It cost me only $25 CDN, and was an as-is, untested part so I took a chance on it. I had originally wanted to buy an LSI 9211-8i or an IBM M1015 card, but I came across a great deal on a Dell PERC H200 on eBay. Many would argue that a good storage build is focused around a good storage controller card.
This likely meant I’d be required to do a custom build from scratch. Some of the points above very rarely go hand-in-hand like “inexpensive” and “Xeon” or “Proper server-grade” and “quiet”.
Preferably a Xeon based system and not an Atom or Avaton.Enough PCI-E expandability for a SAS card as well as a 10Gb NIC or Fiberchannel HBA in the future.Using proper server-grade hardware with error correcting (ECC) memory.My goal was to bring something online that was: Over the years, I have used it in several capacities, including as a virtual machine, on consumer grade hardware and more recently as a virtual machine with PCI pass-through of SAS and network devices.Īfter the recent overhaul of my home lab, I decided that it would be a good time to build a ‘semi-proper’ FreeNAS box that feels more like a permanent fixture. Admittedly, I use only a fraction of what this powerful FreeBSD based solution is cable of, but I’ve always found it to be very reliable and it has met my needs. Since the early iterations of my home lab, I’ve been using FreeNAS for shared storage.
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