Hi,
I went through most of the posts and "so you want some hardware suggestions" sticky. But I hope the following is worth asking just to make sure.
I'm planning to build my FreeNAS based NAS with 4-6 drives in a mini ITX case (I already have WD red 3TB drives). I trying to stick with a $200 budget for motherboard, processor, RAM and PSU. I can go a bit further but I don't think I can spend $500 to go for expensive hardware.
Also, my best case would be to go for ZFS or RAID-10 but worst case, RAID-1 will be enough for me.
Hope someone could help me answer following questions.
1. was considering http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157367 as the motherboard simply because it has 4 SATA ports and PCIe 3.0 x16 slot for later expansion. Is that a good motherboard to pair with Intel Celeron G1610 Ivy Bridge 2.6GHz LGA 1155 55W Dual-Core ?
2. Or, I was also looking at Asus Intel H871-PLUS motherboard since it has 6 x 6.0 Gb/s slots. Will that be a better motherboard than #1 above for ZFS?
3. The motherboard mentioned in #2 above has hardware level RAID from intel and in this page Intel says linux kernel 2.6.27 supports hardware RAID with mdadm. What if I install CentOS or another stable linux distro with a kernel later than 2.6.27 and use hardware RAID? How is it compared to FreeNAS if I want to use RAID-10?
3. heard from a friend that I need at least 16G RAM and server level motherboards to go for ZFS, is that true (seems so to some extent in "so you want some hardware suggestions" page) ? But I read couple of times here that 8G ECC RAM is enough but didn't see recommendations for a motherboard in my price range.
4. Finally, really appreciate if I can get a good recommendation for a motherboard, processor, RAM and PSU for the budget and for the above given requirements. I'm fine with buying 8GB KVR16E11/8I as suggested in the "so you want some hardware suggestions" if its whats needed. But if ZFS is gonna be too expensive, I'm fine with settling with either RAID-10 or RAID-1 in that order.
Really appreciate your answers here.
I went through most of the posts and "so you want some hardware suggestions" sticky. But I hope the following is worth asking just to make sure.
I'm planning to build my FreeNAS based NAS with 4-6 drives in a mini ITX case (I already have WD red 3TB drives). I trying to stick with a $200 budget for motherboard, processor, RAM and PSU. I can go a bit further but I don't think I can spend $500 to go for expensive hardware.
Also, my best case would be to go for ZFS or RAID-10 but worst case, RAID-1 will be enough for me.
Hope someone could help me answer following questions.
1. was considering http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157367 as the motherboard simply because it has 4 SATA ports and PCIe 3.0 x16 slot for later expansion. Is that a good motherboard to pair with Intel Celeron G1610 Ivy Bridge 2.6GHz LGA 1155 55W Dual-Core ?
2. Or, I was also looking at Asus Intel H871-PLUS motherboard since it has 6 x 6.0 Gb/s slots. Will that be a better motherboard than #1 above for ZFS?
3. The motherboard mentioned in #2 above has hardware level RAID from intel and in this page Intel says linux kernel 2.6.27 supports hardware RAID with mdadm. What if I install CentOS or another stable linux distro with a kernel later than 2.6.27 and use hardware RAID? How is it compared to FreeNAS if I want to use RAID-10?
3. heard from a friend that I need at least 16G RAM and server level motherboards to go for ZFS, is that true (seems so to some extent in "so you want some hardware suggestions" page) ? But I read couple of times here that 8G ECC RAM is enough but didn't see recommendations for a motherboard in my price range.
4. Finally, really appreciate if I can get a good recommendation for a motherboard, processor, RAM and PSU for the budget and for the above given requirements. I'm fine with buying 8GB KVR16E11/8I as suggested in the "so you want some hardware suggestions" if its whats needed. But if ZFS is gonna be too expensive, I'm fine with settling with either RAID-10 or RAID-1 in that order.
Really appreciate your answers here.