SirLars
Cadet
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2012
- Messages
- 5
So I started my freenas with a project I purchased used. I purchased a server that was set up as a NAS STUFFED with 9 - 750gb hdd and 4gb ram. I upgraded the ram to the max supported by the board 8gb and changed 5 of the 750gb hdd with 4- 3tb wd red drives and installed freenas with two ZFS pools (the 4-750gb drives in one pool for about 1.8tb and the 4-3tb drives in another pool with about 10.1 tb) the OS is on a 16gb usb 3.0 stick.
It was amazingly fast at first, and so handy having all of my data on one server, easily accessed anywhere I wanted. I loved it!
However now that it is filling up (about 400GB on Volume 1 and 6.5 tb on Volume 2) I can tell the RAM is not enough as it has gotten much slower and I am getting heat warnings... I add about 50-100 GB per week, so I dont have long before it becomes unusable...
I am considering replacing the other 4- 750gb hdd with 4 more 3tb or 4tb wd red drives, but there is no way the current mobo / ram setup can support that as it's RAM is already maxed out.
This is a home NAS with mostly media and my home computer backups on it.
I want to re-purpose this server so I am purchasing a new case with better airflow, 8 sata port mobo, 24-32GB ram, and 4 more 3tb wd red drives. Obviously I want to save the data on the old NAS...
My questions as I am still kind of new to this;
What is the best method for retaining my data, but rebuilding the NAS to use the 8 wd drives on the new motherboard and case and ram.
I was considering building the new NAS with the 4 new drives, copying the data from the old NAS to the new NAS, then erasing the old drives and adding them to the new one as a second pool... is there a better method that won't take days to copy over?
and hardware wise, do I really NEED a Xeon processor, server board and ECC RAM? it seems much more cost effective to use a decent AMD am3+ board, 6 or 8 core processor and 32gb of DDR3 than going with server grade hardware and ECC ram. Considering this is a home setup, not mission critical data and performance isn't as important as "upgradability" and cost effectiveness...
looks like almost $1000 difference...
any help would be appreciated.
It was amazingly fast at first, and so handy having all of my data on one server, easily accessed anywhere I wanted. I loved it!
However now that it is filling up (about 400GB on Volume 1 and 6.5 tb on Volume 2) I can tell the RAM is not enough as it has gotten much slower and I am getting heat warnings... I add about 50-100 GB per week, so I dont have long before it becomes unusable...
I am considering replacing the other 4- 750gb hdd with 4 more 3tb or 4tb wd red drives, but there is no way the current mobo / ram setup can support that as it's RAM is already maxed out.
This is a home NAS with mostly media and my home computer backups on it.
I want to re-purpose this server so I am purchasing a new case with better airflow, 8 sata port mobo, 24-32GB ram, and 4 more 3tb wd red drives. Obviously I want to save the data on the old NAS...
My questions as I am still kind of new to this;
What is the best method for retaining my data, but rebuilding the NAS to use the 8 wd drives on the new motherboard and case and ram.
I was considering building the new NAS with the 4 new drives, copying the data from the old NAS to the new NAS, then erasing the old drives and adding them to the new one as a second pool... is there a better method that won't take days to copy over?
and hardware wise, do I really NEED a Xeon processor, server board and ECC RAM? it seems much more cost effective to use a decent AMD am3+ board, 6 or 8 core processor and 32gb of DDR3 than going with server grade hardware and ECC ram. Considering this is a home setup, not mission critical data and performance isn't as important as "upgradability" and cost effectiveness...
looks like almost $1000 difference...
$964.91
https://secure.newegg.ca/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=317037281,924.87
https://secure.newegg.ca/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=31703688any help would be appreciated.