I'm making the move from using my gaming rig for home sharing over to built my very own dedicated FreeNAS server. Therefore I need some recommendations and guidelines when it comes to FreeNAS and supported hardware as I have never used FreeBSD before.
Here is the hardware I'm considering to get for my 24/7 FreeNAS server:
Asus P8B-M, LGA1155 Intel C204 Micro-ATX motherboard
Link: http://www.asus.com/Server_Workstation/Server_Motherboards/P8BM/#specifications
Intel Xeon E3-1270 Quad-Core LGA1155 CPU
2x Fujitsu PRIMERGY 4GB 1333MHz, ECC, unbuffered DDR3 memory (S26361-F3335-L515)
LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i SAS / SATA RAID controller
8x Western Digital RE-4 (RAID EDITION) 2TB, 7200RPM, 64mb Cache in JBOD
Intel SSD 311 series 20GB SLC for FreeNAS installation
The plan is to primarily have 24/7 fileserver running Static Link Aggregation, AFP, SAMBA / CIFS, NFS, iTunes server, torrent client and FTP-server. I will be configuring the hardware RAID controller with JBOD and setup a ZFS system with my eight hard drives, but I have no idea which type would be most sufficient for my eight hard drive system?
What do you think of the hardware I have listed? How do you think FreeNAS should work for my particular system, and which ZFS setup should I pick? Might I be better of with purchasing a Qnap TS-879 Pro?
Here is the hardware I'm considering to get for my 24/7 FreeNAS server:
Asus P8B-M, LGA1155 Intel C204 Micro-ATX motherboard
Link: http://www.asus.com/Server_Workstation/Server_Motherboards/P8BM/#specifications
Intel Xeon E3-1270 Quad-Core LGA1155 CPU
2x Fujitsu PRIMERGY 4GB 1333MHz, ECC, unbuffered DDR3 memory (S26361-F3335-L515)
LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i SAS / SATA RAID controller
8x Western Digital RE-4 (RAID EDITION) 2TB, 7200RPM, 64mb Cache in JBOD
Intel SSD 311 series 20GB SLC for FreeNAS installation
The plan is to primarily have 24/7 fileserver running Static Link Aggregation, AFP, SAMBA / CIFS, NFS, iTunes server, torrent client and FTP-server. I will be configuring the hardware RAID controller with JBOD and setup a ZFS system with my eight hard drives, but I have no idea which type would be most sufficient for my eight hard drive system?
What do you think of the hardware I have listed? How do you think FreeNAS should work for my particular system, and which ZFS setup should I pick? Might I be better of with purchasing a Qnap TS-879 Pro?