Help with Noob Build

[malibumike]

Hi folks,

While i'm sort of on the fence about building a freenas, I have seen that it is fairly affordable, especially considering the cost of Synology, or Qnap Nas units. I've been tinking around newegg and put this together. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if it's powerful enough for streaming hd video, music, and photos to multiple devices concurrently (no more than two devices at a time). Also, would like to know if there's anything here that won't work with freenas. and possible gains on read/write speeds to the unit I might see. I currently have high speed cable internet, with speed boost, and a Cisco EA4500 router. I can write to a drive connected to the router at 16 mbs...Hoping this system can do much better? If not maybe I shouldn't build.

Motherboard:
ASUS C60M1-I AMD Fusion APU C-60 (1.0GHz, dual core) AMD Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo

HD:
WD 3TB Red

Memory:
8gb (4 x 2) Corsair 1333 memory (I know the board says it only excepts 1046, but i'm assuming the memory will work at the slower speed?)...if not I can use it for my main machine.

Power Supply (Sitting in a box at home):
Antec 500w Earthwatts (has 5 sata, but could buy molex to sata adapter eventually?)

USB thumb Drive:
8 gb Sandisk low profile

Case:
Fractal Design Define Mini Black Micro ATX Silent PC Computer Case w/ USB 3.0 support and 2 x 120mm Fractal Design Silent Fans

 

[tropic]

I'm of the opinion that the C-60 is just too wimpy for CIFS transfers in FreeNAS. Tack on poor FreeBSD support for the RTL8111F, and it's pretty much a waste of money. Here's the dirt on the rsync pull my ASUS C60M1-I has been doing for the last five hours:

 

[JaimieV]

Mike, take a look at the HP Microserver N40L - it's fast enough to do dual 1080p HD streams, my (slower) N36L can handle that.

 

[Stephens]

I was thinking of getting a C60M1-I since I can't get the E35M1-I anymore, but a little bit of reading deterred me from that. My E35M1-I's are barely fast enough for my needs and FreeNAS seems to be moving to using more resources and requiring more power with each release. Even if one can deal with the less than stellar CIFS performance of the C60, one should also be aware of what scrub times will be like on a moderately sized system.

That said, I currenly get about 60-80MB/s without too much optimization and no overclocking (I could saturate my gigabit with overclocking). Also, I don't know if anyone else noticed this but the thermal paste on the Hudson MB's sucks. I hate building computers, so I haven't replaced mine, but if that's your type of thing, you can get temps much lower by replacing the stock paste with some Arctic Silver 7.

Why Asus stopped making the E35M1-I and apparently never made a E45M1-I (6 SATA... they only make a "Deluxe" version without 6 SATA) and keeps making the C60M1-I is beyond me, but that's how it goes. An E45M1-I with 6 SATA ports would be a great low end FreeNAS motherboard.