Hi all
I bought a used mini NAS system less drives a couple of years ago based around a Gigabyte GA-D510UD mini ITX, Intel ATOM 4GB RAM (so its pretty low on the specs but is doing the job.
Case has 4 hot swap drive bays and I'm running a ZFS mirror of 2 3TB western digital red drives. My thought is to up grade the size as drives fail or my space requirement increases.
Primary as a home back up and plex server.
I'm thinking of doing an upgrade retaining the case and drive configuration. I've built a few PC's but not for a few years now other than my Media centre PC which is largely redundant with a Firestick running Plex so I'm thinking of re purposing the SSD that's the boot drive in the HTPC in this upgrade as well.
I've gone no further than FreeNAS-9.2.1.9 as I'm aware the 4GB is a limiting factor.
This is what I've looked at on the https://www.scan.co.uk website. Currently tipping in at £460
ASRock E3C226D2I, Intel C226, S 1150, DDR3 ECC, SATA III 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), VGA, Dual GbE, COM, Mini ITX
16GB Crucial DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), 240 Pins, ECC Registered, CAS 11
Intel Core i3 4170, LGA 1150, Haswell, Dual Core, 3.7GHz, 5 GT/s DMI, 1150MHz GPU, 37x Ratio, 54W, CPU, Retail
Arctic Freezer 11 LP Low Profile Processor Cooler for Intel Socket 1150, 1151, 1155, 1156, 775 - 100 Watts Max Cooling
The SSD is a OCZ Agility 3 SATA III 2.5" 120GB could I use this as cache to any advantage? or should it just be a boot drive which seems a waste compared to a 16GB USB flash drive.
I appreciate any advice given, thanks in advance
Kev Cornwall UK
I bought a used mini NAS system less drives a couple of years ago based around a Gigabyte GA-D510UD mini ITX, Intel ATOM 4GB RAM (so its pretty low on the specs but is doing the job.
Case has 4 hot swap drive bays and I'm running a ZFS mirror of 2 3TB western digital red drives. My thought is to up grade the size as drives fail or my space requirement increases.
Primary as a home back up and plex server.
I'm thinking of doing an upgrade retaining the case and drive configuration. I've built a few PC's but not for a few years now other than my Media centre PC which is largely redundant with a Firestick running Plex so I'm thinking of re purposing the SSD that's the boot drive in the HTPC in this upgrade as well.
I've gone no further than FreeNAS-9.2.1.9 as I'm aware the 4GB is a limiting factor.
This is what I've looked at on the https://www.scan.co.uk website. Currently tipping in at £460
ASRock E3C226D2I, Intel C226, S 1150, DDR3 ECC, SATA III 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, PCIe 3.0 (x16), VGA, Dual GbE, COM, Mini ITX
16GB Crucial DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), 240 Pins, ECC Registered, CAS 11
Intel Core i3 4170, LGA 1150, Haswell, Dual Core, 3.7GHz, 5 GT/s DMI, 1150MHz GPU, 37x Ratio, 54W, CPU, Retail
Arctic Freezer 11 LP Low Profile Processor Cooler for Intel Socket 1150, 1151, 1155, 1156, 775 - 100 Watts Max Cooling
The SSD is a OCZ Agility 3 SATA III 2.5" 120GB could I use this as cache to any advantage? or should it just be a boot drive which seems a waste compared to a 16GB USB flash drive.
I appreciate any advice given, thanks in advance
Kev Cornwall UK