Manuel F. Almeida
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Hello Im going to buy a 20 HDD bays case, Lian Li pc-D8000, I've chosen some hardware to go along with it but I wanted your advice on it, especially motherboard related. I will be filling it up with the passage of time, with 4TB hdd's (only JBOD / raid0 allows this?)
So, what I've chosen so far:
Motherboard - Super Micro D-X9SCA-F-O
CPU - Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1220L v2 (3M Cache, 2.30 GHz)
RAM - Kingston ECC 8GB KVR16E11/8I or the 16gb one.
PSU - SeaSonic SSR-650RM 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active (I want to know if I go for this modular PSU will I have enough SATA power connectors) ?
Ok, so what do you think of these specs? Will it hold? I want to install freenas on a ZFS file - system and the purpose for the NAS is storage for MKV's in order to stream to 3 media-players around the house via Gigabit LAN.
Sofware questions:
First, in order to build the ZFS file system, will I be able to add HDD's in the future quickly?
Second, Is it possible to turn 3 4TB HDD's into "one" hdd in terms of space? for ex: a big 10 TB disk which network (and windows pc's) can access ? AKA JBOD ?
Third, I will buy from here on, only 4TB drives. But atm i have ONE 4tb TWO 3 TB and TWO 1TB HDD's.
The NAS is intended, as said, only for streaming and storing MKV's, if I go for a RAIDz0 or 5 or whatever, I wont be using the full capacity of the 4TB disks because I'll be limited by the small capacity ones, right?
Also, if I go for a raid system I can only buy (for ex) 4 HDD's at each time, right? The only plug and play solution would be JBOD ?
So, what I've chosen so far:
Motherboard - Super Micro D-X9SCA-F-O
CPU - Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1220L v2 (3M Cache, 2.30 GHz)
RAM - Kingston ECC 8GB KVR16E11/8I or the 16gb one.
PSU - SeaSonic SSR-650RM 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active (I want to know if I go for this modular PSU will I have enough SATA power connectors) ?
Ok, so what do you think of these specs? Will it hold? I want to install freenas on a ZFS file - system and the purpose for the NAS is storage for MKV's in order to stream to 3 media-players around the house via Gigabit LAN.
Sofware questions:
First, in order to build the ZFS file system, will I be able to add HDD's in the future quickly?
Second, Is it possible to turn 3 4TB HDD's into "one" hdd in terms of space? for ex: a big 10 TB disk which network (and windows pc's) can access ? AKA JBOD ?
Third, I will buy from here on, only 4TB drives. But atm i have ONE 4tb TWO 3 TB and TWO 1TB HDD's.
The NAS is intended, as said, only for streaming and storing MKV's, if I go for a RAIDz0 or 5 or whatever, I wont be using the full capacity of the 4TB disks because I'll be limited by the small capacity ones, right?
Also, if I go for a raid system I can only buy (for ex) 4 HDD's at each time, right? The only plug and play solution would be JBOD ?