Hello,
I just joined here yesterday, and since I am planning on building my own NAS, I think this is the best place to ask.
The system will be in the cellar tech room, which isn't very warm (it's not cold either), so I have no worries about the loudness.
The current setup I have is a DLINK DNS-323 NAS on the CAT6 Gigabit network, RT-N66U router after the cable modem, rooms connected with single cables, and Cisco SE2500 before the main computer (where I will mainly be using the NAS). You can guess that I'm not really happy with the speed of DNS-323 and this is the reason for the change: I want speed, reliability and storage space with expandability options.
My idea after reading a LOT around is a DIY NAS based on RAID-Z2 configuration using FreeNAS.
What I want:
- 110 MB/s transfer speeds, read and write (not that the computer transfer from a Samsung 840 PRO SSD, so the speed isn't the issue on the computer side)
- storage space of about 8TB in the beginning (4x 2TB), ability to expand to 12TB later on, and even more if and when 4TB disks come out, maybe even through adding vdevs if needed
- redundancy, I don't want to care much about the data loss
- lowest possible power usage without hardware overkill!
I also considered going link aggregation, however I think without two managed switches and a dual connection to the rooms, this would be without much sense. There will only be one computer accessing the NAS for high speeds, other clients are completely OK will somewhat lower speeds.
The current setup in the main computer is an OSX on a PC, NIC is Logilink PCIEX 1Gbit 8111F, mainboard is ASUS P8Z77-V PRO (reason for the Logilink card is the inability of the WOL with the Intel onboard NIC with the OSX).
The reason for the FreeNAS is also the need for all three protocols. Samba has a high overhead, so I intend of going AFP or NFS with OSX, and my media player really likes NFS better than Samba. I have another Apple devices in the house, so AFP would come in handy.
My current plan is to get following:
Supermicro X9SCL-F-O
Intel G2020
Kingston 16GB 1333 CL9 ECC Registered - KVR1333D3D4R9SK2
be quiet 400W E9 (80+ Gold certified)
Fractal Design ATX Mini Arc (6 slots for disks, 2 5,25 bays)
APC Back-UPS ES 325VA BE325-GR++
I reckon that the motherboard is a good choice, but in the combo with the CPU, I am asking myself if it's not an overkill for the given usage? Important thing to notice that the server would be used mainly for the file serving, bittorrent and maybe sabnzbd/sickbeard/couchpotato (didn't research this well yet). I am very keen to keeping my power costs as low as possible. The initial cost can be a little higher, however not so high that it won't pay off in the long run. I also want this server relatively future proof, meaning for at least couple of years not really thinking about it and just leave it on 24/7.
Main worries are:
- can I somehow achieve 50w max idle usage? and 20w when HDDs sleep? will this CPU make that possible?
- are there alternatives, for example Atom dual 1.8Ghz? I notice most of high end Synologies use Atoms D2700 and their power usage is not very high
- how to make the connection saturate fully the gigabit network I have at home (transfer speeds 100-120 MB/s)
Many thanks.
Kosta
I just joined here yesterday, and since I am planning on building my own NAS, I think this is the best place to ask.
The system will be in the cellar tech room, which isn't very warm (it's not cold either), so I have no worries about the loudness.
The current setup I have is a DLINK DNS-323 NAS on the CAT6 Gigabit network, RT-N66U router after the cable modem, rooms connected with single cables, and Cisco SE2500 before the main computer (where I will mainly be using the NAS). You can guess that I'm not really happy with the speed of DNS-323 and this is the reason for the change: I want speed, reliability and storage space with expandability options.
My idea after reading a LOT around is a DIY NAS based on RAID-Z2 configuration using FreeNAS.
What I want:
- 110 MB/s transfer speeds, read and write (not that the computer transfer from a Samsung 840 PRO SSD, so the speed isn't the issue on the computer side)
- storage space of about 8TB in the beginning (4x 2TB), ability to expand to 12TB later on, and even more if and when 4TB disks come out, maybe even through adding vdevs if needed
- redundancy, I don't want to care much about the data loss
- lowest possible power usage without hardware overkill!
I also considered going link aggregation, however I think without two managed switches and a dual connection to the rooms, this would be without much sense. There will only be one computer accessing the NAS for high speeds, other clients are completely OK will somewhat lower speeds.
The current setup in the main computer is an OSX on a PC, NIC is Logilink PCIEX 1Gbit 8111F, mainboard is ASUS P8Z77-V PRO (reason for the Logilink card is the inability of the WOL with the Intel onboard NIC with the OSX).
The reason for the FreeNAS is also the need for all three protocols. Samba has a high overhead, so I intend of going AFP or NFS with OSX, and my media player really likes NFS better than Samba. I have another Apple devices in the house, so AFP would come in handy.
My current plan is to get following:
Supermicro X9SCL-F-O
Intel G2020
Kingston 16GB 1333 CL9 ECC Registered - KVR1333D3D4R9SK2
be quiet 400W E9 (80+ Gold certified)
Fractal Design ATX Mini Arc (6 slots for disks, 2 5,25 bays)
APC Back-UPS ES 325VA BE325-GR++
I reckon that the motherboard is a good choice, but in the combo with the CPU, I am asking myself if it's not an overkill for the given usage? Important thing to notice that the server would be used mainly for the file serving, bittorrent and maybe sabnzbd/sickbeard/couchpotato (didn't research this well yet). I am very keen to keeping my power costs as low as possible. The initial cost can be a little higher, however not so high that it won't pay off in the long run. I also want this server relatively future proof, meaning for at least couple of years not really thinking about it and just leave it on 24/7.
Main worries are:
- can I somehow achieve 50w max idle usage? and 20w when HDDs sleep? will this CPU make that possible?
- are there alternatives, for example Atom dual 1.8Ghz? I notice most of high end Synologies use Atoms D2700 and their power usage is not very high
- how to make the connection saturate fully the gigabit network I have at home (transfer speeds 100-120 MB/s)
Many thanks.
Kosta