smartyarts
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Hi there,
I'm having the following hardware:
Asus N3150M-E
8GB RAM (non ECC)
3x WD RED 4 TB
1x SSD for the OS (FreeNAS planned)
I want to have a local file server in my house for backing up my photographs, movies, music, docs etc. I know that RAID is not a backup solution - so I have my precious data stored on my workstation and additionally I want to keep copies on the file server.
It should be accessible by all devices (MACs, PC and media player raspberry pi) in the household over Gigabit. For that I'm using a GbE Switch.
I'm having several problems: 1. The motherboard has only 2 SATA ports.
I was thinking of buying a SAS 2008 based HBA and connect the WD REDs to it.
I planned to set the drives as software RAID5 up. However I'm unsure about it as I read many arguments against it. Also my current Mainboard does not support ECC RAM, so my plan will fail anyway?
Shall I get a another WD RED drive (in order to total 4)?
Does it make sense at all, what I would like to do with FreeNAS?
What would you recommend me to do? I'm sorry but I'm so puzzled and I just try to avoid any heavy investments.
I used Windows 10 as a file server before but I would not get higher data rates than 40MB/s when copying from Mac to the Windows 10 file server over the GbE. It seems that Samba on Windows is not the same like on FreeBSD or FreeNAS.
Would you mind telling me what would be a good backup plan in my case?
kind regards
Marcin
I'm having the following hardware:
Asus N3150M-E
8GB RAM (non ECC)
3x WD RED 4 TB
1x SSD for the OS (FreeNAS planned)
I want to have a local file server in my house for backing up my photographs, movies, music, docs etc. I know that RAID is not a backup solution - so I have my precious data stored on my workstation and additionally I want to keep copies on the file server.
It should be accessible by all devices (MACs, PC and media player raspberry pi) in the household over Gigabit. For that I'm using a GbE Switch.
I'm having several problems: 1. The motherboard has only 2 SATA ports.
I was thinking of buying a SAS 2008 based HBA and connect the WD REDs to it.
I planned to set the drives as software RAID5 up. However I'm unsure about it as I read many arguments against it. Also my current Mainboard does not support ECC RAM, so my plan will fail anyway?
Shall I get a another WD RED drive (in order to total 4)?
Does it make sense at all, what I would like to do with FreeNAS?
What would you recommend me to do? I'm sorry but I'm so puzzled and I just try to avoid any heavy investments.
I used Windows 10 as a file server before but I would not get higher data rates than 40MB/s when copying from Mac to the Windows 10 file server over the GbE. It seems that Samba on Windows is not the same like on FreeBSD or FreeNAS.
Would you mind telling me what would be a good backup plan in my case?
kind regards
Marcin
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