Hello everyone,
I am thinking of building a new NAS which is way more capable than my QNAP TS259.
Here is what the NAS will do:
Motherboard:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G9TZHSQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
RAM:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008EMA5VU/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
CPU:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J2LIE9C/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Case:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ET0OFJY/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Power Supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151114
I am thinking of booting the FreeNAS off of a USB flash drive.
Is this a reasonable build?
I also have some questions.
Is the Celeron CPU fast enough or I should go for an I3 or I5?
I don't want to invest in the storage too much at the moment. What's the minimum number of drives I need to install to get the redundancy benefits of ZFS?
Should I buy the hard drives marked as "NAS" hard drives?
I've seen some builds with 5400rpm drives. Is that the way to go?
I've read somewhere that I might need a *controller* hardware for FreeNAS. What's this controller?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.
I am thinking of building a new NAS which is way more capable than my QNAP TS259.
Here is what the NAS will do:
- Serve HD media content to 2 boxes running XBMC. They won't necessarily be used simultaneously.
- Sabnzbd, couchpotato and sickbeard configuration. So there will be quite a bit of unraring.
- Transmission.
- File server for storing thousands of family pictures and videos
- Upload backups to Google Drive.
Motherboard:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G9TZHSQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
RAM:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008EMA5VU/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
CPU:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J2LIE9C/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Case:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ET0OFJY/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Power Supply:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151114
I am thinking of booting the FreeNAS off of a USB flash drive.
Is this a reasonable build?
I also have some questions.
Is the Celeron CPU fast enough or I should go for an I3 or I5?
I don't want to invest in the storage too much at the moment. What's the minimum number of drives I need to install to get the redundancy benefits of ZFS?
Should I buy the hard drives marked as "NAS" hard drives?
I've seen some builds with 5400rpm drives. Is that the way to go?
I've read somewhere that I might need a *controller* hardware for FreeNAS. What's this controller?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers.