After a couple years of lurking and researching through the forums I recently took the plunge and built my first FreeNAS server to replace an aging Synology DS1512+ which was primarily used for backup storage and as a plex server.
Basic details of the build:
Basic details of the build:
- Define R5
- 8x4TB drives, RAIDZ2 (4 WD Red, 4 Seagate)
- 64GB SSD for the boot drive
- Supermicro X11SSM-F
- 16GB RAM (planning to upgrade to 32GB at some point)
- i3-6300
- LSI 9211-8i
- Seasonic Focus Gold 650FX