We have a a department who likes to store a lot of raw and high resolution photo's and poorly compressed video. We currently have a Synology DS1815+ which we are using for storing secondary backups and images along with serving other function's. We are looking at getting another device of some sort to store that departments content on, The two options I came up with are FreeNAS or a DS1517+ (which would allow us to use potentially some HA features and easy syncing between devices)
I parted out the following as a possible FreeNAS build:
Pentium G4560
SuperMicro MBD-X11SSM-F-O
8GB Kingston ECC RAM
Norco RPC-2008
SeaSonic SS-400
Totaling around $630
Storage would consist of either new SATA enterprise HDD's or potentionally reusing some older 2TB HDD's from our old EMC SAN
I thought about a RPC-2208 but that would require a SFF-8087 HBA, the RPC-2212 Would be nice due the additional 4 bays but needs 3 SFF-8087's, or potentially a 3U chassis and use a standard ATX form factor PSU (Rather shocked at the prices of redundant PSU's)
I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions about possible part's should I go with a stronger CPU or more RAM, or change out other components as well. This wont be a heavily hit file share so adding a cache isn't really necessary
I parted out the following as a possible FreeNAS build:
Pentium G4560
SuperMicro MBD-X11SSM-F-O
8GB Kingston ECC RAM
Norco RPC-2008
SeaSonic SS-400
Totaling around $630
Storage would consist of either new SATA enterprise HDD's or potentionally reusing some older 2TB HDD's from our old EMC SAN
I thought about a RPC-2208 but that would require a SFF-8087 HBA, the RPC-2212 Would be nice due the additional 4 bays but needs 3 SFF-8087's, or potentially a 3U chassis and use a standard ATX form factor PSU (Rather shocked at the prices of redundant PSU's)
I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions about possible part's should I go with a stronger CPU or more RAM, or change out other components as well. This wont be a heavily hit file share so adding a cache isn't really necessary