctua fans.
* Disks: I would use 8x18TB and configure ZFS with a raidz2 (analogous
to RAID6). That will give 108TB (98TiB usable). Add two cheap 2.5" SSDs
for the ARC (read cache).
* Motherboard: Depends on how much CPU power you need. I used this one:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/a2sdi-h-tp4f
- It's a proper server board, so has proper BMC/IPMI
- It has 10Gbit SFP+ and 10Gbit RJ45 onboard
- It has 12 SATA ports and 1x NVMe
- 16-core Atom C3000 SOC - plenty for a NAS and a bunch of containers.
The only downsides:
- It's pricey. There are lesser models (fewer cores, no SPF+) available
- the PCIe slot is only 4x, but since the board has all the netowrk
and SATA you need, this is not that important.
This is quite an old board by now, and there are a lot of new options.
Have a look at these and filter for mini-ITX
- https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboards/server-boards
- https://www.asrockrack.com/general/products.asp#Server
I have used several boards from both brands before - all with Debian -
no problems.
Good luck
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