Archaniel
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- Jun 9, 2016
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Hi guys,
I'm new here and try to build my first FreeNAS file storage server. I want a fast, reliable server able to stream Plex, while able to read/write at last at speeds of 40-50MB/s.
Eventually I'd like to use the same box with dual-booting Windows Media Center to push some BluRay 3D's through HDMI directly to telly (not being able to access the drives though, because encryption etc) - but this is just an optional idea, which I will discuss later.
My current thoughts are:
Supermicro X11SAE-M board
Pentium G4400 CPU (has AES-NI and ECC support)
2x8GB ECC Unbuffered RAM (Crucial or Kingston? - I read Kingston does not work well with Supermicro somewhere?)
2x 3TB WD Red Nasware 3.0 (already bought) drives in ZFS mirror raid, full disk encryption - for photo storage and sensitive docs I don't like to loose + some Bacula backups
1x 3TB "reused" drive - just for movies, and some disposable junk
1x 120GB M.2 SSD for cache (Adata - some cheap stuff prolly)
some old 2.5" 500GB HDD's I have - just for some extra storage of junk
USB-booting of FreeNAS
My question is - what's the fuss about X11SAE-M ? All people want to use it as a "workstation". My question is WHY? It has ECC support, 8x SATA3 support - isn't it good for storage? Is it due Xeon support? Ain't the Pentium G4400 quite enough for storage?
I understand I can run Plex in a jail to read all my movies I'll have on that single 3TB drive and stream and even maybe transcode up to 4K (if needed, direct play of 4K should be no problem with 16GB RAM and that G4400)
Also, will I get the requested read/write speeds? Ofc the box will be hooked to a GBIT network
optional thoughts:
Now regarding that WinMedia center - One thought I had was having a BluRay drive in the box to play BD-3D movies directly (and BD3D ISO images for example) directly to my telly - not yet sure if it works, need to somehow get to test it - maybe with nVidia 3DTV play (which would require hooking up a supported nvidia card to the Motherboard). But I was considering installing ESXi on the box, while piping directly the nVidia card out to the WMC and the drives directly to the FreeNAS VM. I think it could somehow work, but question is if it's feasible. Only reason, really, is BD3D playback... - did anyone here try to do such thing? It means also that the storage box would have to be connected via HDMI to the telly...
thanks for the insights
I'm new here and try to build my first FreeNAS file storage server. I want a fast, reliable server able to stream Plex, while able to read/write at last at speeds of 40-50MB/s.
Eventually I'd like to use the same box with dual-booting Windows Media Center to push some BluRay 3D's through HDMI directly to telly (not being able to access the drives though, because encryption etc) - but this is just an optional idea, which I will discuss later.
My current thoughts are:
Supermicro X11SAE-M board
Pentium G4400 CPU (has AES-NI and ECC support)
2x8GB ECC Unbuffered RAM (Crucial or Kingston? - I read Kingston does not work well with Supermicro somewhere?)
2x 3TB WD Red Nasware 3.0 (already bought) drives in ZFS mirror raid, full disk encryption - for photo storage and sensitive docs I don't like to loose + some Bacula backups
1x 3TB "reused" drive - just for movies, and some disposable junk
1x 120GB M.2 SSD for cache (Adata - some cheap stuff prolly)
some old 2.5" 500GB HDD's I have - just for some extra storage of junk
USB-booting of FreeNAS
My question is - what's the fuss about X11SAE-M ? All people want to use it as a "workstation". My question is WHY? It has ECC support, 8x SATA3 support - isn't it good for storage? Is it due Xeon support? Ain't the Pentium G4400 quite enough for storage?
I understand I can run Plex in a jail to read all my movies I'll have on that single 3TB drive and stream and even maybe transcode up to 4K (if needed, direct play of 4K should be no problem with 16GB RAM and that G4400)
Also, will I get the requested read/write speeds? Ofc the box will be hooked to a GBIT network
optional thoughts:
Now regarding that WinMedia center - One thought I had was having a BluRay drive in the box to play BD-3D movies directly (and BD3D ISO images for example) directly to my telly - not yet sure if it works, need to somehow get to test it - maybe with nVidia 3DTV play (which would require hooking up a supported nvidia card to the Motherboard). But I was considering installing ESXi on the box, while piping directly the nVidia card out to the WMC and the drives directly to the FreeNAS VM. I think it could somehow work, but question is if it's feasible. Only reason, really, is BD3D playback... - did anyone here try to do such thing? It means also that the storage box would have to be connected via HDMI to the telly...
thanks for the insights