compunerd81
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- Jul 25, 2018
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First, I would like to thank the awesome community here on FreeNAS I was able to get a lot of good information from posts and resources created and posted here! I have read Cyberjock's PDF as well as the FreeNAS primer and many of the forum posts and feel I am ready to start asking a few questions.
I plan on setting up the drives in a single vDev in RAID-Z2.
Bellow is the build I have come up with based on what I have been reading so far:
CPU: Intel - Xeon E3-1225 V6 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock - C236 WSI Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($207.96 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Memory: 2 x Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($105.60 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Storage: 6 x Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.09 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Case: BitFenix - Phenom Midnight Black Mini ITX Tower Case ($73.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1144.67
An very slightly cheaper alternative to the build which would allow for more RAM using an older Integrated Intel Atom board:
Motherboard: ASRock - C2550D4I Mini ITX Atom C2550 Motherboard ($285.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: 4 x Mushkin - Proline 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($76.67 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Storage: 6 x Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.09 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Case: BitFenix - Phenom Midnight Black Mini ITX Tower Case ($73.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1102.69
So my questions are as follows:
1) Have I totally missed the mark or will this allow me to create a decent FreeNAS server?
2) Am I asking for a world of hurt using the cheap Seagate drives or should I be looking to use WD greens/reds as many recommend?
3) Are the integrated SATA controllers going to cause issues for me down the road? Should I be looking to buy a PCIe controller?
4) What kind of performance trade offs am I making between these two versions? Is 16GB vs 32GB of RAM more meaningful than the processing power of the Zeon E3?
I plan on setting up the drives in a single vDev in RAID-Z2.
Bellow is the build I have come up with based on what I have been reading so far:
CPU: Intel - Xeon E3-1225 V6 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($214.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock - C236 WSI Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard ($207.96 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Memory: 2 x Crucial - 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($105.60 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Storage: 6 x Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.09 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Case: BitFenix - Phenom Midnight Black Mini ITX Tower Case ($73.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1144.67
An very slightly cheaper alternative to the build which would allow for more RAM using an older Integrated Intel Atom board:
Motherboard: ASRock - C2550D4I Mini ITX Atom C2550 Motherboard ($285.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: 4 x Mushkin - Proline 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($76.67 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Storage: 6 x Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.09 @ Newegg Marketplace)
Case: BitFenix - Phenom Midnight Black Mini ITX Tower Case ($73.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1102.69
So my questions are as follows:
1) Have I totally missed the mark or will this allow me to create a decent FreeNAS server?
2) Am I asking for a world of hurt using the cheap Seagate drives or should I be looking to use WD greens/reds as many recommend?
3) Are the integrated SATA controllers going to cause issues for me down the road? Should I be looking to buy a PCIe controller?
4) What kind of performance trade offs am I making between these two versions? Is 16GB vs 32GB of RAM more meaningful than the processing power of the Zeon E3?