maverick72
Cadet
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- Aug 31, 2012
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Hi guys,
great forum btw. I'm looking into a replacement for my D710 from Synology. That nas is great but i need more in terms of (space, flexibility, power). Yes i could've added the expansion box on that syno but I'm a Solaris admin so ZFS would be actually a great plus and thats why i wanted to jump in the FreeNAS wagon.
So basicly my requirements and questions would be:
- Real powerfull cpu (i want performance and not power saving). Not sure if going i7 hex core would actually give a plus but i'm asking.
- 4-5 disks
- dual nic (as i have a managed switch that supports link aggreg)
- Nas chassis (something like Fractal Design Array R2 Mini ITX)
- Needs are streaming 1080p to computer and PH box, sabnzb box (repair, uncompress, etc), backups 4 mac stations, files, photos, music, dns cache, ldap server, etc.
- Disk controler: card or onboard? again on the performance side.
I did not see in the hardware requirements if FreeNAS support dual cpu. Not sure it would be a real plus.
i've looked at the Intel® Desktop Board DH77DF but it only sports a single lan interface.
Also read that there is no need to use a SSD for cache. Is that cost related or simply it doesn't add anything in term of performance?
In short i want MAX performance but in a small package
Budget would be around 1200$ (so no iodrive please ) It can be a little higher IF there is really a performance plus.
Thanks!
great forum btw. I'm looking into a replacement for my D710 from Synology. That nas is great but i need more in terms of (space, flexibility, power). Yes i could've added the expansion box on that syno but I'm a Solaris admin so ZFS would be actually a great plus and thats why i wanted to jump in the FreeNAS wagon.
So basicly my requirements and questions would be:
- Real powerfull cpu (i want performance and not power saving). Not sure if going i7 hex core would actually give a plus but i'm asking.
- 4-5 disks
- dual nic (as i have a managed switch that supports link aggreg)
- Nas chassis (something like Fractal Design Array R2 Mini ITX)
- Needs are streaming 1080p to computer and PH box, sabnzb box (repair, uncompress, etc), backups 4 mac stations, files, photos, music, dns cache, ldap server, etc.
- Disk controler: card or onboard? again on the performance side.
I did not see in the hardware requirements if FreeNAS support dual cpu. Not sure it would be a real plus.
i've looked at the Intel® Desktop Board DH77DF but it only sports a single lan interface.
Also read that there is no need to use a SSD for cache. Is that cost related or simply it doesn't add anything in term of performance?
In short i want MAX performance but in a small package
Budget would be around 1200$ (so no iodrive please ) It can be a little higher IF there is really a performance plus.Thanks!
