hypercoffeedude
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Potential FreeNAS Build
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Mainboard: Supermicro Micro ATX DDR4 LGA 1151 Motherboards X11SSM-F-O
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 V6 (Kaby Lake) (BX80677E31240V6)
RAM: Samsung 16GB DDR4-2400 ECC UDIMM (M391A2K43BB1-CRC)
HDD: 6x WD Red 4TB - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 GB/S 64 MB Cache (WD40EFRX)
Case: Fractal Design Node 804 (FD-CA-NODE-804-BL)
PSU: SeaSonic G Series 550-Watt (SSR-550RM)
Boot Drive: SanDisk SSD PLUS 120GB (SDSSDA-120G-G26)
UPS: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD
Hey everyone, thanks for joining me here. Based on many recommendations seen here, and a decent amount oof research and manual reading, I have decided to finally prepare to build a NAS due to my increasingly large amounts of data being stored without much in the way of redundancy. Up until now, I have been using WD MyBookLive and MyCloud drives, and while these have worked very well for me so far, I cringe every time I think about future drive failures. They currently don't see a great amount of active use, and so I've gotten many successful years from them. It's high time to get responsible and build a proper storage solution so I don't wake up one day to find my data has poofed into oblivion.
I will be using my FreeNAS box for a few things. I am a hobby photographer so I'll be storing photos (About 30,000+ RAWs and counting). I shoot lots of video, 1080p - 4K, and need to stash that somewhere. Linux ISOs, DVDs (mkv) and other junk as well will need to live there. I'd like to run a Plex server with it's DVR functions, and use it along with my HDHomerun devices. My set up needs to be powerful enough to handle up to 3 active recordings, while also serving media to 2-3 devices.
- I am thinking of configuring it as RAIDz2 with 6 WD Reds.
- If I'm correct, I am expecting to get approx 16Tb usable.
- Starting with 16Gb RAM, will add another 16Gb soon after if needed.
- I really need a sanity check to make sure all my components are compatable.
I have read that this mainboard is compatible with this CPU, but only after a BIOS upgrade? I'd hate to get the system built only to find out I can't use the processor until upgrading BIOS, and not being able to upgrade without a working CPU.
Is there anything else I am forgetting? Is there anything wrong with this setup or else any other advice I should head? I will be buying the parts slowly over the next few months and to get the max warranty from the drives, I'll grab those last. I also have access to educational discounts which I've noticed brings the price of each HDD down to $119.99 (WD Edu Store).
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Mainboard: Supermicro Micro ATX DDR4 LGA 1151 Motherboards X11SSM-F-O
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 V6 (Kaby Lake) (BX80677E31240V6)
RAM: Samsung 16GB DDR4-2400 ECC UDIMM (M391A2K43BB1-CRC)
HDD: 6x WD Red 4TB - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 GB/S 64 MB Cache (WD40EFRX)
Case: Fractal Design Node 804 (FD-CA-NODE-804-BL)
PSU: SeaSonic G Series 550-Watt (SSR-550RM)
Boot Drive: SanDisk SSD PLUS 120GB (SDSSDA-120G-G26)
UPS: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD
Hey everyone, thanks for joining me here. Based on many recommendations seen here, and a decent amount oof research and manual reading, I have decided to finally prepare to build a NAS due to my increasingly large amounts of data being stored without much in the way of redundancy. Up until now, I have been using WD MyBookLive and MyCloud drives, and while these have worked very well for me so far, I cringe every time I think about future drive failures. They currently don't see a great amount of active use, and so I've gotten many successful years from them. It's high time to get responsible and build a proper storage solution so I don't wake up one day to find my data has poofed into oblivion.
I will be using my FreeNAS box for a few things. I am a hobby photographer so I'll be storing photos (About 30,000+ RAWs and counting). I shoot lots of video, 1080p - 4K, and need to stash that somewhere. Linux ISOs, DVDs (mkv) and other junk as well will need to live there. I'd like to run a Plex server with it's DVR functions, and use it along with my HDHomerun devices. My set up needs to be powerful enough to handle up to 3 active recordings, while also serving media to 2-3 devices.
- I am thinking of configuring it as RAIDz2 with 6 WD Reds.
- If I'm correct, I am expecting to get approx 16Tb usable.
- Starting with 16Gb RAM, will add another 16Gb soon after if needed.
- I really need a sanity check to make sure all my components are compatable.
I have read that this mainboard is compatible with this CPU, but only after a BIOS upgrade? I'd hate to get the system built only to find out I can't use the processor until upgrading BIOS, and not being able to upgrade without a working CPU.
Is there anything else I am forgetting? Is there anything wrong with this setup or else any other advice I should head? I will be buying the parts slowly over the next few months and to get the max warranty from the drives, I'll grab those last. I also have access to educational discounts which I've noticed brings the price of each HDD down to $119.99 (WD Edu Store).