Over the summer I decided I needed a better storage solution for my house. Random unlabeled hard drives scattered all over the place was getting old. Not to mention the death of a couple drives. I looked around and discovered FreeNAS, so thinking "well, I have some old hardware laying around", I decided to give it a shot.
I dug into the pile of things left over from my litecoin mining days and built a machine with the following:
Once things were setup and running, I wanted to get Plex up and running on it. I used to have a Plex server a while back, but when that PC got upgraded, I never got around to setting a new one up. It didn't take very long for me to realize that the G3220 processor wasn't helping me out a whole lot. When I'd look at the reporting graphs, I'd see this thing pegged at 100% for hours at a time overnight while Plex did it's thing. The motherboard would handle an i7-4790K, and Microcenter had them on sale for $250, so I picked one up to put in. While moving things around, I bent a bunch of pins on the ASUS motherboard, so I picked up a ASRock Z97 Extreme6. Yes, I bought a gaming motherboard and processor for a server.
The i7-4790K had been running pretty well for a couple months now when that time of year I call "deduction season" was magically upon us. My 12-ish TB of storage was starting to run short now that I had moved all the random hard drives I had laying around to it, plus all the new media that was being downloaded thanks to Sonarr and Couchpotato. Since I was going to build another pool, I figured I would just go ahead and build a whole new machine that would be big enough that I wouldn't have to worry about upgrading anytime in the near future. I also wanted to consolidate two servers into one by moving the VMs off my ESXi host and onto this one using VirtualBox. Not ideal, but this is all for my house, so I should be fine (I think...).
I spent a lot of time reading the forums. I spent a fair amount of time being chastised for using gaming parts and non-ECC RAM for my server build. I started planning my build and buying parts. Hopefully, everything will finish arriving this week and I can start setting things up over the weekend. Here's the parts list as it stands today:
So, for what I'm looking to do and this hardware list, what do you guys think? Will I be as safe as I think?
I dug into the pile of things left over from my litecoin mining days and built a machine with the following:
- Intel G3220 Processor
- 8GB DDR3-1600
- ASUS Z87-A Motherboard
- Thermaltake Commander G42 mid-tower case
- 6x WD Red 3TB HDD in RAIDZ2
- EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 80+ Gold PSU
Once things were setup and running, I wanted to get Plex up and running on it. I used to have a Plex server a while back, but when that PC got upgraded, I never got around to setting a new one up. It didn't take very long for me to realize that the G3220 processor wasn't helping me out a whole lot. When I'd look at the reporting graphs, I'd see this thing pegged at 100% for hours at a time overnight while Plex did it's thing. The motherboard would handle an i7-4790K, and Microcenter had them on sale for $250, so I picked one up to put in. While moving things around, I bent a bunch of pins on the ASUS motherboard, so I picked up a ASRock Z97 Extreme6. Yes, I bought a gaming motherboard and processor for a server.
The i7-4790K had been running pretty well for a couple months now when that time of year I call "deduction season" was magically upon us. My 12-ish TB of storage was starting to run short now that I had moved all the random hard drives I had laying around to it, plus all the new media that was being downloaded thanks to Sonarr and Couchpotato. Since I was going to build another pool, I figured I would just go ahead and build a whole new machine that would be big enough that I wouldn't have to worry about upgrading anytime in the near future. I also wanted to consolidate two servers into one by moving the VMs off my ESXi host and onto this one using VirtualBox. Not ideal, but this is all for my house, so I should be fine (I think...).
I spent a lot of time reading the forums. I spent a fair amount of time being chastised for using gaming parts and non-ECC RAM for my server build. I started planning my build and buying parts. Hopefully, everything will finish arriving this week and I can start setting things up over the weekend. Here's the parts list as it stands today:
- Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660
- Dual Supermicro 4U Active CPU Heatsink Cooling for X9 UP/DP Systems SNK-P0050AP4
- SuperMicro X9DR3-F
- 128GB (2x 64GB kits of 4x16GB) Kingston KVR16R11D4K4/64 DDR3-1600 Registered ECC RAM
- 2x A-Data Premier Pro SP900 64GB 2.5" SSD
- 6x WD Red 3TB HDD
- 6x WD Red 6TB HDD
- LSI SAS9921-8i HBA
- 24 port expansion card for the 9921-8i (don't eBay while drunk kids)
- Rosewill RSV-L4412 4u chassis
- EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 PSU
So, for what I'm looking to do and this hardware list, what do you guys think? Will I be as safe as I think?