aikicoops
Cadet
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- May 1, 2017
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Hi yguys.
I'm new to the "build your own NAS" community, so please bear with me here.
I have cobbled together a NAS out of parts of an old PC, (about 3 years old now).
I have installed a new WD Red 3Tb drive (currently striped) for the moment and installed FreeNAS via a bootable USB. Over the next month, I would like to increase the size of this volume to say 9-12Tb in total. This will only house music and movies at this stage, NO documents at all.
If a drive fails I don't care too much of I lose the data as I have it backed up through CrashPlan (if anyone is wondering about redundancy).
Then in the next couple of months, I will look at getting 3 more drives (to match the size of the original pool) and setup a mirror for the music/movies drives and start adding documents once I have redundancy setup (maybe Raid5? Thoughts please?).
All drives will be WD Reds.
The current system has 16Gb ram, with an intel i7.
As I am learning this as I go I would appreciate the help in setting this up.
Financially I am unable to just go out and Purchase all the drives at once, which I know is ideal.
Thanks for your help in advanced.
Cheers
Coops
I'm new to the "build your own NAS" community, so please bear with me here.
I have cobbled together a NAS out of parts of an old PC, (about 3 years old now).
I have installed a new WD Red 3Tb drive (currently striped) for the moment and installed FreeNAS via a bootable USB. Over the next month, I would like to increase the size of this volume to say 9-12Tb in total. This will only house music and movies at this stage, NO documents at all.
If a drive fails I don't care too much of I lose the data as I have it backed up through CrashPlan (if anyone is wondering about redundancy).
Then in the next couple of months, I will look at getting 3 more drives (to match the size of the original pool) and setup a mirror for the music/movies drives and start adding documents once I have redundancy setup (maybe Raid5? Thoughts please?).
All drives will be WD Reds.
The current system has 16Gb ram, with an intel i7.
As I am learning this as I go I would appreciate the help in setting this up.
Financially I am unable to just go out and Purchase all the drives at once, which I know is ideal.
Thanks for your help in advanced.
Cheers
Coops