After a devastating crash of one of my hard drives which contained personal photos and videos and some entertainment media like movies and music, I'm now looking into making my digital files more organized this time. The reason I can't and did not backup my media files is that they are mostly reproducable with cost in time and money of course. More importantly, it's not just practical to backup terrabytes of data using terrabytes of data again. I can't justify the cost to our in-house financial controller, my wife. So I've read around and find FreeNAS really appealing to me. In fact, I'm only a click or two away to purchase the following:
1. Supermicro ATX DDR3 1600 LGA 1150 Motherboards X10SAE-O,
2. Kingston Technology ValueRAM 4GB 1333MHz DDR3L ECC CL9 DIMM SR x8 1.35V with TS Desktop Memory KVR13LE9S8/4
3. Intel Pentium Processor G3258(3M Cache, 3.20 GHz)
4. 4x4tb of WD Red
5. Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB SSD for SLOG and L2ARC,
6. Seasonic P-520FL Platinum 520W Full Modular Power Supply
7. UPS (any recomendations?)
The only turn-off for me is that I can't expand it by adding a disk now and then. For this, I'm looking into SnapRAID. It is billed supposedly as the ideal system for large media files that rarely change. My question is, for a basic user like me, who will mostly just store pictures and movies in the server which will seldom be read and most likely will never be edited.
I intend to use the server as 1. Repository of my and my wife's documents, 2. Backup storage of our photos and home videos, and 3. Storage/ transcode media files like TV Series, Movies and some music. For the movies, I think this will be the most used feature as my kids watch their educational shows every morning as they aren't allowed to watch cable at the moment. For the movies again, I think it will peak to up to 3 or for users but I'm sure this will be very rare (just in case we'll visitors, just like my sisters and parents).
Just to be clear, I am really into buying the above hardware. But just to be sure I want to seek guidance from the professionals like you guys.
1. Is my choice of hardware good enough?
2. Will I benefit from deploying a powerful server hardware and FreeNAS for my use case?
3. If I decide to use SnapRAID instead, will it benefit from the ECC RAM that I will be using?
4. With the above hardware running 24/7, how much watts will it be using per day?
Thank you in advance for your advice.
1. Supermicro ATX DDR3 1600 LGA 1150 Motherboards X10SAE-O,
2. Kingston Technology ValueRAM 4GB 1333MHz DDR3L ECC CL9 DIMM SR x8 1.35V with TS Desktop Memory KVR13LE9S8/4
3. Intel Pentium Processor G3258(3M Cache, 3.20 GHz)
4. 4x4tb of WD Red
5. Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB SSD for SLOG and L2ARC,
6. Seasonic P-520FL Platinum 520W Full Modular Power Supply
7. UPS (any recomendations?)
The only turn-off for me is that I can't expand it by adding a disk now and then. For this, I'm looking into SnapRAID. It is billed supposedly as the ideal system for large media files that rarely change. My question is, for a basic user like me, who will mostly just store pictures and movies in the server which will seldom be read and most likely will never be edited.
I intend to use the server as 1. Repository of my and my wife's documents, 2. Backup storage of our photos and home videos, and 3. Storage/ transcode media files like TV Series, Movies and some music. For the movies, I think this will be the most used feature as my kids watch their educational shows every morning as they aren't allowed to watch cable at the moment. For the movies again, I think it will peak to up to 3 or for users but I'm sure this will be very rare (just in case we'll visitors, just like my sisters and parents).
Just to be clear, I am really into buying the above hardware. But just to be sure I want to seek guidance from the professionals like you guys.
1. Is my choice of hardware good enough?
2. Will I benefit from deploying a powerful server hardware and FreeNAS for my use case?
3. If I decide to use SnapRAID instead, will it benefit from the ECC RAM that I will be using?
4. With the above hardware running 24/7, how much watts will it be using per day?
Thank you in advance for your advice.
