Hello all, been building PCs for awhile but this will be my first NAS. I am aiming to repurpose quite a bit of hardware from my old PC that is certainly dated but has been working flawlessly for quite some time. I did have a few questions which I will add after my hardware list.
My planned files would mainly be family pictures, movies/tv shows (I'd add Plex, that's why I'm leaning toward having a GPU), family recipes, as well as important documents (tax info, titles, birth certs etc). The documents would get backed up to google drive (or similar) but we have too many pictures for me to justify paying a monthly google drive/icloud subscription any longer. I would rather drop capacity and gain redundancy VS a "balls out" performance setup. I may also "offload" steam games from my C drive that I don't play all that often to it as well, I am undecided on that.
Mobo: Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe (Link)
CPU: Intel i7-3770k
Ram: 32gb of Corsair Dominator Platinum, CL9, I forget the speed
PSU: EVGA Supernova 650w w/hybrid fan
GPU: EVGA GTX1050 or 1080, I have both laying around
HDDs: Undecided, likely 4-6tb WD Reds
Boot: I was going to use a cheap SSD hooked up to one of the internal 6gb ports (there are 4)
Caching: I was going to use smaller SSDs for this, sub 500gb hooked up to the internal 6gb sata ports (there are 4)
HBA(s): This I don't know on. I will likely run an 8 port LSI HBA but I don't know what brand to get. Would it be better to put the caching drive(s) on the HBA or on the mobo?
I really have 2 main questions:
1) If I have a mobo/cpu failure, how difficult is it to replace those components and get the system back up and running? I would imagine it is a pretty simple but this is all new to me.
2) Is this file system expandable? IE lets say I run 6 drives now in Z3, am I able to say increase that to 10 drives by adding the new drives to the existing pool or does it need to be scrapped and start fresh?
My planned files would mainly be family pictures, movies/tv shows (I'd add Plex, that's why I'm leaning toward having a GPU), family recipes, as well as important documents (tax info, titles, birth certs etc). The documents would get backed up to google drive (or similar) but we have too many pictures for me to justify paying a monthly google drive/icloud subscription any longer. I would rather drop capacity and gain redundancy VS a "balls out" performance setup. I may also "offload" steam games from my C drive that I don't play all that often to it as well, I am undecided on that.
Mobo: Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe (Link)
CPU: Intel i7-3770k
Ram: 32gb of Corsair Dominator Platinum, CL9, I forget the speed
PSU: EVGA Supernova 650w w/hybrid fan
GPU: EVGA GTX1050 or 1080, I have both laying around
HDDs: Undecided, likely 4-6tb WD Reds
Boot: I was going to use a cheap SSD hooked up to one of the internal 6gb ports (there are 4)
Caching: I was going to use smaller SSDs for this, sub 500gb hooked up to the internal 6gb sata ports (there are 4)
HBA(s): This I don't know on. I will likely run an 8 port LSI HBA but I don't know what brand to get. Would it be better to put the caching drive(s) on the HBA or on the mobo?
I really have 2 main questions:
1) If I have a mobo/cpu failure, how difficult is it to replace those components and get the system back up and running? I would imagine it is a pretty simple but this is all new to me.
2) Is this file system expandable? IE lets say I run 6 drives now in Z3, am I able to say increase that to 10 drives by adding the new drives to the existing pool or does it need to be scrapped and start fresh?