Hi, I'm setting up a home server that will store a large amount of data and used in video production for a home business (1 user, but accessed from multiple machines at different times). I am currently using an external 6TB G drive that is being backed up on to another computer on the network... when I remember. This is clearly not ideal, and I would like something with more redundancy (I will still be doing regular backups).
I am currently playing around running FreeNAS on an old amd system that only has one drive in it, but after a lot of research I have ordered new parts to put together a new system.
The specs are:
Supermicro Ultra ATX DDR3 1600 LGA 1150 Motherboard X10SLM-F-O (closest match I could find on the supermicro site was X10SLM+-F)
Fractal Design Node 804 Case
Intel Pentium G3240 Haswell Dual-Core 3.1 GHz LGA CPU
CORSAIR CX series CX430 430W power supply
Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory (this will be upgraded to 2x8GB and 2x4GB before any real use.. I am just waiting on a check to clear)
No hard drives yet, but I am planning to use 3x4TB drives to start and expand down the line as money permits. (I understand that I may have to rebuild to get everything to work optimally). I will be using some old drives to play around with configurations and test different setups for now, but I will be upgrading to NAS drives before production use.
This is just the build I am starting with and I plan on doing a lot of testing on this before I actually put it into production. I got the idea to use a NAS from a company I worked at where their IT guy used a NAS to allow the small group of editors to edit HD video and it worked fairly well. It would have worked much better if he had used a file system that allowed OSX to search the drive... (I already tested this with FreeNAS using AFP and it works great).
Anyway, I have a few questions that I couldn't really find any answers on.
1) What would be the optimal configuration if I'm going to primarily be using this for video editing?Is ZFS the best option?
2) Can I set up a trash system for AFP like I can for CIF? I can't find anything on this and I would really like to have some kind of protection against accidentally deleting files.
3) I'm pretty sure I will need to upgrade my storage at some point in the future. Would it be better to just back everything up (to at least two different locations) and rebuild the Zpool/VDev with all the drives, or just add another Vdev to the Zpool? Since I have only been running one drive, I have not had a chance to mess around with this yet.
4) I read somewhere that it is now best to boot from a small hard drive or SSD instead of a USB drive, but I can't find it again. Is this true?
I'm sure I will have more questions in the future. If I have asked anything thaty is covered elsewhere, please point me in the right direction.
If anyone has used FreeNAS for a similar job, I would love to hear any advice you might have.
Thanks!
I am currently playing around running FreeNAS on an old amd system that only has one drive in it, but after a lot of research I have ordered new parts to put together a new system.
The specs are:
Supermicro Ultra ATX DDR3 1600 LGA 1150 Motherboard X10SLM-F-O (closest match I could find on the supermicro site was X10SLM+-F)
Fractal Design Node 804 Case
Intel Pentium G3240 Haswell Dual-Core 3.1 GHz LGA CPU
CORSAIR CX series CX430 430W power supply
Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory (this will be upgraded to 2x8GB and 2x4GB before any real use.. I am just waiting on a check to clear)
No hard drives yet, but I am planning to use 3x4TB drives to start and expand down the line as money permits. (I understand that I may have to rebuild to get everything to work optimally). I will be using some old drives to play around with configurations and test different setups for now, but I will be upgrading to NAS drives before production use.
This is just the build I am starting with and I plan on doing a lot of testing on this before I actually put it into production. I got the idea to use a NAS from a company I worked at where their IT guy used a NAS to allow the small group of editors to edit HD video and it worked fairly well. It would have worked much better if he had used a file system that allowed OSX to search the drive... (I already tested this with FreeNAS using AFP and it works great).
Anyway, I have a few questions that I couldn't really find any answers on.
1) What would be the optimal configuration if I'm going to primarily be using this for video editing?Is ZFS the best option?
2) Can I set up a trash system for AFP like I can for CIF? I can't find anything on this and I would really like to have some kind of protection against accidentally deleting files.
3) I'm pretty sure I will need to upgrade my storage at some point in the future. Would it be better to just back everything up (to at least two different locations) and rebuild the Zpool/VDev with all the drives, or just add another Vdev to the Zpool? Since I have only been running one drive, I have not had a chance to mess around with this yet.
4) I read somewhere that it is now best to boot from a small hard drive or SSD instead of a USB drive, but I can't find it again. Is this true?
I'm sure I will have more questions in the future. If I have asked anything thaty is covered elsewhere, please point me in the right direction.
If anyone has used FreeNAS for a similar job, I would love to hear any advice you might have.
Thanks!