First time building Freenas

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apb0703

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Hello,

New to the forums and new to Freenas. I am a current Windows Home Server user and I am looking at building something new.

I am hoping someone can give me some suggestions. I have read through some of the hardware recommendations and this is what I have decided on.

Case:

Silverstone Tek Premium Mini-ITX

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IAELTAI/?tag=ozlp-20


Power Supply:

Silverstone Tek 450-Watts SFX Form Factor Full Modular Power Supply with 80 Plus Gold, SFX+12V single rail, ST45SF-G

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008VQ2Y4K/?tag=ozlp-20



Motherboard:

ASUS H87I-PLUS LGA 1150 Intel H87 Mini ITX Motherboard

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CXIY468/?tag=ozlp-20




Ram
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL9 @1.5V UDIMM 240-Pin

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006YG9EEW/?tag=ozlp-20


Processor

Intel Core I3-4160 Processor 3.60 GHz, 2-Core LGA1150 Socket, Hyper-Threading

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LV8U0VE/?tag=ozlp-20


Hard Drive

I will be using 4 6tb WD Red

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LO3KR96/?tag=ozlp-20



The only thing that worries me about that build is the ram. Is it to low?

I was also looking at this build


Case:

Fractal Design Mini Case

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085RR0TY/?tag=ozlp-20



Power Supply:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00918MEZG/?tag=ozlp-20


Motherboard:

ASUS P8B75-M/CSM LGA 1155 Intel B75 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007RIFMQA/?tag=ozlp-20




Ram

Crucial Ballistix Sport 32GB Kit (8GBx4) DDR3 1600 MT/s (PC3-12800) CL9 @1.5V UDIMM 240-Pin Memory BLS4CP8G3D1609DS1S00

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006WAGGUK/?tag=ozlp-20

Processor:
Intel Core i3-3240 Dual-Core Processor 3.4 Ghz 3 MB Cache LGA 1155

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0093H8GQG/?tag=ozlp-20


Hard Drives:

WD Red 6TB x4

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LO3KR96/?tag=ozlp-20


Should I go with the second build so I can have more Ram? or would the first build be ok with 16 gb or ram and 24 tb storage?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
 

HoneyBadger

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Hello apb,

Please have a look at the stickied hardware recommendation thread in this forum. Specifically you need to look at ECC RAM and a motherboard that supports it. Your drives, CPU, and chassis should all be fine, as the i3 will support ECC RAM in a proper motherboard.

Regarding the choice of builds, assuming you are a typical home user storing media, you would be safe with the first (16GB RAM/24TB storage) build. "1GB per 1TB" is a rule of thumb regarding performance, and most home users have some wiggle room to undercut it a little. If you are going to connect ESXi/Xenserver/other hypervisors to this though, you may want to consider the second build.
 

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And why on earth are you not planning on ECC RAM?

There are several miniITX solutions that are known to work, so read the hardware recommendations sticky.

You may want 32GB depending on the workload, but 16GB should be enough.
 

sdgenxr

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Just my $0.02 here, what about using 6 4TB drives? The cost per TB is substantially lower and both cases have enough space.
 

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NineFingers

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You'll be happy with the case and motherboard -- I just built the same thing. I just put in a heftier CPU (E3-1241 v3) -- WAY more than I needed, but I didn't know what I'd be doing with it down the road. The build was pretty simple (I'm a novice). I also chose three of the Mushkin 16g thumb drives... they were nice and small, and fit in the USB slots up front without providing a snag hazard. I REALLY appreciate the ability to do remote power state changes, which the motherboard provides via IPMI.
 

NineFingers

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... and another thing... Fractal Design's customer service is pretty darned good. I somehow folded over the bottom filter screen... I e-mailed them asking where I could purchase one, and they sent me one for free!
 

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Fraoch

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The hardware guides I was reading say you don't need anything but the stock cooler.

However my case is open at the top and lets out a lot of noise. Just to quiet things down, a Noctua NH-U12S is on its way:

http://noctua.at/main.php?show=productview&products_id=63&lng=en

It's about the quietest CPU cooler out there. Cooling performance is excellent as well, but even the stock cooler is cooling fine in my setup.
 
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