Dear all
Introduction: I would like to finally have a NAS in my home. Currently my data (not so important) is spread across different external hard disks and computers. My torrent server box (a small minipc) has a 2TB external hard disk that is always full. Moreover I don't like using USB bus to always on torrent seeding. Important data are documents and are cloud stored.
Between Synology/Qnap and FreeNAS I chose the latter. With less than 230 EUR I bought an old HP tower server with Xeon E3-1240v2 and 32GB ECC RAM, ILO adapter included. It seemed a bargain. It has 4 drive bays. Thanks god there is aliexpress for the cheap trays :)
The questions are, based on your experience:
File sharing
Introduction: I would like to finally have a NAS in my home. Currently my data (not so important) is spread across different external hard disks and computers. My torrent server box (a small minipc) has a 2TB external hard disk that is always full. Moreover I don't like using USB bus to always on torrent seeding. Important data are documents and are cloud stored.
Between Synology/Qnap and FreeNAS I chose the latter. With less than 230 EUR I bought an old HP tower server with Xeon E3-1240v2 and 32GB ECC RAM, ILO adapter included. It seemed a bargain. It has 4 drive bays. Thanks god there is aliexpress for the cheap trays :)
The questions are, based on your experience:
- Should I buy 4x4TB and go for RAID-Z2 or buy 2x8TB and go for ZFS Mirror?
The overall cost is roughly 500 euros (and I'm not happy but I don't see any alternatives)
I would opt for 2x8TB - Seagate or WD? Why?
- 5400rpm (3yr warranty) or 7200rpm (5yr warranty)?
Consider my home usage below: I think I don't need such huge throughput. But this is my first NAS thus I prefer to ask to experts :) - Less expensive alternatives?
I read about tweaking WD greens but seems that greens are not produced anymore?
Thus I assume there are no less expensive alternatives, so I assume buying NAS drives is the only intelligent option.
File sharing
- downloaded files
- Veeam / FOG backups
- VMs archive
- unifi controller
- torrent box / data hoarding (I like to download Linux/BSD OSes)
- PXE server for booting OSes
- web scraping / data hoarding (just a humble hobby, starting, do not know how much it will take as thoughput)
- maybe a PLEX server, but I am not a movie person. Just for try.
- various test VMs, not always online