I recently bought an N40L cheaply. List of hardware.
It's just been sitting there collecting dust, because I'm not sure how it would handle Freenas with ZFS. So I decided to come here and ask you good folks.
I've briefly tried Freenas and Amahi, without a RAID, and I'm very tempted to go with Freenas with ZFS and preferably with encryption.
I intend to use 5x3GB WD Red drives in RAID 5 or RAID-Z. Am I correct in understanding that I'd need 2x8GB RAM? Would 4GB+8GB suffice (it would cost me half as much since I already have a 4GB stick)? Is the frequency of any significance?
If I was to use ZFS with encryption, would the CPU be able to handle it? Roughly how much would the performance decrease? (are we talking 5% or 50%) Would the CPU be the bottle neck?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
It's just been sitting there collecting dust, because I'm not sure how it would handle Freenas with ZFS. So I decided to come here and ask you good folks.
I've briefly tried Freenas and Amahi, without a RAID, and I'm very tempted to go with Freenas with ZFS and preferably with encryption.
I intend to use 5x3GB WD Red drives in RAID 5 or RAID-Z. Am I correct in understanding that I'd need 2x8GB RAM? Would 4GB+8GB suffice (it would cost me half as much since I already have a 4GB stick)? Is the frequency of any significance?
If I was to use ZFS with encryption, would the CPU be able to handle it? Roughly how much would the performance decrease? (are we talking 5% or 50%) Would the CPU be the bottle neck?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!