mse09
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Hello everyone, noob to the forum here. I'm in the initial plans/process of putting together a FreeNAS setup. Well actually I'm in the process of completely over hauling/restructuring my entire home computing/networking setup in general. I'm going to hit on a few off topic aspects in this post but ultimately it is on topic, just hang in there with me and maybe you can help me out. Basically I've currently got two desktops, and most of the parts for a third just laying around. My goal is to ultimately end up with one desktop (gaming/general use), one box acting as a router running pfSense, and one FreeNAS box handling storage and a couple plugins (plex for sure). I'm going to list all the parts I currently have here at my disposal and then my theoretical build for the FreeNAS box. I'm looking to see if is the most practical given my options/goals or if I might be better served by going a different route.
Hardware list that I've got here:
CPU:
Motherboards:
RAM (ALL NON-ECC):
Hardware list that I've got here:
CPU:
- Intel Xeon E3-1230v3
- Intel Core I3-4130
- Intel Pentium G3258
Motherboards:
- MSI H97 PC MATE ATX (6x SATA)
- AsRock B85M-ITX (4x SATA)
- AsRock Z87E-ITX (6x SATA)
RAM (ALL NON-ECC):
- G. Skill Ripjaws X Series 16gb (2x8gb) DDR3-1600
- Crucial 8gb (1x8gb) DDR3-1600
- Crucial 4gb (2x2gb) DDR3-1333
- Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120gb
- Crucial M500 mSATA SSD 240gb
- Crucial MX200 SSD 500gb
- WD Green 3TB
- Seagate 1TB (basic Barracuda entry lvl drive)
- Corsair RM550
- Corsair CX500
- 500W 80+ gold slim psu (out of EVGA Hadron Air m-ITX case)
- Nanoxia Deep Silence 2 (7x 3.5" internal bays, supports up to E-ATX)
- Cooler Master Elite 120 (3x 3.5" internal bays, only supports m-ITX)
- Torn apart EVGA Hadron Air...might be able to get it back together...not 100% sure about that (3x 3.5" internal bays, only supports m-ITX)
- Intel NIC i350-T4
- Several GPU's
- Several aftermarket CPU coolers
- Several optical drives
- i3-4130
- 8gb DDR3-1600 (1x8gb so I can upgrade to 16gb at some point if necessary)
- Asrock Z87E-ITX (only because 6x SATA vs 4x SATA on the B85M-ITX)
- Corsair CX500...I know they aren't recommended but it's here, and none of this hardware is really optimal to begin with...
- Case...I'll probably buy something I guess, I'd use the little cooler master but 3x 3.5" isn't going to cut it and my desktop rig is currently in the Nanoxia due to the gpu size constraints.
- Will probably start with 4x or 6x 4TB HGST drives (unless WD Reds are preferred...I honestly have no brand preference with this)
- Xeon e3-1230v3 (this is currently in my desktop, I'd have to either drop down to the i3 for that or buy a replacement)
- 16gb ddr3-1600 (2x8) non-ecc
- msi h97 pc mate
- corsair RM550 (this is currently in my desktop, would have to drop down to the CX500 or buy a replacement)
- Nanoxia case (current desktop build is in the nanoxia case and current gpu won't fit inside the other cases I own currently, will require a replacement)
- Xeon e3-1230v3
- 16gb ECC ram (2x8gb because the CPU only supports up to 32gb total) (this would have to be purchased outright)
- Server board supporting ECC (this would have to be purchased outright)
- Corsair RM550
- Nanoxia case or server rack case
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