Howdy!
New to the forums and freenas but I've been skulking about reading up a lot.
I've gotten some hardware already ordered based on many recommendations and suggestions throughout the forums.
I'm looking to create a home server mainly for file storage/backups for 3 users and getting off all these USB drives i'm using now! I won't be running plex. I have a separate HTPC that would access my Blu rips from the NAS.
So for my first starting build I bought:
Case: Fractal R4
Power supply: Corsair 1050w (Though I have a fairly new Corsair 750w in my pc i could swap with)
Drives - 10x 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS drives (RaidZ2 8x2)
Now I need to purchase a motherboard....This is where i can't decide. I am already planning out a 20-24 drive setup down the road. So i just want to future proof my setup now so i don't have to worry about upgrading all the hardware later other than the case.
I've been looking at the X10SLM-F. My dealer has a refurb that he will sell me for under 100.And this includes the 8x SAS2 LSI built in. My concern with this is the memory only goes to 32GB. For my current setup..it should be fine. But down the road would this be able to handle the increase in drives?
If the above is not recommended...then my next option was the X10SRi-F. This one goes up to 512GB/256GB memory. This will need the M1015 cards.
Well depending on whats you experts recommended...will determine what memory and cpu to get! :)
Thanks
Urlryn
New to the forums and freenas but I've been skulking about reading up a lot.
I've gotten some hardware already ordered based on many recommendations and suggestions throughout the forums.
I'm looking to create a home server mainly for file storage/backups for 3 users and getting off all these USB drives i'm using now! I won't be running plex. I have a separate HTPC that would access my Blu rips from the NAS.
So for my first starting build I bought:
Case: Fractal R4
Power supply: Corsair 1050w (Though I have a fairly new Corsair 750w in my pc i could swap with)
Drives - 10x 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS drives (RaidZ2 8x2)
Now I need to purchase a motherboard....This is where i can't decide. I am already planning out a 20-24 drive setup down the road. So i just want to future proof my setup now so i don't have to worry about upgrading all the hardware later other than the case.
I've been looking at the X10SLM-F. My dealer has a refurb that he will sell me for under 100.
If the above is not recommended...then my next option was the X10SRi-F. This one goes up to 512GB/256GB memory. This will need the M1015 cards.
Well depending on whats you experts recommended...will determine what memory and cpu to get! :)
Thanks
Urlryn
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