I am looking to build or buy a freenas system and I am trying to decide on the hardware. The problem I am having is that most of the guides that I have found are using older outdated hardware and larger quantity ecc ddr3 seems to to be hard to find at a reasonable price. I would also like it to be power efficient.
The usage will be in a church backing up video and audio files. Currently we have about 6.5 TB stored on a drobo and about 1.5 TB being added yearly. We are looking at switching to a higher quality video and will need much more storage than we currently have. I am thinking about 8x 4 TB drives with a 2 drive redundancy but thinking of possibly going larger.
I would like to keep costs down and I am trying to get a rough estimate on total cost buying vs building. I was looking at a asrock rack mini C2550D4I. The problem I am having is if we go with larger drives we will need more ram and I was not able to find any 16 GB ram sticks. I was also considering a used server on ebay or possibly a freenas mini xl.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
The usage will be in a church backing up video and audio files. Currently we have about 6.5 TB stored on a drobo and about 1.5 TB being added yearly. We are looking at switching to a higher quality video and will need much more storage than we currently have. I am thinking about 8x 4 TB drives with a 2 drive redundancy but thinking of possibly going larger.
I would like to keep costs down and I am trying to get a rough estimate on total cost buying vs building. I was looking at a asrock rack mini C2550D4I. The problem I am having is if we go with larger drives we will need more ram and I was not able to find any 16 GB ram sticks. I was also considering a used server on ebay or possibly a freenas mini xl.
Any suggestions would be welcome.