I currently have a Synology 2-bay NAS that I would like to replace with a FreeNAS build. I've been reading various resources and guides, and I do have experience running FreeBSD, though not for some years, and that was strictly a webserver with no extreme tuning requirements.
My needs are pretty low-end; I pretty much just use it for media storage and cron backups within my home, and I'm usually the only user. I'm looking to build three or four HDs in a Z1 or Z2 configuration, maybe 8TB storage. After I upgrade I'll probably move my Transmission onto it (instead of on my desktop), and look into OwnCloud or something like that, but I'll never be doing multiple simultaneous transcoding streams or anything like that.
However, I also have a personal webserver running in AWS, which I'd like to port to a jail (either directly or in a VM, I haven't decided) on the FreeNAS: it does handle some public-facing things, but it's also mostly for low-end personal use, with very basic MySQL db's and such, and I'm tired of paying Amazon $30/month for an underpowered, under-RAM VM just to get reliability that I could get close to at home.
Without asking (yet!) about specific hardware, would the general low-end recommendations on the various resources, with 16GB of RAM, be enough to handle these needs? I'm not that keen on spending $3000 for a bling-y, overpowered build for what most of the time I could do with any consumer grade networked HD, but I would like to get something reasonably stable, mid-term future-proof, etc.
Thanks.
My needs are pretty low-end; I pretty much just use it for media storage and cron backups within my home, and I'm usually the only user. I'm looking to build three or four HDs in a Z1 or Z2 configuration, maybe 8TB storage. After I upgrade I'll probably move my Transmission onto it (instead of on my desktop), and look into OwnCloud or something like that, but I'll never be doing multiple simultaneous transcoding streams or anything like that.
However, I also have a personal webserver running in AWS, which I'd like to port to a jail (either directly or in a VM, I haven't decided) on the FreeNAS: it does handle some public-facing things, but it's also mostly for low-end personal use, with very basic MySQL db's and such, and I'm tired of paying Amazon $30/month for an underpowered, under-RAM VM just to get reliability that I could get close to at home.
Without asking (yet!) about specific hardware, would the general low-end recommendations on the various resources, with 16GB of RAM, be enough to handle these needs? I'm not that keen on spending $3000 for a bling-y, overpowered build for what most of the time I could do with any consumer grade networked HD, but I would like to get something reasonably stable, mid-term future-proof, etc.
Thanks.