Hi Everyone,
First of all let me thank everyone that I have the joy of reading their guides, threads or posts - it have been a very interesting reading, which have given me a bit of an insight into FreeNAS.
Current setup: 6 drives in JBOD attached to a atom pc with a raid card, windows OS - running none stop for about 5 years
Main concern about this setup: No room for a failed drives, slow
What I want out of FreeNAS.
Work as a backup device for the household documents, pictures etc
Primary storage of Videos, Music
Capable of doing Plex (stream x2) and other jail application
Expected to setup either a 6 or 8 drive in Raidz2 to begin with, however would like to be able to add move storage capacity over time by either adding vDEVS or creating another pool
After a bit of searching around for hardware and while keeping in mind that I wish to keep it cheap, yet somewhat ready for expansion.
Then I stumbled upon MrRackables on Ebay (sure others have noticed him too)
One of the items that he currently have for sale, that have caught my eyes in terms of getting started with FreeNAS is: http://www.ebay.com/itm/4U-Supermic...216?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20fcbd7920
However it have a few items that I am unsure about in general, which I am hoping someone on this forum can answer for me.
Back Plane: BPN-SAS-846TQ
Concern: Is it capable of using SATA2/SATA3 drives at reduced speed (SATA1)
Or will I have to replace it with a SAS2 back plane ?
CPU: Dual XEON QUAD CORE PROCESSOR E5520 2.26GHz
Concern: Will these be power full enough to handle 1-2 Plex clients?
No Raid controller
Will have to invest in the IBM M1015
Concern: Will it be compatible with the Back plane or will I also have to replace that ?
Finally a very general confirmation
If any part of the hardware fails (except for the hard drives), then since it is all software based configuration / managed then I would be able to replace the damaged part or replace the entire setup and then load the configuration files on a new setup to be able to access the data.
After searching around a bit more on the Forum: this post answered this question https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...use-of-new-hardware-need-a-new-install.32850/
I apologize if some of my questions are already answered in a thread somewhere on this forum, I've tried my best to locate as much information prior to asking any questions as I could. Questions may have been answered in a way that I didn't fully understand or I wasn't sure if they applied to what I was trying to accomplice.
Thanks
Tadario
First of all let me thank everyone that I have the joy of reading their guides, threads or posts - it have been a very interesting reading, which have given me a bit of an insight into FreeNAS.
Current setup: 6 drives in JBOD attached to a atom pc with a raid card, windows OS - running none stop for about 5 years
Main concern about this setup: No room for a failed drives, slow
What I want out of FreeNAS.
Work as a backup device for the household documents, pictures etc
Primary storage of Videos, Music
Capable of doing Plex (stream x2) and other jail application
Expected to setup either a 6 or 8 drive in Raidz2 to begin with, however would like to be able to add move storage capacity over time by either adding vDEVS or creating another pool
After a bit of searching around for hardware and while keeping in mind that I wish to keep it cheap, yet somewhat ready for expansion.
Then I stumbled upon MrRackables on Ebay (sure others have noticed him too)
One of the items that he currently have for sale, that have caught my eyes in terms of getting started with FreeNAS is: http://www.ebay.com/itm/4U-Supermic...216?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20fcbd7920
However it have a few items that I am unsure about in general, which I am hoping someone on this forum can answer for me.
Back Plane: BPN-SAS-846TQ
Concern: Is it capable of using SATA2/SATA3 drives at reduced speed (SATA1)
Or will I have to replace it with a SAS2 back plane ?
CPU: Dual XEON QUAD CORE PROCESSOR E5520 2.26GHz
Concern: Will these be power full enough to handle 1-2 Plex clients?
No Raid controller
Will have to invest in the IBM M1015
Concern: Will it be compatible with the Back plane or will I also have to replace that ?
Finally a very general confirmation
If any part of the hardware fails (except for the hard drives), then since it is all software based configuration / managed then I would be able to replace the damaged part or replace the entire setup and then load the configuration files on a new setup to be able to access the data.
After searching around a bit more on the Forum: this post answered this question https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...use-of-new-hardware-need-a-new-install.32850/
I apologize if some of my questions are already answered in a thread somewhere on this forum, I've tried my best to locate as much information prior to asking any questions as I could. Questions may have been answered in a way that I didn't fully understand or I wasn't sure if they applied to what I was trying to accomplice.
Thanks
Tadario
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