I was looking around to find some build and choose one that fit my need. I am still a bit confused, but I have a couple of questions.
Consider that I am testing freenas now on a J1900 and it working quite well with nextcloud/emby/transmission/backups since I am the only one at using it.
I would like a bit more powerful cpu, but not too much to avoid high power consumption. Consider anyway that the number of users will be anyway low, for sure less then 4. And for now the Nas almost always on idle.
One of the build I saw is based on Xeon L5630 and Intel S5500BC. It is interesting from the cheap components price (~70$ on ebay). Does this still make sense? Some of you has an idea on the idle power consumption? Probably a single processor make more sense for my needs. Do you know any comparable settings that can achieve around the same performances, less power consumption and no more than the double in price?
Second question is about HDD, I had in mind to buy 2 disks and use a simple replica, I think is enough for a home NAS, but I was thinking about buying 2 disks from 2 different brands. For example 1x WD RED and 1x Seagate ironwolf. The idea is that this setting will reduce the probability that the disk will fail together. Do you think there are problems with this setting in freenas?
Consider that I am testing freenas now on a J1900 and it working quite well with nextcloud/emby/transmission/backups since I am the only one at using it.
I would like a bit more powerful cpu, but not too much to avoid high power consumption. Consider anyway that the number of users will be anyway low, for sure less then 4. And for now the Nas almost always on idle.
One of the build I saw is based on Xeon L5630 and Intel S5500BC. It is interesting from the cheap components price (~70$ on ebay). Does this still make sense? Some of you has an idea on the idle power consumption? Probably a single processor make more sense for my needs. Do you know any comparable settings that can achieve around the same performances, less power consumption and no more than the double in price?
Second question is about HDD, I had in mind to buy 2 disks and use a simple replica, I think is enough for a home NAS, but I was thinking about buying 2 disks from 2 different brands. For example 1x WD RED and 1x Seagate ironwolf. The idea is that this setting will reduce the probability that the disk will fail together. Do you think there are problems with this setting in freenas?