Dacesilian
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Hello, I'm build a new NAS for home-usage and I want to hear your opinion and advice about chosen hardware.
I live in a small flat so my NAS will be placed on a fridge and it's only one door from my bedroom, so it should be quiet. I plan to shutdown drives at night and hope that fans will be quiet as well, but..
Case:
Anyway, I've chosen Fractal Define Node 804 as my chassis because it's quite tiny for that it has 10 bays for 3,5'' HDD - http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series/node-804 . Or is there any other "not-so-large" case for 10 HDDs? Hot-swap is a nice and Node 804 doesn't have it, but it's okay for home usage.
HDDs:
Plan to use 10x 3,5'' HDDs as a big ZFS pool, probably RAID-Z2. I think it would have enough speed for day-to-day work (loading photo thumbnails on Windows through Samba and 10G LAN, copying video files..) - is it okay? Or should I go with "RAID 10" (Striped Mirrored Vdev’s)? It's for home usage of 2-3 users, not many virtual machines.
Motherboard & CPU:
Would you buy:
Supermicro X11SSH-CTF - http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSH-CTF.cfm
Intel E3-1225 v6 - https://ark.intel.com/products/97476/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1225-v6-8M-Cache-3-30-GHz-
or embedded:
Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F - https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X11SDV-4C-TP8F.cfm ($140 more than E3 platform, but many 10G ethernets).
Power supply:
Is Seasonic Prime Ultra SSR-550GD2, 550W a good choise? I know some Seasonic PSU lines are crap and some are not.
Thank you!
I live in a small flat so my NAS will be placed on a fridge and it's only one door from my bedroom, so it should be quiet. I plan to shutdown drives at night and hope that fans will be quiet as well, but..
Case:
Anyway, I've chosen Fractal Define Node 804 as my chassis because it's quite tiny for that it has 10 bays for 3,5'' HDD - http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series/node-804 . Or is there any other "not-so-large" case for 10 HDDs? Hot-swap is a nice and Node 804 doesn't have it, but it's okay for home usage.
HDDs:
Plan to use 10x 3,5'' HDDs as a big ZFS pool, probably RAID-Z2. I think it would have enough speed for day-to-day work (loading photo thumbnails on Windows through Samba and 10G LAN, copying video files..) - is it okay? Or should I go with "RAID 10" (Striped Mirrored Vdev’s)? It's for home usage of 2-3 users, not many virtual machines.
Motherboard & CPU:
Would you buy:
Supermicro X11SSH-CTF - http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSH-CTF.cfm
Intel E3-1225 v6 - https://ark.intel.com/products/97476/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1225-v6-8M-Cache-3-30-GHz-
or embedded:
Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F - https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X11SDV-4C-TP8F.cfm ($140 more than E3 platform, but many 10G ethernets).
Power supply:
Is Seasonic Prime Ultra SSR-550GD2, 550W a good choise? I know some Seasonic PSU lines are crap and some are not.
Thank you!