LivingInTheDatabase
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tl;dr: If you could spend ~$1,000 on a rackmount FreeNAS server, what would you buy?
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Context: Hi Everyone! I've read a dozen different tutorials including the official FreeNAS hardware guides and posting on reddit, and I've gotten to the point where I'm just feeling lost from all the unfamiliar considerations with rackmount hardware. I currently run a gaming server on a VPS, a few small LAMP-stack website instances in the cloud, and I have a 6x8tb FreeNAS backup & media server that my siblings access over OpenVPN. I use a rackmount cabinet to keep all my equipment tidy because I live in an open floor plan apartment but I don't have any rackmount servers yet.
Goals: I want to purchase a rackmount server to separate my media server from my backup server, which I'll keep on my current FreeNAS box. I'd like to be able to run my gaming server off the new rackmount and experiment with virtualization a bit. I already have extra 3.5" drives so I'd prefer a case that fits them.
Limitations: Noise is a real concern because my apartment is essentially one giant room. I was hoping to spend about $1,000 but I can spend more if people think I should.
Plan: Buy a used 4U Supermicro server off ebay and swap the fans and PSU to make it quiet(er). I won't need all the bays for the foreseeable future, so I think I can get away with this. I am looking at the one below and will consider asking for more, denser ram. I've found cheaper servers but they tend to use motherboards like the X9DRI-F that others on this forum have described as inadequate.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/4U-24-Bay-...-2660-8-Core-2-2Ghz-FREENAS-JBOD/142615793012
I'm new to rackmount hardware and I'm feeling paralyzed trying to compare between all the different, unfamiliar hardware options--I tend to learn best by doing. I've been looking at the waters for the last few months and at this point I just need to dive in.
Thank you for your patience. If there's a way I could make this post clearer, please let me know. If you have a better suggestion, tell me, and I will do as the forum wills it.
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Context: Hi Everyone! I've read a dozen different tutorials including the official FreeNAS hardware guides and posting on reddit, and I've gotten to the point where I'm just feeling lost from all the unfamiliar considerations with rackmount hardware. I currently run a gaming server on a VPS, a few small LAMP-stack website instances in the cloud, and I have a 6x8tb FreeNAS backup & media server that my siblings access over OpenVPN. I use a rackmount cabinet to keep all my equipment tidy because I live in an open floor plan apartment but I don't have any rackmount servers yet.
Goals: I want to purchase a rackmount server to separate my media server from my backup server, which I'll keep on my current FreeNAS box. I'd like to be able to run my gaming server off the new rackmount and experiment with virtualization a bit. I already have extra 3.5" drives so I'd prefer a case that fits them.
Limitations: Noise is a real concern because my apartment is essentially one giant room. I was hoping to spend about $1,000 but I can spend more if people think I should.
Plan: Buy a used 4U Supermicro server off ebay and swap the fans and PSU to make it quiet(er). I won't need all the bays for the foreseeable future, so I think I can get away with this. I am looking at the one below and will consider asking for more, denser ram. I've found cheaper servers but they tend to use motherboards like the X9DRI-F that others on this forum have described as inadequate.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/4U-24-Bay-...-2660-8-Core-2-2Ghz-FREENAS-JBOD/142615793012
I'm new to rackmount hardware and I'm feeling paralyzed trying to compare between all the different, unfamiliar hardware options--I tend to learn best by doing. I've been looking at the waters for the last few months and at this point I just need to dive in.
Thank you for your patience. If there's a way I could make this post clearer, please let me know. If you have a better suggestion, tell me, and I will do as the forum wills it.