tyronebiggums
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Hello all,
After lurking and doing my research, I'm leaning towards going the Dell Poweredge T20 vs. building something from 100% scratch since it appears I can go the Dell route for sub $500 and since it's been 7+ years since I've built a computer of any kind so I'm a bit out of date when it comes to current standards and capabilities. Here is my proposed setup and below are my questions
2. I noticed that there are 2 x SATA 6gb and 2 x SATA 3gb ports on the board. I plan on buying two drives to start with and plan to mirror them, unless otherwise recommended. Should I put one drive on SATA 6gb and one on SATA 3gb or should both of them occupy both the 6gb ports and if I add a second vdev down the road, have the two new drives occupy the 3gb ports?
3. The server comes with 4gb of RAM, does this type of ram have to be installed in pairs? If I buy 2 x 8gb sticks and install them on top of the 4gb, I'd have 20gb of RAM or should I just remove the stock RAM and only go with the 16gb?
4. Is the Pentium G3220 3 GHz that comes with the base model sufficient or do I need the upgraded Xeon? This is going to be a basic home NAS storing your typical movies, photos, documents, etc. with one, perhaps two users. I plan on installing Plex and perhaps down the road Owncloud and to be able to backup my stuff to the server from a remote location. I'm not a FreeBSD/Linux/Unix guru so I don't plan on doing any crazy stuff with this.
Thanks for looking and helping out this noob!
After lurking and doing my research, I'm leaning towards going the Dell Poweredge T20 vs. building something from 100% scratch since it appears I can go the Dell route for sub $500 and since it's been 7+ years since I've built a computer of any kind so I'm a bit out of date when it comes to current standards and capabilities. Here is my proposed setup and below are my questions
- OS: 2 x SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive
- Chassis: 1 x Dell Poweredge T20
- Power Supply: stock 290W that comes with server
- Motherboard: stock that comes with server
- CPU: 1 x Pentium G3220 3 GHz
- RAM: 2 x Crucial
8GB DDR3 PC3-14900 Unbuffered ECC 1.5V - HDD: 2 x WD Red, size TBD
2. I noticed that there are 2 x SATA 6gb and 2 x SATA 3gb ports on the board. I plan on buying two drives to start with and plan to mirror them, unless otherwise recommended. Should I put one drive on SATA 6gb and one on SATA 3gb or should both of them occupy both the 6gb ports and if I add a second vdev down the road, have the two new drives occupy the 3gb ports?
3. The server comes with 4gb of RAM, does this type of ram have to be installed in pairs? If I buy 2 x 8gb sticks and install them on top of the 4gb, I'd have 20gb of RAM or should I just remove the stock RAM and only go with the 16gb?
4. Is the Pentium G3220 3 GHz that comes with the base model sufficient or do I need the upgraded Xeon? This is going to be a basic home NAS storing your typical movies, photos, documents, etc. with one, perhaps two users. I plan on installing Plex and perhaps down the road Owncloud and to be able to backup my stuff to the server from a remote location. I'm not a FreeBSD/Linux/Unix guru so I don't plan on doing any crazy stuff with this.
Thanks for looking and helping out this noob!