FreeNas for my Video Library

flavio61

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My first Freenas is intended to contain my video library made up of .mkv files which must be read by my HTPC. For now on the HTTPC I use Kodi + MPC-BE + madVR and therefore the FreeNas would only act as an archive, but in the future I could also install a Plex server. Given that the Intel SSD 530, the Xeon e3 and two WD Red 10Tb. I already have them because they have been discontinued from other PCs. my list is:

Case: Fractal Define R5
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSH-F
Processor: Intel Xeon e3-1220 v3
RAM: Kingston KSM24ED8 / 16ME 16Gb.
Power supply: Antec HCG 650W Gold
Boot Device: Intel® SSD 530 Series 180GB, M.2 80mm SATA 6Gb / s, 20nm, MLC
HDs: 4 x WD Red 10Tb

What do you think?

Thanks.
 
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With the Intel® SSD 530 Series 180GB you could run a whole PC, the smallest one I found for another 4 datadrive-system was a 32gb drive. A running 4 drive system has 32gb ram (2 vdevs Mirror) uses 1,4 GiB for services, the rest ist free or zfs Cache. The processor is a Xeon e3-1240v3 and every thing is fine.
 

jgreco

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With the Intel® SSD 530 Series 180GB you could run a whole PC, the smallest one I found for another 4 datadrive-system was a 32gb drive. A running 4 drive system has 32gb ram (2 vdevs Mirror) uses 1,4 GiB for services, the rest ist free or zfs Cache. The processor is a Xeon e3-1240v3 and every thing is fine.

The inevitable answer to the question of what to do with all those smaller SSD's from five to ten years ago.
 

Inxsible

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RAM: Kingston KSM24ED8 / 16ME 16Gb.
Is that ECC RAM? Unbuffered or Registered? and supported by the motherboard that you have chosen?
 
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