Hi all!
I've been looking at building my own DIY NAS for both serving files, work as a XBMC stream server and potentially use it with some virtual machines down the road.
After reading the excelent post about recommended hardware by jgreco (and general googling), I made the following list as a candidate of what I want. I imagine that my streaming requirements will be rather low for the forseeable future (1-2 TV's, using one at a time. + music streaming if I dont end up with just using spotify everywhere).
The list:
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 (BX80637E31230V2)
MB: Supermicro X9SCM-F (MBD-X9SCM-F-B)
RAM: 2xKingston ValueRAM 8 GB PC3-12800 (1600MHZ, CL11) ECC (KVR16E11/8EF)
PSU: SilverStone Nightjar 500W (SST-ST50NF)
HDD's: Western Digital Red 3TB (initially only 2x)
USB-stick: SanDisk USB 3.0 Cruzer Extreme 16GB (maybe waste since MB only has USB2)
Rack: Deltaco Rack Wallmounted 9U 600x450x500mm (19-6409)
Chassis: <unsure, something that fits within the rack>
The reason for the what I imagine is relatively over-powered hardware is that I would love to run this on encrypted ZFS if thats possible, and more importantly; maybe add some web-facing services later using VM's. This means that both the AES-NI and VTd could come in handy. I might even try to run FreeNAS in a VM on top of a relatively bare host OS which only purpose is to administer the various VM's.
If I end up also adding a virtual machine to use as a build-server, the hyper-threading might come in handy too.
I also don't want to regret the build later having bought myself no head-room to anything but serving files.
Any criticisms or acknowledgments are highly welcome and appreciated!
Edit: Changed RAM to unbuffered/unregistered one, changed chassis, added Rack part & USB-stick.
I've been looking at building my own DIY NAS for both serving files, work as a XBMC stream server and potentially use it with some virtual machines down the road.
After reading the excelent post about recommended hardware by jgreco (and general googling), I made the following list as a candidate of what I want. I imagine that my streaming requirements will be rather low for the forseeable future (1-2 TV's, using one at a time. + music streaming if I dont end up with just using spotify everywhere).
The list:
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 (BX80637E31230V2)
MB: Supermicro X9SCM-F (MBD-X9SCM-F-B)
RAM: 2xKingston ValueRAM 8 GB PC3-12800 (1600MHZ, CL11) ECC (KVR16E11/8EF)
PSU: SilverStone Nightjar 500W (SST-ST50NF)
HDD's: Western Digital Red 3TB (initially only 2x)
USB-stick: SanDisk USB 3.0 Cruzer Extreme 16GB (maybe waste since MB only has USB2)
Rack: Deltaco Rack Wallmounted 9U 600x450x500mm (19-6409)
Chassis: <unsure, something that fits within the rack>
The reason for the what I imagine is relatively over-powered hardware is that I would love to run this on encrypted ZFS if thats possible, and more importantly; maybe add some web-facing services later using VM's. This means that both the AES-NI and VTd could come in handy. I might even try to run FreeNAS in a VM on top of a relatively bare host OS which only purpose is to administer the various VM's.
If I end up also adding a virtual machine to use as a build-server, the hyper-threading might come in handy too.
I also don't want to regret the build later having bought myself no head-room to anything but serving files.
Any criticisms or acknowledgments are highly welcome and appreciated!
Edit: Changed RAM to unbuffered/unregistered one, changed chassis, added Rack part & USB-stick.
