Eric Dunn
Cadet
- Joined
- Feb 18, 2016
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Hello FreeNAS community,
I’ve been doing a lot of reading of the community posts and FreeNAS documentation and have decided to embark upon my second FreeNas Build from scratch (reasons below).
Background
I’m an IT professional of 20 years the last 10 working in managerial positions and have recently started my own consultancy. I dabble in Linux, but mostly I'm a Windows guy (MCSE).
I have had a Home Theatre PC/TV System on my home network for about the last 12 years and about 7 years ago I reused an old HTPC as a NAS (FreeNAS) to store all my movies/tv/photos etc. I increased the drive space to 12TB about 5 years ago after some drive failures and upgraded it to v9 when v9 came out. The old NAS has done very well and I'm very pleased with it's performance.
At the end of last year, I started to use the NAS for storing documents etc. for my new business which changed the importance of security, data integrity, redundancy and backup etc. The old NAS has started having some issues and running very slow so I have decided to build a new NAS, copy all the data to it, and then rebuild/fix the old machine as a backup for the new one.
Proposed hardware
MB 1 x MSI C236M Micro ATX Workstation
CPU 1 x Intel Xeon E3 1220 V5
Memory 2 x KINGSTON KVR21E15D8/8HA, 8GB 2133MHZ DDR4 ECC CL15 DIMM 2RX8 HYNIX A
HDD 4 x 4TB Western Digital RED WD40EFRX 3.5in
SSD 2 x Kingston SSDNow V300 60Gb 2.5in
Case 1 x Fractal Design Node 804 (Black)
PSU 1 x Be Quiet L8 600W
UPS 1 x Eaton 5E
Reasoning
12TB of space with one redundant disk on Z1 with one should be plenty and speed is no great issue as long as I can stream movies over the network.
Xeon CPU, Server Chipset and 16 GB ECC RAM is strongly recommended
This MB supports all the above and has built in graphics
1 SSDs for OS backing up to the second as failover
Case is nice, quiet and cheap
600watt PSU exceeds requirements and “Be Quiet” is … quiet
Questions
Did I miss anything?
I’m not sure about the RAM, the Kingston site says it’s compatible, but it’s not on the MSI list of compatible RAM.
Should I consider going virtual on this hardware?
Is there any interest in my documenting the build as I go along.
Constructive criticism warmly received
Many thanks,
Eric.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading of the community posts and FreeNAS documentation and have decided to embark upon my second FreeNas Build from scratch (reasons below).
Background
I’m an IT professional of 20 years the last 10 working in managerial positions and have recently started my own consultancy. I dabble in Linux, but mostly I'm a Windows guy (MCSE).
I have had a Home Theatre PC/TV System on my home network for about the last 12 years and about 7 years ago I reused an old HTPC as a NAS (FreeNAS) to store all my movies/tv/photos etc. I increased the drive space to 12TB about 5 years ago after some drive failures and upgraded it to v9 when v9 came out. The old NAS has done very well and I'm very pleased with it's performance.
At the end of last year, I started to use the NAS for storing documents etc. for my new business which changed the importance of security, data integrity, redundancy and backup etc. The old NAS has started having some issues and running very slow so I have decided to build a new NAS, copy all the data to it, and then rebuild/fix the old machine as a backup for the new one.
Proposed hardware
MB 1 x MSI C236M Micro ATX Workstation
CPU 1 x Intel Xeon E3 1220 V5
Memory 2 x KINGSTON KVR21E15D8/8HA, 8GB 2133MHZ DDR4 ECC CL15 DIMM 2RX8 HYNIX A
HDD 4 x 4TB Western Digital RED WD40EFRX 3.5in
SSD 2 x Kingston SSDNow V300 60Gb 2.5in
Case 1 x Fractal Design Node 804 (Black)
PSU 1 x Be Quiet L8 600W
UPS 1 x Eaton 5E
Reasoning
12TB of space with one redundant disk on Z1 with one should be plenty and speed is no great issue as long as I can stream movies over the network.
Xeon CPU, Server Chipset and 16 GB ECC RAM is strongly recommended
This MB supports all the above and has built in graphics
1 SSDs for OS backing up to the second as failover
Case is nice, quiet and cheap
600watt PSU exceeds requirements and “Be Quiet” is … quiet
Questions
Did I miss anything?
I’m not sure about the RAM, the Kingston site says it’s compatible, but it’s not on the MSI list of compatible RAM.
Should I consider going virtual on this hardware?
Is there any interest in my documenting the build as I go along.
Constructive criticism warmly received
Many thanks,
Eric.