LIGISTX
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Old build still going strong, but that is a sever me and some buddies share. I am looking at building out my own with "only" ~20 TB of space.
I have gone through the new hardware recommendation thread and think I have my bearings with the new Skylake chips (avoiding Kaby since I plan on an i3).
I am planning to use Seagate Ironwolf 4 TB's, 8 of them to be exact in Z2, should provide a touch over 21 TB of formatted space.
i3-6100
MBD-X11SSM-F-O
SeaSonic G Series SSR-550RM 550W
M391A2K43BB1-CPB (16 GB ECC RAM)
Likely a Fractal R5 with intake fans for the HDD's
I guess my real question here is, how effective would the i3-6100 be. I know its in the "mid range" of choices, and I am not a power user *yet*. I am honestly still a huge FreeNAS noob since I don't have my own box to play on constantly. That being said, I don't see myself going TOOO crazy with it, but I will have the 8 drives in Z2 that I want decent performance out of (only trying to saturate Gigabit) and potentially a few jails. I do use crashplan so I will likely set that up, but that shouldn't be a resource hog at all, and will only be running at night...
As far as transcoding goes, I likely wouldn't ever have more than 1 device hitting it that requires transcoding of media. But I guess for my own understanding sake, how much transcoding would be expected from this CPU? Would I be able to get 2-3 streams going if I don't have much else going on, or would 1-2 be the best possible scenario?
I know the 1 TB -> 1 GB RAM recommendation drum is pounded hard, but I do not plan on having more then 2 clients hit the server at once (its really just for my personal use, I can't be in multiple places at once ...usually...) and its main purpose will be for storing MANY THOUSANDS of photos for lightroom to access, go pro video storage and playback, and multimedia playback via plex with the only real transcoding being possibly to my phone when I am not on my home network.
Also, since this motherboard I am pretty set on getting only has 8 SATA ports, I was planning to run FreeNAS off of USB. I do have a SSD laying around, so I could do USB --> SATA and use that for reliability sake. Any opinion on this option?
Any advice or opinions would be much appreciated!
Thanks.
I have gone through the new hardware recommendation thread and think I have my bearings with the new Skylake chips (avoiding Kaby since I plan on an i3).
I am planning to use Seagate Ironwolf 4 TB's, 8 of them to be exact in Z2, should provide a touch over 21 TB of formatted space.
i3-6100
MBD-X11SSM-F-O
SeaSonic G Series SSR-550RM 550W
M391A2K43BB1-CPB (16 GB ECC RAM)
Likely a Fractal R5 with intake fans for the HDD's
I guess my real question here is, how effective would the i3-6100 be. I know its in the "mid range" of choices, and I am not a power user *yet*. I am honestly still a huge FreeNAS noob since I don't have my own box to play on constantly. That being said, I don't see myself going TOOO crazy with it, but I will have the 8 drives in Z2 that I want decent performance out of (only trying to saturate Gigabit) and potentially a few jails. I do use crashplan so I will likely set that up, but that shouldn't be a resource hog at all, and will only be running at night...
As far as transcoding goes, I likely wouldn't ever have more than 1 device hitting it that requires transcoding of media. But I guess for my own understanding sake, how much transcoding would be expected from this CPU? Would I be able to get 2-3 streams going if I don't have much else going on, or would 1-2 be the best possible scenario?
I know the 1 TB -> 1 GB RAM recommendation drum is pounded hard, but I do not plan on having more then 2 clients hit the server at once (its really just for my personal use, I can't be in multiple places at once ...usually...) and its main purpose will be for storing MANY THOUSANDS of photos for lightroom to access, go pro video storage and playback, and multimedia playback via plex with the only real transcoding being possibly to my phone when I am not on my home network.
Also, since this motherboard I am pretty set on getting only has 8 SATA ports, I was planning to run FreeNAS off of USB. I do have a SSD laying around, so I could do USB --> SATA and use that for reliability sake. Any opinion on this option?
Any advice or opinions would be much appreciated!
Thanks.
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