At my office we have a lot of old hardware servers that seam still usable for some things.
But just are not worth investing in any upgrades into.
We have been in need of some NAS storage for backups for sometime. And don't get me wrong I like some of the easy features for the commercial products like Synology and Qnap.
But for the past 2 months I have been playing with FreeNAS at home for a Plex server.
I gota say I love it. I have no Idea why I haven done this sooner at home.
I'm using a old desktop that we were going to scrap its a little under powered and only have 8 gigs of ram on it.
But I dont do anything more than file share and Plex and I feel like it works ok. sometimes have some issues with video files that are large and 1080p stream. So I just down the stream to 720p and lower the meg setting to a good fit. That seams to fix most issues.But Back to my questions.
Our older hardware at the office is some Dell R310's with single Xeon X3040's 2.4ghz 4 core's 16 gigs of ram so I might be able to push to 20 to 24gigs. And I have lots of SATA drives WD NAS Red's 2TB 7200's.
Most of the servers have raid cards some are a Perc 6i and some are some Dell S100 or S300 and there is one LSI SAS 1068e chipset based card.
Anyway if I was to set one of these for a NAS file share for production backups or maybe SMB image shares. Using FreeNAS Would it be a okay fit?
And if so what would be better Iscsi connections or just SMB sharing?
Also should I use the raid in FreeNAS?
Or with this older hardware processor should I just use the raid 5 on the raid cards?
The Perc 6i is harder to make the drives look like JOB so I can swap the card if I should use the FreeNAS raid.
But mostly just trying to see if using this hardware for this function is a good fit or not.
But just are not worth investing in any upgrades into.
We have been in need of some NAS storage for backups for sometime. And don't get me wrong I like some of the easy features for the commercial products like Synology and Qnap.
But for the past 2 months I have been playing with FreeNAS at home for a Plex server.
I gota say I love it. I have no Idea why I haven done this sooner at home.
I'm using a old desktop that we were going to scrap its a little under powered and only have 8 gigs of ram on it.
But I dont do anything more than file share and Plex and I feel like it works ok. sometimes have some issues with video files that are large and 1080p stream. So I just down the stream to 720p and lower the meg setting to a good fit. That seams to fix most issues.But Back to my questions.
Our older hardware at the office is some Dell R310's with single Xeon X3040's 2.4ghz 4 core's 16 gigs of ram so I might be able to push to 20 to 24gigs. And I have lots of SATA drives WD NAS Red's 2TB 7200's.
Most of the servers have raid cards some are a Perc 6i and some are some Dell S100 or S300 and there is one LSI SAS 1068e chipset based card.
Anyway if I was to set one of these for a NAS file share for production backups or maybe SMB image shares. Using FreeNAS Would it be a okay fit?
And if so what would be better Iscsi connections or just SMB sharing?
Also should I use the raid in FreeNAS?
Or with this older hardware processor should I just use the raid 5 on the raid cards?
The Perc 6i is harder to make the drives look like JOB so I can swap the card if I should use the FreeNAS raid.
But mostly just trying to see if using this hardware for this function is a good fit or not.