Linkman
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Greetings! First post. Ready to put together my first FreeNAS build, currently searching the forums for recommendations, particularly on hard drive selection. Proposed hardware is in my signature, but to be complete...
Planning on using an existing Cooler Master CM-690 II Advanced mid-tower case, with a 4x3 hard drive expander cage replacing three of the external 5.25 bays. This case would ultimately be able to support 11 or 12 3.5 inch drives, though I am initially planning on six (6) 3TB drives in a RAIDZ2 config. Existing 500W PC Power & Cooling Silencer MkII power supply.
Planning on purchasing a Supermicro MBD-X10SL7-F motherboard, Intel Xeon E3-1241V3 Haswell CPU, and the 2x8GB Crucial ECC RAM kit mentioned in the hardware posts on the Supermicro boards.
Currently have two 3TB WD Red drives, was planning on one more 3TB Red drive, and then either three 3TB WD Greens, or three 3TB Seagate drives, so as not to have too homogeneous a drive pool.
Planning on archive storage of household media, pictures, ripped DVDs, etc., a backup destination for another one or possibly two household computer's home directories, and to run a couple Jails to play around basically. (I also have a Synology 2-bay NAS with 2 3TB WD Reds in RAID 1 that's my existing backup destination, and it will remain as a second backup for everything that's not media.)
Opinions? Any particular 3TB drives that stand out, that I should look at? Thanks!
Planning on using an existing Cooler Master CM-690 II Advanced mid-tower case, with a 4x3 hard drive expander cage replacing three of the external 5.25 bays. This case would ultimately be able to support 11 or 12 3.5 inch drives, though I am initially planning on six (6) 3TB drives in a RAIDZ2 config. Existing 500W PC Power & Cooling Silencer MkII power supply.
Planning on purchasing a Supermicro MBD-X10SL7-F motherboard, Intel Xeon E3-1241V3 Haswell CPU, and the 2x8GB Crucial ECC RAM kit mentioned in the hardware posts on the Supermicro boards.
Currently have two 3TB WD Red drives, was planning on one more 3TB Red drive, and then either three 3TB WD Greens, or three 3TB Seagate drives, so as not to have too homogeneous a drive pool.
Planning on archive storage of household media, pictures, ripped DVDs, etc., a backup destination for another one or possibly two household computer's home directories, and to run a couple Jails to play around basically. (I also have a Synology 2-bay NAS with 2 3TB WD Reds in RAID 1 that's my existing backup destination, and it will remain as a second backup for everything that's not media.)
Opinions? Any particular 3TB drives that stand out, that I should look at? Thanks!