Hi everyone,
after following the forums for a couple of month and reading the hardware requirements and recommendation slides + pdf I wanted to ask you for some feedback for my build's.
It is basically for SOHO usage.
--> USERS: 3
Wedding photography, movies(plex jail), software storage and puppet/salt stuff + munki (docker), gitlab(jail), rsync backup location for webserver. Backup server for 5 Macs.
Probably other things when I have time which I don't know of yet.
--> CURRENT SETUP: I have a small Synology with 4 bays but its too slow and unflexible, as a backup I have 1x USB with 8TB and an old 2 bay Synlolgy NAS.
Where I want to go during the year:
1x Prod FreeNAS
I stay with the boxed CPU cooler as the und of the disks is probably louder anyway so it doesn't make much sense to invest in to a quieter cooler - maybe later when I experience the opposite.
1x backup / test FreeNas
1x backup to eSATA
I am wondering about the benifit of the X11SSH-(C)TF over the X11SSH-TF which is for me basically the extra possible hard drives. The price difference here is around 140€.
Would there be a cheaper way with an PCI Express card to add more drives?
Any other recommendations, did I forget something?
after following the forums for a couple of month and reading the hardware requirements and recommendation slides + pdf I wanted to ask you for some feedback for my build's.
It is basically for SOHO usage.
--> USERS: 3
Wedding photography, movies(plex jail), software storage and puppet/salt stuff + munki (docker), gitlab(jail), rsync backup location for webserver. Backup server for 5 Macs.
Probably other things when I have time which I don't know of yet.
--> CURRENT SETUP: I have a small Synology with 4 bays but its too slow and unflexible, as a backup I have 1x USB with 8TB and an old 2 bay Synlolgy NAS.
Where I want to go during the year:
1x Prod FreeNAS
- 4x WD Red 4TB
- 4x HGST NAS 4TB (prefer mixed brands)
- Supermicro X11SSH-CTF
- Intel Xeon E3-1230v6 (maybe 1240v6 as the 1230 is difficult to get in Germany at the moment)
- Fractal Design Dfine XL R2
- 2x 32GB SanDisk Ultra Fit - Boot drives - if too many get broken I'd change to SATA DOM
- 660 Watt Seasonic Platinum 80+ Modular
- 32GB (2x16GB) Samsung DDR4 2400 ECC Ram (M391A2K43BB1-CRC)
I stay with the boxed CPU cooler as the und of the disks is probably louder anyway so it doesn't make much sense to invest in to a quieter cooler - maybe later when I experience the opposite.
1x backup / test FreeNas
- 3x WD Red 4TB
- 3x HGST NAS 4TB
- Supermicro X11SSH-(C)TF
- Intel Pentium G4600 (before this thread I though going with Intel Core i3 6300)
- Fractal Design Dfine XL R2
- 2x 32GB SanDisk Ultra Fit - Boot drives - if too many get broken I'd change to SATA DOM
- 660 Watt Seasonic Platinum 80+ Modular
- 32GB (2x16GB) Samsung DDR4 2400 ECC Ram (M391A2K43BB1-CRC)
1x backup to eSATA
- Startech 2 Port PCI Express eSATA card + 2 internal SATA ports (PEXESAT322I)
- RaidSonic ICY BOX 3620 eSATA enclosure + big drives
I am wondering about the benifit of the X11SSH-(C)TF over the X11SSH-TF which is for me basically the extra possible hard drives. The price difference here is around 140€.
Would there be a cheaper way with an PCI Express card to add more drives?
Any other recommendations, did I forget something?