Saxito Pau
Dabbler
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- Dec 4, 2016
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So I've decided to share my history of using FreeNAS.
Started about 4 years go and was being cheap at the time, so this was the build:
I used a 4TB external hard drive for occasional manual backup (straight copy and paste over network from a windows PC)
It worked well for my growing Plex anime and media library not to mention all the software, ISOs, personal data, image files, etc. and my IP camera footage.
Three years later, I wanted something more powerful, so I went with this at the start of this year, keeping the case and drives:
And now my JUST completed build (almost according to forum specs!) is as follows:
Do critique...
(PS: If there are any DOTA players here, my user name is the same )
Started about 4 years go and was being cheap at the time, so this was the build:
- Cooler Master Elite 120 with a HDD by where the CD drive would go.
- Intel DQ45EK ITX motherboard (US$45 on amazon)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 (dual core 2.2 GHz)
- 4GB DDR2 RAM I had lying around
- 4 2TB desktop drives, each drive as its own pool
- PC Power & Cooling Silencer Series 400 Watt
- Kingston 8GB flash drive to boot up
I used a 4TB external hard drive for occasional manual backup (straight copy and paste over network from a windows PC)
It worked well for my growing Plex anime and media library not to mention all the software, ISOs, personal data, image files, etc. and my IP camera footage.
Three years later, I wanted something more powerful, so I went with this at the start of this year, keeping the case and drives:
- Cooler Master Elite 120 with a HDD by where the CD drive would go.
- Jetway NF9E-Q77 Mini-ITX Motherboard
- Intel Core i5-3450
- 8GB Laptop DDR3 RAM I had lying around
- 4 2TB desktop drives, each drive as its own pool (2 drives began to fail and were replaced with NAS drives during this time)
- PC Power & Cooling Silencer Series 400 Watt
- Kingston 8GB flash drive to boot up
And now my JUST completed build (almost according to forum specs!) is as follows:
- SuperMicro X9SCM-F (US$100 new off ebay, steal of a deal I got!)
- Intel Xeon E3-1225 v2 (quad core 3.2 GHz, US$90 used on ebay)
- Crucial 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) DDR3L-1600 ECC (US$122 direct from Crucial)
- 2 x 3TB Seagate NAS drives, mirrored
- 1 x 4TB Seagate NAS drive, single drive pool
- 1 x 3TB Seagate Desktop drive, single drive pool
- 1 x Sandisk U100 16GB SSD as the boot drive
- Fractal Design Define Mini (US$74 + US$50 shipping to Trinidad and Tobago! cheapest option online)
- PC Power & Cooling Silencer Series 400 Watt (still going strong!)
- Ended up switching to SSD as boot due to an odd issue recently where after setting my SSD to store jails, if I rebooted, FreeNAS would get confused and think the SSD is the boot drive instead of the flash drive and corrupt the SSD after a reboot. After some research, I just went SSD as the boot drive, no issues since.
- My only error was not burning in the NAS drives before installation, my 4TB External USB has a backup of the most essential stuff though.
- I have a drive to replace again, still deciding if I even need that 5th drive.
Do critique...
(PS: If there are any DOTA players here, my user name is the same )