Hi all.
My boss asked me to build a cheap NAS with highest possible volume. It's gonna be used mainly as video archive, and occasionally 1 or 2 people might stream some of the videos for use in editing on a local workstation.
It's not critical to have very high transfer rates or 24/7 up-time, keeping the archive safe is the number one concern, along with affordability.
I was thinking about going with this:
14x Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB
8 of them running off of a IBM ServeRAID M1015 (with 2 mini SAS SFF 8087 -> 4x Sata cables)
6 of them running off of the MSI Z68A-G43 motherboard.
Core i3 I3-2120
Kingston ValueRAM 2 x 4 GB
Fractal Design Define XL (with 3x 5.25->3.5 adapters + the one adapter included by Fractal)
The OS will run off of a
Transcend JetFlash 770 - 8 GB
connected internally with a
Akasa AK-CBUB06-60BK
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 + some molex->sata cables.
Can I expect any problems with having some HDDs on the IBM controller, and others on the MB - or is this just totally gonna work? :)
I haven't decided the raid configuration yet, would it be best to have a 14 drive RAIDZ2 ("Raid 6"), or 2x 7 drive RaidZ spanned ("Raid 50") - both for a total of 36 TiB useable space?
Apreciate your inputs.
My boss asked me to build a cheap NAS with highest possible volume. It's gonna be used mainly as video archive, and occasionally 1 or 2 people might stream some of the videos for use in editing on a local workstation.
It's not critical to have very high transfer rates or 24/7 up-time, keeping the archive safe is the number one concern, along with affordability.
I was thinking about going with this:
14x Seagate ST3000DM001 3TB
8 of them running off of a IBM ServeRAID M1015 (with 2 mini SAS SFF 8087 -> 4x Sata cables)
6 of them running off of the MSI Z68A-G43 motherboard.
Core i3 I3-2120
Kingston ValueRAM 2 x 4 GB
Fractal Design Define XL (with 3x 5.25->3.5 adapters + the one adapter included by Fractal)
The OS will run off of a
Transcend JetFlash 770 - 8 GB
connected internally with a
Akasa AK-CBUB06-60BK
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 + some molex->sata cables.
Can I expect any problems with having some HDDs on the IBM controller, and others on the MB - or is this just totally gonna work? :)
I haven't decided the raid configuration yet, would it be best to have a 14 drive RAIDZ2 ("Raid 6"), or 2x 7 drive RaidZ spanned ("Raid 50") - both for a total of 36 TiB useable space?
Apreciate your inputs.