Hi all,
since this is my first Post, a short introduction first.
I'm Michael, 36yo from Germany.
Round about 20 years of Linux experience of which are about 8 in Professional environments.
With BSD I didn't have contact so far, other than trying it out very briefly in a VM here and there.
Anyway. I was reading up the last weeks about a NAS system. It shall mainly be for backing up my laptop (linux) and my wife's laptop (windows).
Additionally I could imagine it as storage for some smaller projects with SBCs (thinking docker/kubernetes currently).
Streaming a la Plex is not a topic. VMs I probably won't run on the NAS either, as I'd either set up a small SBC (arm based) system or run a VM on my laptop instead.
Currently I have a HP Microserver N54L with 4GB RAM and 4x 1TB WD RED and which I switched between openmediavault and freenas recently just for getting to know either system a bit better.
I decided against omv in favor of freenas mainly because omv (4.x) appeared a bit immature. zfs handling was a pita compared to freenas and btrfs is not an option for me (I don't trust that FS anymore) and iscsi is not available in the 4x branch.
Since the HP box is quite a pain to deal with when it comes to accessing the hardware I was considering using my old Yeong Yang Cube.
I could get my hands on a Kit including Intel Xeon E3-1230v3, 4x 8GB DDR3 PC12800 CL11 ECC UDIMM, Supermicro X10SLL-F for 220 Euro.
I think the CPU would be a bit too much for my needs, so I would replace it with a Pentium G3250 (40 euro) and sell the Xeon again (current offers in the bay are about 140 euro.) I would add a Dell H310 card, which I'd flash to IT mode (round about 50 Euro). Adding a Chieftec CBP-3141SAS cage for about 90 Euro.
So, the case, PSU and disks and sas cables I already have,
MoBo, Xeon, Ram = 220 (selling the Xeon for 140) = 80 Euro
Pentium G3250 = 40
Dell H310 = 50
HDD Cage = 90
So for round about 260 Euro I could have quite a decent NAS, don't you think?
It would also allow me to add another HDD Cage and expand the storage by another 4 HDs
Optional Parts would be
a USB Splitter for having the OS flash drives inside the case. I won't need a front panel anyway
two USB flash drives (alternatively only one from the many different sticks I already have.)
Would the Pentium be enough to handle an encrypted zfs pool or would the xeon be better suited for that?
since this is my first Post, a short introduction first.
I'm Michael, 36yo from Germany.
Round about 20 years of Linux experience of which are about 8 in Professional environments.
With BSD I didn't have contact so far, other than trying it out very briefly in a VM here and there.
Anyway. I was reading up the last weeks about a NAS system. It shall mainly be for backing up my laptop (linux) and my wife's laptop (windows).
Additionally I could imagine it as storage for some smaller projects with SBCs (thinking docker/kubernetes currently).
Streaming a la Plex is not a topic. VMs I probably won't run on the NAS either, as I'd either set up a small SBC (arm based) system or run a VM on my laptop instead.
Currently I have a HP Microserver N54L with 4GB RAM and 4x 1TB WD RED and which I switched between openmediavault and freenas recently just for getting to know either system a bit better.
I decided against omv in favor of freenas mainly because omv (4.x) appeared a bit immature. zfs handling was a pita compared to freenas and btrfs is not an option for me (I don't trust that FS anymore) and iscsi is not available in the 4x branch.
Since the HP box is quite a pain to deal with when it comes to accessing the hardware I was considering using my old Yeong Yang Cube.
I could get my hands on a Kit including Intel Xeon E3-1230v3, 4x 8GB DDR3 PC12800 CL11 ECC UDIMM, Supermicro X10SLL-F for 220 Euro.
I think the CPU would be a bit too much for my needs, so I would replace it with a Pentium G3250 (40 euro) and sell the Xeon again (current offers in the bay are about 140 euro.) I would add a Dell H310 card, which I'd flash to IT mode (round about 50 Euro). Adding a Chieftec CBP-3141SAS cage for about 90 Euro.
So, the case, PSU and disks and sas cables I already have,
MoBo, Xeon, Ram = 220 (selling the Xeon for 140) = 80 Euro
Pentium G3250 = 40
Dell H310 = 50
HDD Cage = 90
So for round about 260 Euro I could have quite a decent NAS, don't you think?
It would also allow me to add another HDD Cage and expand the storage by another 4 HDs
Optional Parts would be
a USB Splitter for having the OS flash drives inside the case. I won't need a front panel anyway
two USB flash drives (alternatively only one from the many different sticks I already have.)
Would the Pentium be enough to handle an encrypted zfs pool or would the xeon be better suited for that?