galacticponny
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- Jan 6, 2019
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Hi FreeNAS community,
After reading docs and the forum I started picking parts for my home NAS. Intended use: File sharing (with compression enabled) for 2 people and occasional single video stream via Plex. I will be thankful for a review of parts I am ordering:
Cpu: Used Intel Pentium G4400 - when prices drop eventually I will replace it with Xeon series. This particular one probably comes from some kind of crypto mining gear -seller has 6 used ones and a bunch of used graphics cards.
MOBO: Asus P10S-I - I know that Supermicro is mostly recommended, but the price difference in my country is quite big.
Ram: Kingston Ktd-pe424e/16g 16gb Ddr4-2400mhz Ecc - again, expensive in my country, but single 16gb module allows further expansion to 32gb on Asus P10S-I
Mini SAS to SATA adapter: Supermicro CBL-SAST-0616 50cm Mini-SAS HD to 4X SATA the board has 6x SATA interfaces, but only two of them have SATA connectors, rest is available via Mini SAS connector.
HDDs:
1x WD Black 1TB WD1003FZEX - This is my old drive I occasionally used in a PC and for backups
2x WD Blue 1TB WD10EZEX - Both brand new
3x WD Red 1TB WD10EFRX - Used drives, each with less than 7000 work hours. Probably taken from old office workstations. Diagnostic tools show good health info.
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS Plus 550 Gold SSR-550FX 550W 80+
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini-ITX
I know going with used drives is not a perfect solution, but I wanted my pool to be 6 drives RAIDZ2 and I got a good deal for these 3 WD Red drives. If drives start failing soon I will replace them with new WD Red 1TB. If none of the drives fails for next 3 years I will gradually replace them with bigger drives to expand my pool.
Best regards,
pon
After reading docs and the forum I started picking parts for my home NAS. Intended use: File sharing (with compression enabled) for 2 people and occasional single video stream via Plex. I will be thankful for a review of parts I am ordering:
Cpu: Used Intel Pentium G4400 - when prices drop eventually I will replace it with Xeon series. This particular one probably comes from some kind of crypto mining gear -seller has 6 used ones and a bunch of used graphics cards.
MOBO: Asus P10S-I - I know that Supermicro is mostly recommended, but the price difference in my country is quite big.
Ram: Kingston Ktd-pe424e/16g 16gb Ddr4-2400mhz Ecc - again, expensive in my country, but single 16gb module allows further expansion to 32gb on Asus P10S-I
Mini SAS to SATA adapter: Supermicro CBL-SAST-0616 50cm Mini-SAS HD to 4X SATA the board has 6x SATA interfaces, but only two of them have SATA connectors, rest is available via Mini SAS connector.
HDDs:
1x WD Black 1TB WD1003FZEX - This is my old drive I occasionally used in a PC and for backups
2x WD Blue 1TB WD10EZEX - Both brand new
3x WD Red 1TB WD10EFRX - Used drives, each with less than 7000 work hours. Probably taken from old office workstations. Diagnostic tools show good health info.
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS Plus 550 Gold SSR-550FX 550W 80+
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini-ITX
I know going with used drives is not a perfect solution, but I wanted my pool to be 6 drives RAIDZ2 and I got a good deal for these 3 WD Red drives. If drives start failing soon I will replace them with new WD Red 1TB. If none of the drives fails for next 3 years I will gradually replace them with bigger drives to expand my pool.
Best regards,
pon