GWasp
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Will it FreeNAS?
Building my first FreeNAS server, for personal home use. I'm expecting this will likely be overspec'd and am happy with that, but would like to know where it might be underspec'd or not compatible. Near silent running is also very important.
Concerns/questions
I have built workstations before and had a NAS4Free server running for a few months or so as a proof of concept on ancient hardware. I'm a developer and comfortable with using a shell, but am new to FreeNAS.
Looking forward to some feedback and hoping to catch some Cyber Monday pricing though doubtful, thanks
MOBO Supermicro MBD-X10SRI-F LGA 2011-3
CPU Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 Broadwell-EP
FAN Noctua NH-U12DXi4
RAM 32GB (2x16GB) Samsung DDR4 2133 M393A2G40EB1-CPB
HDDs (old) Seagate 2x 4TB ST4000DM000 + extra new 4TB ?
CASE (old) Lian Li V1100
PSU (old) Seasonic S12 500W SS-500HT (over 10 years old but good condition)
UPS will likely choose later before go live
CPU Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 Broadwell-EP
FAN Noctua NH-U12DXi4
RAM 32GB (2x16GB) Samsung DDR4 2133 M393A2G40EB1-CPB
HDDs (old) Seagate 2x 4TB ST4000DM000 + extra new 4TB ?
CASE (old) Lian Li V1100
PSU (old) Seasonic S12 500W SS-500HT (over 10 years old but good condition)
UPS will likely choose later before go live
Building my first FreeNAS server, for personal home use. I'm expecting this will likely be overspec'd and am happy with that, but would like to know where it might be underspec'd or not compatible. Near silent running is also very important.
Primary Use Cases
- Serving flac files over either SMB or dnla
- Time machine backup
- Photo storage, possibly some processing if that makes sense
- Offsite backup sync tbc likely AWS Glacier or crashplan, subject to upload bandwidth constraints
- Storing and transcoding DVD rips
- Serving video files to Kodi running on a RPi
- Running VMs in a jail for hobby experimentation dev projects
Concerns/questions
- PSU quite old though is in good condition and I believe is compatible and powerful enough so would rather not have to get a new one unless really necessary. It has 4 SATA connectors
- RAM Supermicro recommends M393A2G40DB0-CPB but I am considering M393A2G40EB1-CPB because it is more generally available and appears to be just a newer revision with the same specs from the Samsung guide how bad idea is this?
- MOBO it was a toss up between MBD-X10SRI-F and MBD-X10SRL-F.
I'm going for ATX due to the case which I am quite attached to - HDD I already have these and really want to make use of them for the NAS. I originally intended on going for just the 2 of them in RAIDZ1 vdev. Now I am reconsidering if I should add more to get RAIDZ2 if I'm correct it is actually better to get a different brand (say WD), is there any other compatibility points I should be aware of? Is 2 more drives appropriate or should I go for more upfront, I'm not particularly concerned about space as I originally felt 4TB would be ample.
I have built workstations before and had a NAS4Free server running for a few months or so as a proof of concept on ancient hardware. I'm a developer and comfortable with using a shell, but am new to FreeNAS.
Looking forward to some feedback and hoping to catch some Cyber Monday pricing though doubtful, thanks