SundayNinja
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- Jun 28, 2014
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Hello,
I am planning to setup my own NAS for home entertainment. I choose the following parts:
- ASRock 350M1 (CPU: AMD E-350, 2x 1.6 Ghz, 2x 512kb Cache) with Gigabyte Ethernet
- 16 GB G.Skill Ares DDR3-1866 DIMM CL1 Dual (the Mobo will reduce frequency to 1033 MHz)
- 2x 3TB Seagate NAS HDD ST3000VN000
The reason I chose this Mobo because I am really concerned about power consumption. But now I am curious to know whether this setup is enough to do the following:
1. Run FreeNAS efficiently on a home network containing 6 iOS devices and a 46 inch TV, and three Windows laptops.
2. Arrange my HDDs in RAID-1 using FreeNAS own filesystem (I think it is called ZFS) efficiently. Please note that my Mobo does not have a RAID controller therefor I must use FreeNAS to do the job.
3. Will I be able to do video transcoding? e.g. use FreeNAS to stream XVid to my iPad.
4. The Mobo has one PCIe 2.0 socket, in future I may install a RAID-controller, will it be supported by FreeNAS?
I am still a beginner to FreeNAS and currently learning it so please excuse my ignorance! Any help/advice is extremely appreciated!
Cheers
I am planning to setup my own NAS for home entertainment. I choose the following parts:
- ASRock 350M1 (CPU: AMD E-350, 2x 1.6 Ghz, 2x 512kb Cache) with Gigabyte Ethernet
- 16 GB G.Skill Ares DDR3-1866 DIMM CL1 Dual (the Mobo will reduce frequency to 1033 MHz)
- 2x 3TB Seagate NAS HDD ST3000VN000
The reason I chose this Mobo because I am really concerned about power consumption. But now I am curious to know whether this setup is enough to do the following:
1. Run FreeNAS efficiently on a home network containing 6 iOS devices and a 46 inch TV, and three Windows laptops.
2. Arrange my HDDs in RAID-1 using FreeNAS own filesystem (I think it is called ZFS) efficiently. Please note that my Mobo does not have a RAID controller therefor I must use FreeNAS to do the job.
3. Will I be able to do video transcoding? e.g. use FreeNAS to stream XVid to my iPad.
4. The Mobo has one PCIe 2.0 socket, in future I may install a RAID-controller, will it be supported by FreeNAS?
I am still a beginner to FreeNAS and currently learning it so please excuse my ignorance! Any help/advice is extremely appreciated!
Cheers