Valdhor
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I have been reading everything I can find regarding building my own NAS box and am wondering about the use of old server hardware available on fleabay.
First off I should probably flesh out my wants/needs. I would like a box that could provide up to 50TB of storage space with enough power for a Plex server for four clients (Plex recommends 2000 CPU PassMark per 1080p stream so 8000+ PassMark required). My budget is $600 just for server hardware with disks additional.
I am thinking of a 12 bay Supermicro server from 2009/2010 as the basis of the build. something like:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...701307?hash=item35fb8eb8bb:g:msoAAOSw5VFWFvJa
or
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...219530?hash=item43ea17880a:g:Ms4AAOSwrklVJ~UE
I would replace the RAID card with an m1015 and use that with the MB connectors. I would like to use 6TB drives in two RAIDZ2 pools giving ostensibly 24TB each for a total of 48TB.
As I don't have the money to buy all of the drives up front this will start off as a backup device for my DrobPro's. Once I completely build it, it will become the primary and the DroboPro's will become the backup. I hope to buy one 6TB drive per month (Recreating the pool each time) so have all drives within a year.
The only potential problem I see with this idea is the backplane or MB not supporting 6TB drives. If I'm correct what do people suggest?
Actually, any input would be most appreciated. Perhaps a different road? I don't really care about power consumption or keeping it quiet.
First off I should probably flesh out my wants/needs. I would like a box that could provide up to 50TB of storage space with enough power for a Plex server for four clients (Plex recommends 2000 CPU PassMark per 1080p stream so 8000+ PassMark required). My budget is $600 just for server hardware with disks additional.
I am thinking of a 12 bay Supermicro server from 2009/2010 as the basis of the build. something like:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...701307?hash=item35fb8eb8bb:g:msoAAOSw5VFWFvJa
or
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...219530?hash=item43ea17880a:g:Ms4AAOSwrklVJ~UE
I would replace the RAID card with an m1015 and use that with the MB connectors. I would like to use 6TB drives in two RAIDZ2 pools giving ostensibly 24TB each for a total of 48TB.
As I don't have the money to buy all of the drives up front this will start off as a backup device for my DrobPro's. Once I completely build it, it will become the primary and the DroboPro's will become the backup. I hope to buy one 6TB drive per month (Recreating the pool each time) so have all drives within a year.
The only potential problem I see with this idea is the backplane or MB not supporting 6TB drives. If I'm correct what do people suggest?
Actually, any input would be most appreciated. Perhaps a different road? I don't really care about power consumption or keeping it quiet.