Will it FreeNas?

[jhferry]

Specs:
CPU
Intel Core i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology
RAM
32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (9-9-9-25)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z77X-UP5 TH-CF (Intel Core i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz)
Graphics
Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Gigabyte)
Storage (OS)
SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC256D/AM 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Desktop
PSU
Corsair 750w

I am looking mainly at storage. Plex is secondary but would love to stream video files to Xbox or iPad. All other clients are Windows 10. I was thinking of buying a proper NAS but after finding this, might be a better use for this PC since I wont get much on the market for it. I've got 5 bays for 3.5 drives so I can really load this up. I'm a little concerned with power usage but it can be shut down at night.

Thoughts?

 

[jhferry]

This might help:
2 x SATA 6Gb/s (SATA3 0/SATA3 1), 4 x SATA 3Gb/s (SATA2 2~5) and 1 x mSATA Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
* The SATA2 5 connector will become unavailable when the mSATA connector is installed with a solid state drive.

 

[joeinaz]

"Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z77X-UP5 TH-CF (Intel Core i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz)"
Ideally for FreeNAS, a motherboard that supports ECC memory is preferred but what you have will work. Be sure to regularly backup your data.

"2 x SATA 6Gb/s (SATA3 0/SATA3 1), 4 x SATA 3Gb/s (SATA2 2~5) and 1 x mSATA Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
* The SATA2 5 connector will become unavailable when the mSATA connector is installed with a solid state drive."

If it were me, I would spend a little bit of money and get an HBA (flashed to IT-Mode) and the necessary SAS cables. I would recommend an IBM M1015. This would give you a much cleaner setup for connecting your disks. This would also leave SATA ports available for inexpensive SSDs for booting and cache.