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Hello
First time poster here. Forgive me If I've missed any forums best practices in this post :)
So I'm looking to build a small home office / media storage / backup system for a few Mac machines, and it was suggested that FreeNAS could solve all my needs, and indeed looks like a perfect fit.
For my build my goal is not insane performance, but relatively quiet, 1U form factor that has a good power supply and will last a long time, that I can throw into my rack with some of my video equipment and not be bothered by too much.
I need to store a ton of video and photos, project files, and centralize Time Machine backups in a single place for about 4 Macs. I plan on using either Crashplan or or Backblaze from the FreeNAS server to give me off site backups.
So I've looked at a small 4 drive build using a super micro 5018A-MHN4 chassis. From all I can tell its quite quiet considering its a server form factor (~ 27 - 33 db) and I can put 4 SATA drives in there, it has 4X Gig-E so I can directly attach my workstation to one, another to the router for internet, and 2 floating for direct Gig-E to the laptops when I need them.
During my research I saw : http://www.teckelworks.com/2014/10/building-a-freenas-server-with-a-supermicro-5018a-mhn4/ which gave me some good confidence this would be a good build.
So I'd love some feedback, I'm thinking :
5018A-MHN4 :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101872
$639.99
Either WD Red WD50EFRX 5TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236738
$199.99 ea
4x $799.96
Or WD Red WD60EFRX 6TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236737
$259.99 ea
4x $1,039.96
I'm not sure if it makes sense to get the 6TB drives, as the price difference is quite high. I was thinking of configuring with 10 to 12 TB of space.
And finally memory
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Supermicro/superserver-5018a-mhn4
$185.99 16Gb
For a simple build I don't think I am missing anything else? I have a keyboard and monitor for setup - and can pick up a simple USB drive as per recommendations to host the FreeNAS OS.
Have people in the community gone similar routes? Any surprises or things I should be aware of considering my use case? Any better options? Its been a long time since I've build a system, so any advice is awesome.
Thank you for any feedback!
First time poster here. Forgive me If I've missed any forums best practices in this post :)
So I'm looking to build a small home office / media storage / backup system for a few Mac machines, and it was suggested that FreeNAS could solve all my needs, and indeed looks like a perfect fit.
For my build my goal is not insane performance, but relatively quiet, 1U form factor that has a good power supply and will last a long time, that I can throw into my rack with some of my video equipment and not be bothered by too much.
I need to store a ton of video and photos, project files, and centralize Time Machine backups in a single place for about 4 Macs. I plan on using either Crashplan or or Backblaze from the FreeNAS server to give me off site backups.
So I've looked at a small 4 drive build using a super micro 5018A-MHN4 chassis. From all I can tell its quite quiet considering its a server form factor (~ 27 - 33 db) and I can put 4 SATA drives in there, it has 4X Gig-E so I can directly attach my workstation to one, another to the router for internet, and 2 floating for direct Gig-E to the laptops when I need them.
During my research I saw : http://www.teckelworks.com/2014/10/building-a-freenas-server-with-a-supermicro-5018a-mhn4/ which gave me some good confidence this would be a good build.
So I'd love some feedback, I'm thinking :
5018A-MHN4 :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101872
$639.99
Either WD Red WD50EFRX 5TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236738
$199.99 ea
4x $799.96
Or WD Red WD60EFRX 6TB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236737
$259.99 ea
4x $1,039.96
I'm not sure if it makes sense to get the 6TB drives, as the price difference is quite high. I was thinking of configuring with 10 to 12 TB of space.
And finally memory
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Supermicro/superserver-5018a-mhn4
$185.99 16Gb
For a simple build I don't think I am missing anything else? I have a keyboard and monitor for setup - and can pick up a simple USB drive as per recommendations to host the FreeNAS OS.
Have people in the community gone similar routes? Any surprises or things I should be aware of considering my use case? Any better options? Its been a long time since I've build a system, so any advice is awesome.
Thank you for any feedback!
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