Ray H.
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- Feb 24, 2017
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Hello all,
This is my first FreeNAS build. I've put it together based on a lot of information I've read. I plan on using this build only as a NAS, primarily as a backup location for family pictures (in addition to Amazon Cloud backup) and media storage feeding a Plex install on a separate machine. It's for this reason I'm going with an i3 processor, as opposed to something more powerful.
I have two 2TB WD Red drives in my Netgear ReadyNAS that I plan to migrate into my FreeNAS. I'll be adding 4 more 2TB drives in a RAIDZ2, for 8TB of usable space. Sometime in the future I may expand (replacing each drive, resilvering in between), but I'm going to be jumping from 2TB (mirrored) to 8TB (RAIDZ2), so I think I'll be good for quite some time.
In order to ensure I do not end up with a "bad batch" of hard drives, I've selected two different vendors for the new drives. A concern here is that the Seagate Ironwolf drives rotate at 5900RPM, vs the WD Red drives which rotate at 5500RPM. Is that something I need to worry about? Would I be better off ordering 2 WD Red drives from Amazon and 2 from Newegg, in order to get separate batches? Edit: Going with this option.
Edit: My final purchase is listed below. Looking forward to getting it up and running!
Items:
Case: LianLi PC-Q25B - Newegg
Mobo: ASRock E3C236D2I Mini ITX - Newegg
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 - Newegg
Kingston ValueRAM 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 2133 KVR21E15D8K2/32I - Newegg
Power Supply: CORSAIR RM550X 550W (Ericlowe's recommendation) - Newegg
Mobo: ASRock E3C226D2I Mini ITX - Newegg
Hard Drives: 4x WD Red 2TB WD20EFRX - Newegg (buying 2 Newegg & 2 Amazon)
USB Boot Drives: 2x(mirrored) SanDisk 32GB Ultra Fit CZ43 - Newegg
This is not my first PC build by far, but it is the first with such a dedicated purpose, as opposed to general use.
Thanks.
This is my first FreeNAS build. I've put it together based on a lot of information I've read. I plan on using this build only as a NAS, primarily as a backup location for family pictures (in addition to Amazon Cloud backup) and media storage feeding a Plex install on a separate machine. It's for this reason I'm going with an i3 processor, as opposed to something more powerful.
I have two 2TB WD Red drives in my Netgear ReadyNAS that I plan to migrate into my FreeNAS. I'll be adding 4 more 2TB drives in a RAIDZ2, for 8TB of usable space. Sometime in the future I may expand (replacing each drive, resilvering in between), but I'm going to be jumping from 2TB (mirrored) to 8TB (RAIDZ2), so I think I'll be good for quite some time.
Edit: My final purchase is listed below. Looking forward to getting it up and running!
Items:
Case: LianLi PC-Q25B - Newegg
Mobo: ASRock E3C236D2I Mini ITX - Newegg
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 - Newegg
Kingston ValueRAM 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 2133 KVR21E15D8K2/32I - Newegg
Power Supply: CORSAIR RM550X 550W (Ericlowe's recommendation) - Newegg
Mobo: ASRock E3C226D2I Mini ITX - Newegg
Hard Drives: 4x WD Red 2TB WD20EFRX - Newegg (buying 2 Newegg & 2 Amazon)
USB Boot Drives: 2x(mirrored) SanDisk 32GB Ultra Fit CZ43 - Newegg
This is not my first PC build by far, but it is the first with such a dedicated purpose, as opposed to general use.
Thanks.
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