First Nas Box

[oumpa31]

I am creating my first nas box and i am trying to find out the best way to set this up so i can upgrade as i have the money.

I have (2) 3 tb, (2) 750 gig, (2)320 gig drives.

This will be going into an asus M4A78T-E motherboard with an AMD Phenom II X4 955 Quad Core with 12 gigs of DDR3 ram (non) ecc. I know i should use ecc ram and have hd's that match but i want to build this and upgrade as i can afford to.

I will be putting this together in the next few days and i am wondering how easy it is to add storage to an existing ZFS system or if i should set this up with the older file system? The plan is to go to at least (6) 4 tb wd red drives down the road.

What is the best way to set this up so as i have the money i can replace 2 drives at a time with the 4 tb drives? Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Ericloewe]

I am creating my first nas box and i am trying to find out the best way to set this up so i can upgrade as i have the money.

I have (2) 3 tb, (2) 750 gig, (2)320 gig drives.

This will be going into an asus M4A78T-E motherboard with an AMD Phenom II X4 955 Quad Core with 12 gigs of DDR3 ram (non) ecc. I know i should use ecc ram and have hd's that match but i want to build this and upgrade as i can afford to.

I will be putting this together in the next few days and i am wondering how easy it is to add storage to an existing ZFS system or if i should set this up with the older file system? The plan is to go to at least (6) 4 tb wd red drives down the road.

What is the best way to set this up so as i have the money i can replace 2 drives at a time with the 4 tb drives? Any help will be appreciated.

I recommend you read Cyberjock's guide. Link is in my sig.

 

[oumpa31]

Your sig???

 

[Ericloewe]

Your sig???

My signature. This is the link if you can't see the signature:

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...ning-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/

 

[cyberjock]

Yep.. read my presentation. You're going to find you have lots of hurdles ahead of you.

 

[oumpa31]

Ok thanks guys.

Done a tun with building towers and stuff like that but this is my first run at a NAS. I have tuns of movies and music that i want to be able to stream throughout my house. So i will be reading tons. lol