Greetings from Canada.

[DeltaOscarMike]

Just dropping a line to say Hello and give a shout out to the Community who develop and support FreeNAS OS.

I'm looking to replace my unRAID setup. And decided that FreeNAS will be my final Solution.

I'm only looking for a File Server that will only do exactly that, not interested in VM's or Jails, I have another machine that does the hard work for me.

Wish List
Case: Norco RPC-4224 4U
Mobo: Need recemmendation (ITX or Micro ATX)
RAM: Unsure how much is needed ( I want to populate 120tb in this sever)
HDD: Will be going with either WD Reds or Seagate's Ironwolf series (Need Recemmendation).
HBA: Unsure how to accomplish this? (24 ports needed). Read about re-flashing cards and adding expanders, unsure where to start.
Network: 10Gbe

 

[m0nkey_]

Welcome to the forums! :)

Take a look at @Ericloewe's hardware recommendations guide for ideas on what hardware to purchase: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/

 

[DeltaOscarMike]

What about these Xeon-D motherboards with cpu included.
Does Freenas support these motherboards?

 

[m0nkey_]

What about these Xeon-D motherboards with cpu included.
Does Freenas support these motherboards?

Yes.

 

[droeders]

Case: Norco RPC-4224 4U

Since you're considering this case, I would definitely check out the excellent build report done by
@Stux:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...24-supermicro-x10-sri-f-xeon-e5-1650v4.46262/