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[tbuff1]

Hello all!

Stumbled upon this place and couldn't leave! As I started digging in to it I became more and more intrigued.

Originally I was looking for a central storage and backup place, I have read a lot about FreeNAS and decided to give it a shot. Planning out the system now and made my first acquisition of parts with 6 HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS drives and am looking forward to getting the rest of the parts together.

Next step, finding the right motherboard!

 

[m0nkey_]

Check the hardware recommendations guide: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/

 

[gpsguy]

Welcome to the forums!

Look in the reource section for an excellent treatise written by @Ericloewe

 

[tbuff1]

Thanks for the info, I went mostly by the recommendations and ordered the following.

• xeon e3-1230 v5 Skylake 3.4 GHz
• Supermicro x11ssh-tf board
• 2x 16GB 2133 DDR4 w/eec Ram

plus all the extras case, cpu cooler, etc. Looking fwd to getting going on this thing!