John Childermass
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Hello,
I'm planning a first-time FreeNAS build for home use. The intended uses are:
I assume that if I am starting with FreeNAS for the first time, I might as well use FreeNAS Corral, especially to have access to features such as bhyve for VMs. Is that right?
I’ve read the excellent hardware guide (thank you Ericloewe!), and would welcome any comments/suggestions on the following build:
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (reused from an existing machine)
PSU: Seasonic X-650 (reused from an existing machine)
Motherboard: Either the SuperMicro X11SSM-F or the SuperMicro X11SSH-F
Does anyone have strong opinions one way or the other? The X11SSH-F is slightly easier for me to find, and I assume that sacrificing one PCI-e slot for the M.2 connector might give me a bit more flexibility in the future.
CPU: Either the Intel Core i3-6300 or the Intel Xeon E3-1220v5
The hardware guide suggests that the i3-6300 would be sufficient for transcoding and VMs, but should I consider the Xeon instead?
If I get retail CPUs, are the stock coolers reasonably quiet or should I plan to replace them with something else?
RAM: The SuperMicro tested memory list for these motherboards lists from 2133MHz and 2400MHz parts. Does it make any difference which I get?
I can get hold of a Samsung 16 GB ECC DDR4 DIMM SDRAM M391A2K43BB1-CPB and I thought I might start with a single module (for budgetary reasons) and add another one in the future. My reading of the manual for these motherboards suggests that using a single module is OK.
Storage: I already have a couple of WD Red 3TB drives (WD30EFRX) which I’d like to reuse.
I’m thinking of buying another 3 units, to have 5 in total, which I would run as RAIDZ2, i.e. for about 9 TB storage.
Boot device: I thought I would start with a basic USB flash drive, again for budgetary reasons, and consider an SSD (either SATA or M.2) or SATA DOM in the future.
Thank you in advance for any comments!
I'm planning a first-time FreeNAS build for home use. The intended uses are:
- File storage (with Macs and Linux machines)
- Plex server (I’d like to be able to handle some transcoding… maximum of 3 clients at once, usually fewer, mostly 720p video rather than, say, 4K)
- I’d like to be able to run some VMs (mostly Linux) for general experimentation
- Possibly using it as a Time Machine network backup destination (but it wasn’t clear to me how reliable this really is, compared to the official Time Capsule devices?)
I assume that if I am starting with FreeNAS for the first time, I might as well use FreeNAS Corral, especially to have access to features such as bhyve for VMs. Is that right?
I’ve read the excellent hardware guide (thank you Ericloewe!), and would welcome any comments/suggestions on the following build:
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (reused from an existing machine)
PSU: Seasonic X-650 (reused from an existing machine)
Motherboard: Either the SuperMicro X11SSM-F or the SuperMicro X11SSH-F
Does anyone have strong opinions one way or the other? The X11SSH-F is slightly easier for me to find, and I assume that sacrificing one PCI-e slot for the M.2 connector might give me a bit more flexibility in the future.
CPU: Either the Intel Core i3-6300 or the Intel Xeon E3-1220v5
The hardware guide suggests that the i3-6300 would be sufficient for transcoding and VMs, but should I consider the Xeon instead?
If I get retail CPUs, are the stock coolers reasonably quiet or should I plan to replace them with something else?
RAM: The SuperMicro tested memory list for these motherboards lists from 2133MHz and 2400MHz parts. Does it make any difference which I get?
I can get hold of a Samsung 16 GB ECC DDR4 DIMM SDRAM M391A2K43BB1-CPB and I thought I might start with a single module (for budgetary reasons) and add another one in the future. My reading of the manual for these motherboards suggests that using a single module is OK.
Storage: I already have a couple of WD Red 3TB drives (WD30EFRX) which I’d like to reuse.
I’m thinking of buying another 3 units, to have 5 in total, which I would run as RAIDZ2, i.e. for about 9 TB storage.
Boot device: I thought I would start with a basic USB flash drive, again for budgetary reasons, and consider an SSD (either SATA or M.2) or SATA DOM in the future.
Thank you in advance for any comments!