I've read through the hardware requirements of freenas and think I can put together a freenas system for cheap to play around with but I wanted to run the specs by the experts. These are mostly parts scrounged off old PCs and my parts bin with a couple of parts planned to purchase off ebay.
Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3P - Intel P45 chipset
Intel Core 2 Quad Q3200 CPU
8gb (4 x 2gb) G.Skill 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM
32GB Innodisk SATADOM (for boot drive, $20 on ebay)
120GB Intel 330 SSD (for cache)
8 x 120GB Seagate Barracuda HDDs for storage
LSI 9210-8i PCIe SATA controller ($20 on ebay)
2 x SFF8087 to 4 SATA cable ($12 for two cables on ebay)
NZXT Tempest mid-tower case
550W power supply
I was going to run the boot drive and SSD off the motherboard (8xSATA ports) with the 9210 controlling the HDDs. Since the board does not have onboard graphics, I have an old GPU in there for now but will be taking that out once I get the system running. Again, really just testing and playing with freenas at this point but would eventually like to swap in some real drives for use as a NAS and media server.
Questions:
Will it work? Or better question, SHOULD it work? lol.
With the LSI SATA controller, do I need to check or do anything to it to make it compatible with the system? This page suggests I should at least check the firmware.
TIA!
Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3P - Intel P45 chipset
Intel Core 2 Quad Q3200 CPU
8gb (4 x 2gb) G.Skill 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM
32GB Innodisk SATADOM (for boot drive, $20 on ebay)
120GB Intel 330 SSD (for cache)
8 x 120GB Seagate Barracuda HDDs for storage
LSI 9210-8i PCIe SATA controller ($20 on ebay)
2 x SFF8087 to 4 SATA cable ($12 for two cables on ebay)
NZXT Tempest mid-tower case
550W power supply
I was going to run the boot drive and SSD off the motherboard (8xSATA ports) with the 9210 controlling the HDDs. Since the board does not have onboard graphics, I have an old GPU in there for now but will be taking that out once I get the system running. Again, really just testing and playing with freenas at this point but would eventually like to swap in some real drives for use as a NAS and media server.
Questions:
Will it work? Or better question, SHOULD it work? lol.
With the LSI SATA controller, do I need to check or do anything to it to make it compatible with the system? This page suggests I should at least check the firmware.
TIA!