As my first processor

[mark andrews]

Hey everyone! How’s it going? I am new And I have a lot of ideas in what I can do with this forum. I would like to run my first part by you and I would to here what you think about it. It will be my first buy for a budget NAS.

Intel Xeon X5650 Westmere 2.66 GHz 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 95W BX80614X5650 Server Processor

I feel it meets most of the requirements for a NAS build. In hoping you thi

 

[Jailer]

It's going to take little more hardware besides just a CPU to put your NAS together...........

 

[Stux]

More important to pick a motherboard first really.

Westmere is a fine CPU, but power hungry.

 

[Chris Moore]

Hey everyone! How’s it going? I am new And I have a lot of ideas in what I can do with this forum. I would like to run my first part by you and I would to here what you think about it. It will be my first buy for a budget NAS.

Intel Xeon X5650 Westmere 2.66 GHz 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 95W BX80614X5650 Server Processor

I feel it meets most of the requirements for a NAS build. In hoping you thi

It would be better to tell us what you want to be able to do with your NAS including the amount of usable storage you need and your goal budget; then ask for suggestions on hardware. There are a lot of people here with experience and somebody will be able to guide you in making good selections.

 

[mark andrews]

Ok. Let me start over. What I would like to do with FreeNAS is build I little home unit so that myself and family have a a place to store pictures, videos, music, or whatever they want on a network that is accessible to everyone on the network. In a way share files. I think it’s a interesting idea. Let’s take music as an example, if everyone on the network stores music then everyone on the network has access, at least that’s how I understand it.

I am new and there is a lot I don’t understand yet. I have read the little slide show that was on the forum and I got a lot of useful info from it. Basically how not to truly waste my time with with things that are sub par or not work at all for a FreeNAS. I mean really, I don’t want to go through all this and lose my stuff time and money.

I picked this prosseser for it’s affordable and meets basic requirements. Multi core, ok speed, supports 64bit computing and supports ECC. Now I have been doing a lot of research to find the parts that I feel that are good and have room to grow if needed. I’m hoping that I can use this forum for things that I don’t understand like software support. I’m going to start small. I’m not rich. It’s going to take some time and in the process I’m hoping to learn a lot. Maybe if I succeed I will build another as a mirror. At least that’s how I understand it.

 

[Chris Moore]

It isn't a bad choice, but choice of the CPU is usually not first on the list.
How much storage do you require?
How much are you spending, total?
I can suggest some great used equipment from eBay if you'reinterested.

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[mark andrews]

I am open for suggestions. I am sorry for coming off like I know. I have a few ideas, but sure I would like to here yours. I picked a 5 bay 3.5 drive case so I’m looking at 4 storage and 1 operating system. I don’t want to make the full investment until I learn more about the operating system so I will most likely start with one or two vdev striped and if I could mirror them that would be grate.
Let me know if this is as all possible or if this is to small for the operating system I don’t plan to zpool intel I have 2 vdev?

The board and the case are Form factor atx With what I picked. $170 board is used and case is new. Kind of cheap from what’s out there

 

[mark andrews]

Before I go any farther I have a few questions.

I was thinking of going with sata 3.0 is this supported in the operating system? Or is it like putting windows xp on a motherboard that supports windows 10?

If it can’t, is sata power the same for sata 3.0 and sata 6.0 hard drives?

I would like to stay way from solid state drives for my first build

I want to thank you for your time!

 

[Chris Moore]

The board and the case are Form factor atx With what I picked.

I don't get it. Maybe there is a language barrier. This makes it sound like you already bought not only the CPU but the Case and System Board also.

If it can’t, is sata power the same for sata 3.0 and sata 6.0 hard drives?

Now you are moving right along to drive controllers. You can't get help if you don't clearly state where you are and wait for the advice to come. If you have already moved on before the volunteer has time to look into your particular situation, then you may as well not ask.

This is the system board I would suggest, because it has IPMI and it should work with the CPU you said you already bought:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro...d-Dual-LGA-1366-Socket-PCI-E-x16/392128878893
It is dual socket, but you can use just one of the two sockets and with the particular processor you bought, you could add a second one just like it in the second socket later if you wanted more power.

For the drive controller, I would suggest a SAS controller, just to get all the drives on a single controller. It works better that way. One SAS controller like this can run up to 256 drives by use of expander controllers. We can talk more about that when you need more drives but this will get you to eight drives to start.

Drive Controller: SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA LSI 9207-8i P20 IT Mode for ZFS FreeNAS unRAID - - US $69.55
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162862201664

Drive Cables: Mini SAS to 4-SATA SFF-8087 Multi-Lane Forward Breakout Internal Cable - - US $12.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/371681252206

I would suggest one of these SSDs for the boot drive, but you can use USB if you want.
These are used data-center drives, but as a boot drive in FreeNAS, it should last as long as the server, if not longer:

Boot drive: Intel SSD DC S3500 Series 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s, 20nm, MLC 80GB - - US $29.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273102509397

Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste Grease Conductive Compound for CPU/GPU - US $6.95
https://www.ebay.com/itm/302624513215

 

[Chris Moore]

PS. As a bonus, with the system board I pointed you at and the processor you said you had, you can use Registered ECC memory that is less expensive right now than regular memory.

 

[mark andrews]

I don't get it. Maybe there is a language barrier. This makes it sound like you already bought not only the CPU but the Case and System Board also.

Now you are moving right along to drive controllers. You can't get help if you don't clearly state where you are and wait for the advice to come. If you have already moved on before the volunteer has time to look into your particular situation, then you may as well not ask.

This is the system board I would suggest, because it has IPMI and it should work with the CPU you said you already bought:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro...d-Dual-LGA-1366-Socket-PCI-E-x16/392128878893
It is dual socket, but you can use just one of the two sockets and with the particular processor you bought, you could add a second one just like it in the second socket later if you wanted more power.

For the drive controller, I would suggest a SAS controller, just to get all the drives on a single controller. It works better that way. One SAS controller like this can run up to 256 drives by use of expander controllers. We can talk more about that when you need more drives but this will get you to eight drives to start.

Drive Controller: SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA LSI 9207-8i P20 IT Mode for ZFS FreeNAS unRAID - - US $69.55
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162862201664

Drive Cables: Mini SAS to 4-SATA SFF-8087 Multi-Lane Forward Breakout Internal Cable - - US $12.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/371681252206

I would suggest one of these SSDs for the boot drive, but you can use USB if you want.
These are used data-center drives, but as a boot drive in FreeNAS, it should last as long as the server, if not longer:

Boot drive: Intel SSD DC S3500 Series 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s, 20nm, MLC 80GB - - US $29.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273102509397

Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste Grease Conductive Compound for CPU/GPU - US $6.95
https://www.ebay.com/itm/302624513215

 

[mark andrews]

No I have not bought anything just looking at spec on the net. I felt it was an important question that have to do with hard drives. I don’t want to buy old stuff if it’s not supported by the operating system

Thanks for the links

 

[Chris Moore]

Old gear is only a problem in that it usually takes more power.
New gear is usually the place where support can be an issue. Then there are certain drive controllers that won't access drives larger than 2TB. The one I suggested is a good one.

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[mark andrews]

Ok give me some time to think about it. I like the ability to expand later on and the prices seem doable. It’s a good starting point!