loch_nas
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Hi community,
After deciding that FreeNAS suits all my needs for storing my home and work data, I would like to verify my selection of hardware.
Here's my selection:
What I already have:
Tasks of the system:
At the moment I have about 1,7 TB of more or less important data.
My plan is to swap the 4 TB Disks with 6 TB Disks if I reach about 60% of usable disk space.
The USV APC Back-UPS ES may not be the best choice, but it's not very expensive and I think that a cheap USV is better than nothing.
I have chosen a mainboard with the Atom C2750, because I want to buid a FreeNAS system with low power consumption. This system will run 24 hours per day.
My questions about my selected hardware:
Will the Intel Atom C2750 8-core suit my needs or should I rather have a look at the ASRock Rack E3C226D2I bundled with a i3 or Xeon CPU?
I surely want to keep the system rather small and simple and so I'm hoping to hit the sweet spot of my needs with the Atom 8-core (for this moment of life).
Is the 4x GB Lan Controller of the Supermicro A1SAi-2750F fully compatible with FreeNAS?
Are there any other concerns about my selection?
Thanks in advance!
After deciding that FreeNAS suits all my needs for storing my home and work data, I would like to verify my selection of hardware.
Here's my selection:
- 1x Supermicro A1SAi-2750F
- with Intel Atom C2750 8-core
- 4x Western Digital WD Red 4TB
- RAID 1 + 0
- 2x Crucial SO-DIMM 8GB, DDR3L-1600, CL11, ECC (CT102472BF160B)
- 1x Sea Sonic G-Series G-360 360W ATX 2.3 (SSR-360GP)
- 1x Noctua NF-A6x25-PWM
- for CPU cooling if needed
- 2x SanDisk Ultra 16GB
- mirrored boot device
- 1x APC Back-UPS ES 700VA
What I already have:
- alu case with a 4-bay hot-swap drive cage and 1 front intake fan (14 mm)
- a lot of fans for air-flow optimization
- some external hard disks for back up
Tasks of the system:
- clean and reliable data storage and data share for 2 to 3 people
- compression of data
- cloud server for 2 to 3 people
- max. 2 virtual machines (jail) mostly for testing
At the moment I have about 1,7 TB of more or less important data.
My plan is to swap the 4 TB Disks with 6 TB Disks if I reach about 60% of usable disk space.
The USV APC Back-UPS ES may not be the best choice, but it's not very expensive and I think that a cheap USV is better than nothing.
I have chosen a mainboard with the Atom C2750, because I want to buid a FreeNAS system with low power consumption. This system will run 24 hours per day.
My questions about my selected hardware:
Will the Intel Atom C2750 8-core suit my needs or should I rather have a look at the ASRock Rack E3C226D2I bundled with a i3 or Xeon CPU?
I surely want to keep the system rather small and simple and so I'm hoping to hit the sweet spot of my needs with the Atom 8-core (for this moment of life).
Is the 4x GB Lan Controller of the Supermicro A1SAi-2750F fully compatible with FreeNAS?
Are there any other concerns about my selection?
Thanks in advance!
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