mappo
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This is scary and I'd love for someone to hold my hand through it.
I'm ok experienced with PC hardware and I've been using Linux on my laptops since the Pentium III days, but NAS is new.
I'm looking to replace my current LAMP system and I'll need the following:
* Owncloud
* Plex (around 5 sinks)
* Some way of backing up phones and laptops (currently done with Bittorrent sync).
* not lose precious data
Let's divide the data into three levels of "preciousness"
A: personal stuff like photos - must not lose
B: rips of CDs and DVDs that I own - would suck to lose, but ok
C: stuff downloaded from ... err ... yargh! ... the "cloud" - redundancy would be waste of disk
How would this translate into pool and vdev configurations?
My naive research yielded that level A should be ZR2 and level B could be ZR1 (if "small" disks were used).
For level C, I could use single drives.
But I still haven't been able to work out if this means 3 zpools or 1 zpool with 3 vdevs!
To complicate things further I want the Plex jail to be able to reach both ripped and downloaded files (levels B and C).
And then there's the hardware...
I've been looking at the Supermicro X11SSM-F mobo with the Xeon E3-1220v5 on top. The specs look great, but I'm a bit weary of using the latest rather than the greatest. Advice much appreciated.
I'll use whatever RAM is recommended on Supermicro's website once I've selected with mobo to use; 2x8 GB to start with.
Somewhere on this site i saw the advice of picking drives of different makes, so I'll go for Seagate NAS and WD Red. I'll decide on how many and how large after I know more (hopefully through help on this forum) on the zpool/vdev configuration.
A side-order:
I have a bunch of 500GB IDE drives. Is there an IDE I/O card compatible with FreeNAS?
I'm ok experienced with PC hardware and I've been using Linux on my laptops since the Pentium III days, but NAS is new.
I'm looking to replace my current LAMP system and I'll need the following:
* Owncloud
* Plex (around 5 sinks)
* Some way of backing up phones and laptops (currently done with Bittorrent sync).
* not lose precious data
Let's divide the data into three levels of "preciousness"
A: personal stuff like photos - must not lose
B: rips of CDs and DVDs that I own - would suck to lose, but ok
C: stuff downloaded from ... err ... yargh! ... the "cloud" - redundancy would be waste of disk
How would this translate into pool and vdev configurations?
My naive research yielded that level A should be ZR2 and level B could be ZR1 (if "small" disks were used).
For level C, I could use single drives.
But I still haven't been able to work out if this means 3 zpools or 1 zpool with 3 vdevs!
To complicate things further I want the Plex jail to be able to reach both ripped and downloaded files (levels B and C).
And then there's the hardware...
I've been looking at the Supermicro X11SSM-F mobo with the Xeon E3-1220v5 on top. The specs look great, but I'm a bit weary of using the latest rather than the greatest. Advice much appreciated.
I'll use whatever RAM is recommended on Supermicro's website once I've selected with mobo to use; 2x8 GB to start with.
Somewhere on this site i saw the advice of picking drives of different makes, so I'll go for Seagate NAS and WD Red. I'll decide on how many and how large after I know more (hopefully through help on this forum) on the zpool/vdev configuration.
A side-order:
I have a bunch of 500GB IDE drives. Is there an IDE I/O card compatible with FreeNAS?