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Dabbler
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2016
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The last few months I have been lurking and reading up on the FreeNAS forums. I have been wanting to build a home NAS and offload 3TB of media files from my current gaming PC. I am planning of building a proper NAS system using FreeNAS, likely a Supermicro X10SL7-F, 16-32GB ECC RAM, and possibly 10TB in RAIDZ2. My goal is to store all my media files, pictures, crash plan backups, and use PLEX. I might build this NAS as soon as my tax return comes in, or after buying a house this spring. In the mean time I would like to install FreeNAS and try it out with my old gaming PC.
Its hardware is an ASUS P5B Deluxe, Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 4GB RAM, and a number of older 1.5TB drives. I also have an old 10GB SSD for the OS, so I shouldn't have to purchase anything with this trial system. Ive read FreeNAS requires 64bit computing, my old motherboard supports 64bit. It doesn't have on board video, but I have a few old video cards to choose from. I do not plan to do much with this build and FreeNAS, but I would like to become more comfortable with the OS, creating pools, etc, and all the different settings. I have dabbled with Ubuntu on an old laptop, but do not have much experience with linux distros.
Is there anything I am missing before I go ahead and give it a shot?
Its hardware is an ASUS P5B Deluxe, Intel Core 2 Duo E6400, 4GB RAM, and a number of older 1.5TB drives. I also have an old 10GB SSD for the OS, so I shouldn't have to purchase anything with this trial system. Ive read FreeNAS requires 64bit computing, my old motherboard supports 64bit. It doesn't have on board video, but I have a few old video cards to choose from. I do not plan to do much with this build and FreeNAS, but I would like to become more comfortable with the OS, creating pools, etc, and all the different settings. I have dabbled with Ubuntu on an old laptop, but do not have much experience with linux distros.
Is there anything I am missing before I go ahead and give it a shot?