Hi. I am 100% new to servers in general. I just need some direction with a few things
My parents and I share a photography hobby and we've like 20 Tb in photos overall. So far, we all have been keeping our photos in external HDDs but A) it's impractical, especially when we need to share files (mostly because my dad is aging and he just can't use google Drive) and B) we've already experienced the pain of losing a disk with lots of photos before. So i want to build a NAS for us 3.
However, i am also planning on building a PC for them (using some components i already had from my recently upgraded gaming PC)for photo editing (they've been using their laptops but those are quite old and slow and it's really annoying to have to service them like every 3 months because "it's getting too slow").
So what i was thinking in maybe housing the NAS and a regular windows 10 PC in the same tower, to reduce some expenses and (very importantly) save some space (they are moving to a country house... More like a cabin, and it's really small).
I have a bunch of SSDs I'm not using now and i already have basically everything for the windows machine (listed bellow) and would only need to buy the HDDs for mass storage... And maybe a NIC.
Hardware:
AMD Ryzen 5600g
B450 AORUS pro wifi mobo
A nice BeQuiet! Dark rock tf cooler
3 x sata SSD (120, 250 and 256 Gb; different brands and specs... All are DRAM-less)
16 Gb (2X8) DDR4 3200 mhz non-ecc RAM
550w PSU from EVGA (80+ white)
Case: phanteks p400s
Peripherals...
Will be buying: 2 or 3 x HDD 4 tb each
With this stuff as context:
1) is it possible?
2) can i install freeNAS in one of those SSDs and Windows in another SSD?
3) is it really a bad idea (I've read some older posts basically saying this but... Still i want to get my own answers haha)
So... You surely have already notice with those questions how ignorant i am about this stuff, but we all start from 0 i guess.
My parents and I share a photography hobby and we've like 20 Tb in photos overall. So far, we all have been keeping our photos in external HDDs but A) it's impractical, especially when we need to share files (mostly because my dad is aging and he just can't use google Drive) and B) we've already experienced the pain of losing a disk with lots of photos before. So i want to build a NAS for us 3.
However, i am also planning on building a PC for them (using some components i already had from my recently upgraded gaming PC)for photo editing (they've been using their laptops but those are quite old and slow and it's really annoying to have to service them like every 3 months because "it's getting too slow").
So what i was thinking in maybe housing the NAS and a regular windows 10 PC in the same tower, to reduce some expenses and (very importantly) save some space (they are moving to a country house... More like a cabin, and it's really small).
I have a bunch of SSDs I'm not using now and i already have basically everything for the windows machine (listed bellow) and would only need to buy the HDDs for mass storage... And maybe a NIC.
Hardware:
AMD Ryzen 5600g
B450 AORUS pro wifi mobo
A nice BeQuiet! Dark rock tf cooler
3 x sata SSD (120, 250 and 256 Gb; different brands and specs... All are DRAM-less)
16 Gb (2X8) DDR4 3200 mhz non-ecc RAM
550w PSU from EVGA (80+ white)
Case: phanteks p400s
Peripherals...
Will be buying: 2 or 3 x HDD 4 tb each
With this stuff as context:
1) is it possible?
2) can i install freeNAS in one of those SSDs and Windows in another SSD?
3) is it really a bad idea (I've read some older posts basically saying this but... Still i want to get my own answers haha)
So... You surely have already notice with those questions how ignorant i am about this stuff, but we all start from 0 i guess.