Planned build help with mobo and CPU please.

[Stux]

Post away is I believe the policy.... Afterall, the focus of this forum is much more narrow than many

Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[jgreco]

I have a thread on another forum about the case, but not sure what the policy here is regarding linking to threads on other forums....

If it's relevant to FreeNAS, please summarize the target of the thread, linking to it, and then I doubt anyone will mind. We will be sure to tell you if we do.

 

[VladTepes]

I have a build thread here explaining how I (hopefully) will be able to fit my office/gaming system and FreeNAS system into the same case. :)

 

[Mirfster]

I have a build thread here explaining how I (hopefully) will be able to fit my office/gaming system and FreeNAS system into the same case.

Don't go pulling a "Linus" on us... ;)

 

[Stux]

Don't go pulling a "Linus" on us... ;)

What... build a 24 drive, Raid 50?

 

[VladTepes]

Linus?

 

[Stux]

I assume it it was a reference to this:


Which is an alternate approach to actually having two motherboards in one box ;)

And I was referencing this:


which led to this:


Which is a very good example of why RAID-5 is a bad idea. And why striping across 3 separate hardware RAID-5s is a worse idea. And why you should backup your array, because RAID is not a backup strategy.

 

[VladTepes]

Well, finally some good news. The Supermicro mobo and ECC Ram arrived yesterday.