cirss
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- Feb 7, 2013
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Would like to share my recent home NAS build intend to use as file server for DuneHD media player. Hope this will make easer hardware choice for somebody with similar needs. The target was to build small, as possible quiet NAS, capable to handle ~100 MB/s for fast uploads/downloads, 1-3 users, with FTP and NFS share.
Case Mini ITX - Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced RC-120A-KKN1 – 43 eur
Motherboard Asus P8H77-I socket 1155, 4x sata2 + 2x sata3, max 16GB ram – 88 eur
CPU – Intel Pentium G2020 – low cost power efficient Ivy Bridge BX80637G2020 - 50 eur
CPU Cooler - Cooler Master GeminII M4 - RR-GMM4-16PK-R1, used with removed fan – 30 eur
RAM – 8GB DDR3 Kingston (2x4) KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX – 47 eur
HDD 3x 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 – 255 eur
Power - Standard ATX PS2 OCZ 500W OCZ500MXSP-EU – has this one as spare but the good news is that this Mini-ITX case is designed to use standard ATX PSU, take one of your choice.
Total cost: 513 eur + ATX PSU + USB stick for image
FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-p1-x64 (r12825)
ZFS with RAIDZ, no deduplication, no cache, no ZIL, usable storage space 3.6 TB.
Just after build with default FreeNAS 8.3.0.settings speed was 60-80 MB/s write to NAS, and ~60 MB/s read from NAS. Strange moment was that read speed, even write to another PC RAMdisc trough 1GB lan, was the same 63 MB/s steady, not more. After run autotune speed was maxed out 1GB lan both for write and read till 110-115 MB/s by FTP.
System runs cool, system temp ~28-30C, CPU core temp 32-43C, system load at 1GB LAN full speed is about 20-30% as LAN is bottleneck in this case. Regarding audible noise, the nosiest part are spinning HDDs, everything else is almost silent.
So thanks to FreeNAS team for opportunity to make this build alive!
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Upgrade in July 2013:
Seagate HDDs ST2000DM001 replaced by ST2000VX000 and added vdev with 3 more same HDDs, as result doubled storage space till 7.2 TB.
Power consumption:
- Idle ~55-60w
- Load ~75-85w
Added previously removed case front cooler as middle HDD temperature on full LAN load for long time tend to rise above 55C (60C is allowed operating maximum). No high temp warnings any more.
BR,
cirss
Case Mini ITX - Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced RC-120A-KKN1 – 43 eur
Motherboard Asus P8H77-I socket 1155, 4x sata2 + 2x sata3, max 16GB ram – 88 eur
CPU – Intel Pentium G2020 – low cost power efficient Ivy Bridge BX80637G2020 - 50 eur
CPU Cooler - Cooler Master GeminII M4 - RR-GMM4-16PK-R1, used with removed fan – 30 eur
RAM – 8GB DDR3 Kingston (2x4) KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX – 47 eur
HDD 3x 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 – 255 eur
Power - Standard ATX PS2 OCZ 500W OCZ500MXSP-EU – has this one as spare but the good news is that this Mini-ITX case is designed to use standard ATX PSU, take one of your choice.
Total cost: 513 eur + ATX PSU + USB stick for image
FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-p1-x64 (r12825)
ZFS with RAIDZ, no deduplication, no cache, no ZIL, usable storage space 3.6 TB.
Just after build with default FreeNAS 8.3.0.settings speed was 60-80 MB/s write to NAS, and ~60 MB/s read from NAS. Strange moment was that read speed, even write to another PC RAMdisc trough 1GB lan, was the same 63 MB/s steady, not more. After run autotune speed was maxed out 1GB lan both for write and read till 110-115 MB/s by FTP.
System runs cool, system temp ~28-30C, CPU core temp 32-43C, system load at 1GB LAN full speed is about 20-30% as LAN is bottleneck in this case. Regarding audible noise, the nosiest part are spinning HDDs, everything else is almost silent.
So thanks to FreeNAS team for opportunity to make this build alive!
_______
Upgrade in July 2013:
Seagate HDDs ST2000DM001 replaced by ST2000VX000 and added vdev with 3 more same HDDs, as result doubled storage space till 7.2 TB.
Power consumption:
- Idle ~55-60w
- Load ~75-85w
Added previously removed case front cooler as middle HDD temperature on full LAN load for long time tend to rise above 55C (60C is allowed operating maximum). No high temp warnings any more.
BR,
cirss
