shawly
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- Apr 2, 2014
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So I currently run Proxmox on my homeserver and for my storage I use a Openmediavault VM with SnapRaid, the only reason for that is, because I use VT-d to pass through my TV card.
But since I've run into so many problems with VDR and TVHeadend, that I have decided, that I'll just buy a USB TV card that is compatible with Linux and Kodi. So I don't have to bother with this anymore.
That also means I can get rid of Proxmox and there is also no real need for OMV anymore and I thought, I maybe should go with FreeNAS.
But for FreeNAS, even for a simple home server with no valuable data, mostly movies and tv shows, I still need the recommended hardware, right?
Since I run a Z87 consumer board from Gigabyte and non-ECC RAM I'll have to upgrade. My Xeon E3-1245v3 should be ok, since it supports ECC RAM.
I've found an affordable SUPERMICRO X10SLL-S on ebay, it's used, but I'm ok with that. I'm not sure, but these unbuffered ECC UDIMMs could work? A thread with recommended RAM for X10 boards says the CT2KIT102472BD160B do work, so is there a big difference between these and the above CT2KIT102472BA160B, besides the voltage? Or is there any problem with using 1.5V ECC RAM?
The only thing I don't know is, which USB stick I should use, I'd like an affordable one that has a long life span with enough space to fit FreeNAS, nothing more. I know that pretty much any USB stick should be fine, but I'd rather have one that is recommended by some experienced users.
Would it be "safe" to run FreeNAS with my current consumer hardware (Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H and 16GB Curcial Ballistix) so I could prepare the system for the use with the optimal hardware? Or would you rather say I should wait these two weeks until I get my loan and buy the new board and RAM and then migrate my system to FreeNAS? It also says, FreeNAS supports EXT3 for data migration, does EXT4 also work read only?
But since I've run into so many problems with VDR and TVHeadend, that I have decided, that I'll just buy a USB TV card that is compatible with Linux and Kodi. So I don't have to bother with this anymore.
That also means I can get rid of Proxmox and there is also no real need for OMV anymore and I thought, I maybe should go with FreeNAS.
But for FreeNAS, even for a simple home server with no valuable data, mostly movies and tv shows, I still need the recommended hardware, right?
Since I run a Z87 consumer board from Gigabyte and non-ECC RAM I'll have to upgrade. My Xeon E3-1245v3 should be ok, since it supports ECC RAM.
I've found an affordable SUPERMICRO X10SLL-S on ebay, it's used, but I'm ok with that. I'm not sure, but these unbuffered ECC UDIMMs could work? A thread with recommended RAM for X10 boards says the CT2KIT102472BD160B do work, so is there a big difference between these and the above CT2KIT102472BA160B, besides the voltage? Or is there any problem with using 1.5V ECC RAM?
The only thing I don't know is, which USB stick I should use, I'd like an affordable one that has a long life span with enough space to fit FreeNAS, nothing more. I know that pretty much any USB stick should be fine, but I'd rather have one that is recommended by some experienced users.
Would it be "safe" to run FreeNAS with my current consumer hardware (Gigabyte Z87X-UD5H and 16GB Curcial Ballistix) so I could prepare the system for the use with the optimal hardware? Or would you rather say I should wait these two weeks until I get my loan and buy the new board and RAM and then migrate my system to FreeNAS? It also says, FreeNAS supports EXT3 for data migration, does EXT4 also work read only?
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