I'd like to set up a NAS (for multimedia and backup) with old components I still have lying around:
* an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mobo with 4 gigs of RAM (this has a PCIe)
* an Athlon 64 3000 CPU
* an old ATX tower with a 450W power supply
* a whole bunch of old drives
I also bought a Highpoint RocketRAID 2720SGL 8-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS/SATA RAID Controller (which, according to one thread here, should work with FreeNAS) with 2 miniSAS to 4 SATA cables.
Now here are my questions:
* could I just add a bunch of drives internally (I first thought about an external enclosure, but those are expensive too - and I really don't see what the big deal is about NOT being able to hot-swap drives)?
* will I have enough power for all (possibly 8) drives?
* does anybody know where I could find INTERNAL enclosures? My current tower will hold 4 drives, but what if I wanted to add 4 more? I certainly have anough space in it, but I don't seem to be able to find any of those. Maybe I'm using the wrong word?
* any other suggestions for the (hard/software) configuration?
Thanks much,
-Stephan
* an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mobo with 4 gigs of RAM (this has a PCIe)
* an Athlon 64 3000 CPU
* an old ATX tower with a 450W power supply
* a whole bunch of old drives
I also bought a Highpoint RocketRAID 2720SGL 8-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS/SATA RAID Controller (which, according to one thread here, should work with FreeNAS) with 2 miniSAS to 4 SATA cables.
Now here are my questions:
* could I just add a bunch of drives internally (I first thought about an external enclosure, but those are expensive too - and I really don't see what the big deal is about NOT being able to hot-swap drives)?
* will I have enough power for all (possibly 8) drives?
* does anybody know where I could find INTERNAL enclosures? My current tower will hold 4 drives, but what if I wanted to add 4 more? I certainly have anough space in it, but I don't seem to be able to find any of those. Maybe I'm using the wrong word?
* any other suggestions for the (hard/software) configuration?
Thanks much,
-Stephan