bytesontheroad
Dabbler
- Joined
- Mar 6, 2020
- Messages
- 14
Hi everyone,
I just registered because I'm super thrilled to get into the FreeNAS world.
I'll tell you my story. I need to substitute my old off-the-shelf NAS from 2012 when my needs weren't as complex as they are now. Eight years ago I bought a simple Synology solution for personal files, media and backup of my laptop and mobile phone. It did its job and it has been upgraded through the years until a bunch of months ago support was dropped (I understand you cannot support devices for so many years, we are not talking about some low end Samsung phone which doesn't get even a major version upgrade). My needs changed with the time passing and last year I decided to make a Home Server for many different purposes. It's based on the Supermicro M11SDV-8C-LN4F motherboard and it's composed of a EPYC 3251 8 cores/16 threads, 64 GB of DDR4 Registered ECC RAM and a software raid of 2 Samsung EVO SSDs while the network side is backed by 4 1Gb/s NICs. Still I have the chance of putting a PCI Express card for a 10 Gb/s experience when I'll need it. Since there is no space for mechanical HDDs and I want to keep virtualizing machines on it I need to set up a different system to substitute my old NAS.
Major points I want for my next solution are going to be the following.
- FreeNAS (of course!)
- 3.5" disks
- silent
- 4 bays minimum
- IPMI support, if Supermicro is better because I would need to manage only one kind of IPMI interface since I already have one
- no need for Plex, VMs, containers, transcoding, etc
- don't preclude the chance to go with 10Gb/s in the future (one SFP+ port would be very good or at least a PCI Express solution as in the other system)
- cannot spend too much right now but I can delay some expenses to some months from now (placing 8 or 16 GB of RAM now and buying other next fall for example)
First thing I was thinking about was the chassis. Considering I don't live in the USA right now I need to buy something that can be shipped to Europe someway. I found some good candidates, even from old posts on other forums like this on LTT, and at the end I think I will go with the Node 304.
The question becomes now: which motherboard should I go for? I really don't know which CPU is enough for my needs and which is not and thus a no go.
I just registered because I'm super thrilled to get into the FreeNAS world.
I'll tell you my story. I need to substitute my old off-the-shelf NAS from 2012 when my needs weren't as complex as they are now. Eight years ago I bought a simple Synology solution for personal files, media and backup of my laptop and mobile phone. It did its job and it has been upgraded through the years until a bunch of months ago support was dropped (I understand you cannot support devices for so many years, we are not talking about some low end Samsung phone which doesn't get even a major version upgrade). My needs changed with the time passing and last year I decided to make a Home Server for many different purposes. It's based on the Supermicro M11SDV-8C-LN4F motherboard and it's composed of a EPYC 3251 8 cores/16 threads, 64 GB of DDR4 Registered ECC RAM and a software raid of 2 Samsung EVO SSDs while the network side is backed by 4 1Gb/s NICs. Still I have the chance of putting a PCI Express card for a 10 Gb/s experience when I'll need it. Since there is no space for mechanical HDDs and I want to keep virtualizing machines on it I need to set up a different system to substitute my old NAS.
Major points I want for my next solution are going to be the following.
- FreeNAS (of course!)
- 3.5" disks
- silent
- 4 bays minimum
- IPMI support, if Supermicro is better because I would need to manage only one kind of IPMI interface since I already have one
- no need for Plex, VMs, containers, transcoding, etc
- don't preclude the chance to go with 10Gb/s in the future (one SFP+ port would be very good or at least a PCI Express solution as in the other system)
- cannot spend too much right now but I can delay some expenses to some months from now (placing 8 or 16 GB of RAM now and buying other next fall for example)
First thing I was thinking about was the chassis. Considering I don't live in the USA right now I need to buy something that can be shipped to Europe someway. I found some good candidates, even from old posts on other forums like this on LTT, and at the end I think I will go with the Node 304.
The question becomes now: which motherboard should I go for? I really don't know which CPU is enough for my needs and which is not and thus a no go.