rfvgyhn
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I'm looking at creating a nas for storage only (no plex transcoding or anything) with a raidz2 vdev. I plan to have it store all of my media (movies, music) and in the near future, VMs that will be run on a separate machine.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Storage x4: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($179.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Other x2: Crucial 8GB Single DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 Unbuffered ECC UDIMM 240-Pin Server Memory CT102472BA160B ($90.00)
Other: ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard DDR3 1600/1333/1066 ($279.99)
Total: $1269.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-26 14:25 EST-0500
My questions are mainly in regards to when I start using the nas for vm storage.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Storage x4: Hitachi Deskstar NAS 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($179.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Newegg)
Other x2: Crucial 8GB Single DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL11 Unbuffered ECC UDIMM 240-Pin Server Memory CT102472BA160B ($90.00)
Other: ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard DDR3 1600/1333/1066 ($279.99)
Total: $1269.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-26 14:25 EST-0500
My questions are mainly in regards to when I start using the nas for vm storage.
- First, do these parts all look like they would work well together? Any suggestions?
- I assume the quad core version cpu will be good enough. Does that sound like a correct assumption or should I get the octa core version (or a separate mobo/cpu entirely)?
- I have read that having an ssd for a zil and l2arc can help vm performance (though not as much as maxing system ram). Is that a "plug and play" sort of feature in that I could add it after zpools have been setup and running for a while?
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