Hi, I already built my first Freenas "data timecapsule" two years ago, works like a charm but it is so loud and power consuming I only swith it on when I need to retrieve and/or transfer data on it. That's not an ideal solution for my home, please take a look at it: RPC-4224 case, Dual Xeon (old gen can't remember exactly which generation exactly, 2.6Ghz each), 16Gb ECC RAM, Tyan Tempest i5000PX motherboard, LSI 9280-24i4e SAS controller, 8x 2TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDDs (RAID-Z2)...
you can clearly see the mistakes I made ;)
Now I plan to change to something less ambitious but more realistic.
The parts I'm pretty sure I'll use are: U-NAS NSC-8000 case, 128Gb OCZ Vertex 3 SSD (already own it) as cache drive, I also want to use 8x 4Tb HDDs. I'm really not sure which mobo to use, was about to chose C275x mobo (either Supermicro or Asrock) BUT I saw several threads that show some compatibility issued with newer hardware...
Can you please give me some advice?
Here is what I just want: a NAS that is rock solid, SFF, silent, don't heat too much/consumes little power but has enough performance to handle multiple tasks such as Sickbeard/Couchpotato torrenting, DLNA server, SMB sharing, has dual parity (eg Raid-Z2)...
In fact like a Synology/QNAP BUT with ZFS support :)
you can clearly see the mistakes I made ;)
Now I plan to change to something less ambitious but more realistic.
The parts I'm pretty sure I'll use are: U-NAS NSC-8000 case, 128Gb OCZ Vertex 3 SSD (already own it) as cache drive, I also want to use 8x 4Tb HDDs. I'm really not sure which mobo to use, was about to chose C275x mobo (either Supermicro or Asrock) BUT I saw several threads that show some compatibility issued with newer hardware...
Can you please give me some advice?
Here is what I just want: a NAS that is rock solid, SFF, silent, don't heat too much/consumes little power but has enough performance to handle multiple tasks such as Sickbeard/Couchpotato torrenting, DLNA server, SMB sharing, has dual parity (eg Raid-Z2)...
In fact like a Synology/QNAP BUT with ZFS support :)