Ramon Sanchez
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- Oct 13, 2016
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Hi all.
New on this forum and new into Freenas. (I previously worked with Drobo).
After days and days of fighting with the IT corporate dept at my job, asking for help and receiving simply nothing, I decided to act on my own and bought 2x4TB Western Digital discs.
My playground is a network formed by 45 computers running Windows 7-8.1, and a Proliant ML1010G6 Server with WinSrv 2008 R2. Xeon X3430@2.40GHz, 16GB of ECC RAM, and 4x1TB HDD in a hardware RAID (wich i don´t know).
I was planning to install my two new HDD´s in the server but got nice surprises: 1.- There were no more physical space. 2.- The motherboard gets crazy whith HDD´s of more than 2TB. - I did not installed the hard disks, i just read the manual and some webs-
So I started looking for a decent NAS box but found that the good ones were really expensive -just for the box- and the cheap ones had rrrreally low specs.
Discovered that I could get more with -almost- the same money so I started reading about custom NAS boxes and hardware recommendations for Freenas and got to the following: -If it fits Freenas, it fits for any other NAS software haha-
Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X10SLL-S
Processor: Dual Core G3260 @ 3.3GHz, 3MB Cache. LGA1150
RAM: 1x Kingston kvr16e11s8/4. (DDR3, 4GB, 1600MHz, ECC, Unbuffered.
Storage: 2x4 TB Western Digital Datacenter storage. - WD4000F9YZ - I want a mirrored RAID.
Power Supply: Still looking for a Corsair 400-450w psu.
Case: Still looking for a case but Aerocool QS 202 and Coolermaster CPM350 are on my mind.
I ONLY want this build for backups. No virtualization, no video streaming, no special plugins, no AD integration, no shared folders where users are constantly reading/writing info. Just the backups, which will be made weekly or maybe each 15 days.
Mi questions are:
1.- Is this build enough for FreeNAS?
2.- Is a 400w power supply enough? Is it too much?
3.- I know that running ZFS requires 1GB of ram per each TB of storage. Are 4GB of RAM enough? (remember, there are 2x4TB but will be mirrored.)
4.- Is it really worth to run ZFS when you have ECC memory and processor? (Yes, i already know about the importance of ECC RAM and how useless is ZFS without ECC RAM).
5.- Is it ok to run FreeNAS or would i be ok with OpenMediaVault, Nas4Free, or even Fedora with SMB? (I know they do not have ZFS, but not worried since i have ECC RAM)
I consider that it is a "low use" NAS but not sure, so i ask for your help.
Thanks in advance!
New on this forum and new into Freenas. (I previously worked with Drobo).
After days and days of fighting with the IT corporate dept at my job, asking for help and receiving simply nothing, I decided to act on my own and bought 2x4TB Western Digital discs.
My playground is a network formed by 45 computers running Windows 7-8.1, and a Proliant ML1010G6 Server with WinSrv 2008 R2. Xeon X3430@2.40GHz, 16GB of ECC RAM, and 4x1TB HDD in a hardware RAID (wich i don´t know).
I was planning to install my two new HDD´s in the server but got nice surprises: 1.- There were no more physical space. 2.- The motherboard gets crazy whith HDD´s of more than 2TB. - I did not installed the hard disks, i just read the manual and some webs-
So I started looking for a decent NAS box but found that the good ones were really expensive -just for the box- and the cheap ones had rrrreally low specs.
Discovered that I could get more with -almost- the same money so I started reading about custom NAS boxes and hardware recommendations for Freenas and got to the following: -If it fits Freenas, it fits for any other NAS software haha-
Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X10SLL-S
Processor: Dual Core G3260 @ 3.3GHz, 3MB Cache. LGA1150
RAM: 1x Kingston kvr16e11s8/4. (DDR3, 4GB, 1600MHz, ECC, Unbuffered.
Storage: 2x4 TB Western Digital Datacenter storage. - WD4000F9YZ - I want a mirrored RAID.
Power Supply: Still looking for a Corsair 400-450w psu.
Case: Still looking for a case but Aerocool QS 202 and Coolermaster CPM350 are on my mind.
I ONLY want this build for backups. No virtualization, no video streaming, no special plugins, no AD integration, no shared folders where users are constantly reading/writing info. Just the backups, which will be made weekly or maybe each 15 days.
Mi questions are:
1.- Is this build enough for FreeNAS?
2.- Is a 400w power supply enough? Is it too much?
3.- I know that running ZFS requires 1GB of ram per each TB of storage. Are 4GB of RAM enough? (remember, there are 2x4TB but will be mirrored.)
4.- Is it really worth to run ZFS when you have ECC memory and processor? (Yes, i already know about the importance of ECC RAM and how useless is ZFS without ECC RAM).
5.- Is it ok to run FreeNAS or would i be ok with OpenMediaVault, Nas4Free, or even Fedora with SMB? (I know they do not have ZFS, but not worried since i have ECC RAM)
I consider that it is a "low use" NAS but not sure, so i ask for your help.
Thanks in advance!
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