I plan to build a small, >= 8TB, low power/quiet, easy drive access NAS with device failure lights if possible, and have a few questions:
First of all, is this feasible for under $1k?
Second, have you heard of any good case options to accommodate this?
I'm going with a RAID z2 and want to use 2.5' drives because I've heard they have lower power consumption.. I still need to quantify this. Additionally, until I can set up a better option I will be making frequent read/writes to the NAS, but want to set up a wake on LAN solution to further conserve power in the near future. Will either of these situations affect the NAS negatively?
Cheers
EDIT:
Just saw this thread:
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/so-you-want-some-hardware-suggestions.12276/
I was thinking such a thing would be stickied. Will revise this post as appropriate.
First of all, is this feasible for under $1k?
Second, have you heard of any good case options to accommodate this?
I'm going with a RAID z2 and want to use 2.5' drives because I've heard they have lower power consumption.. I still need to quantify this. Additionally, until I can set up a better option I will be making frequent read/writes to the NAS, but want to set up a wake on LAN solution to further conserve power in the near future. Will either of these situations affect the NAS negatively?
Cheers
EDIT:
Just saw this thread:
http://forums.freenas.org/threads/so-you-want-some-hardware-suggestions.12276/
I was thinking such a thing would be stickied. Will revise this post as appropriate.