Hello freeNAS community.
I've been looking at this project for quite some time. Recently I received retired Dell T7500 precision workstation and decided to give it a try.
In case plug for usb stick was a nice bonus. Installed 9.3 just fine. pair of new 3Gb WD green drives was visible as 2Gb while connected to SAS ports (even after bios update) had to relocate them to SATA to see the entire drive. Running in mirror. At the moment system has 3Gb non ecc ram, so no critical data loaded for now, testing CIFS shares, permissions etc. I hope to get The ecc 12Gb of RAM kit before weekend. Once installed another pair of drives (my older 2gb WD green) will go in.
Question for your consideration,
System has dual core Xeon 5503 at 2ghz which probably will be sufficient to run couple shares to serve our 3 user household. However my son was quite excited to find out freeNas can also be a Minecraft server and contemplates sharing it with his friends. Would you say CPU upgrade will be needed to comfortably run it? I see several non expensive upgrades , like compatible quad core 3.06@Ghz , but with tdp of 130W I wouldn't want to use it unless really nessery
Thanks for your attention
I've been looking at this project for quite some time. Recently I received retired Dell T7500 precision workstation and decided to give it a try.
In case plug for usb stick was a nice bonus. Installed 9.3 just fine. pair of new 3Gb WD green drives was visible as 2Gb while connected to SAS ports (even after bios update) had to relocate them to SATA to see the entire drive. Running in mirror. At the moment system has 3Gb non ecc ram, so no critical data loaded for now, testing CIFS shares, permissions etc. I hope to get The ecc 12Gb of RAM kit before weekend. Once installed another pair of drives (my older 2gb WD green) will go in.
Question for your consideration,
System has dual core Xeon 5503 at 2ghz which probably will be sufficient to run couple shares to serve our 3 user household. However my son was quite excited to find out freeNas can also be a Minecraft server and contemplates sharing it with his friends. Would you say CPU upgrade will be needed to comfortably run it? I see several non expensive upgrades , like compatible quad core 3.06@Ghz , but with tdp of 130W I wouldn't want to use it unless really nessery
Thanks for your attention