Hi all,
I am about to put together my first proper NAS after using old old hardware laying around and hiding the result in my basement :)
Have done a bit of reading in the forums by now and found lots of helpful stuff.. still for days I am pondering about what to order...
I am kind of on a budget and basically want the system to be as power efficient as can be.
The base will be the ASUS E35M1-I (no need for HDMI, usb3 and co) and 8g RAM.
Now here is my question: why does everybody only ever use 3.5" HDDs? are the 2.5" considerably worse in terms of speed / reliability / power ?
When I look at the lists at Tom's hardware guide, 2.5" idle power consumption (obviously) is much less but also the "performance per watt" ratings are much better
2.5": http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-mobile-hdd-charts/-23-Performance-per-Watt,3006.html
3.5": http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...rformance-per-Watt-Streaming-Writes,2921.html
maybe I am horribly overlooking something? :)
the whole thing came up to me because I looked at a lot of cases and it seems to me you can find many more better priced cases that are actually made for 2.5" (not that I would buy the drives according to a case, but thats how I came to think about it)
One more thing. If I want to more or less max out my gbit lan, doe's it matter whether sataII or sataIII drives/ports are used?
I am happy if I can get a decent read/write rate over CIFS and FTP like most of the guys in this
thread http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?27-AMD-E-350-Thread-(now-in-new-forum-)
can I achieve that with 2.5" drives or do they have a flaw I don't see?
because if no, it seems I can lower the power consumption of the good thing quite a bit compared to using the standard hdd's
thanks for every reply
rindl
I am about to put together my first proper NAS after using old old hardware laying around and hiding the result in my basement :)
Have done a bit of reading in the forums by now and found lots of helpful stuff.. still for days I am pondering about what to order...
I am kind of on a budget and basically want the system to be as power efficient as can be.
The base will be the ASUS E35M1-I (no need for HDMI, usb3 and co) and 8g RAM.
Now here is my question: why does everybody only ever use 3.5" HDDs? are the 2.5" considerably worse in terms of speed / reliability / power ?
When I look at the lists at Tom's hardware guide, 2.5" idle power consumption (obviously) is much less but also the "performance per watt" ratings are much better
2.5": http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2012-mobile-hdd-charts/-23-Performance-per-Watt,3006.html
3.5": http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...rformance-per-Watt-Streaming-Writes,2921.html
maybe I am horribly overlooking something? :)
the whole thing came up to me because I looked at a lot of cases and it seems to me you can find many more better priced cases that are actually made for 2.5" (not that I would buy the drives according to a case, but thats how I came to think about it)
One more thing. If I want to more or less max out my gbit lan, doe's it matter whether sataII or sataIII drives/ports are used?
I am happy if I can get a decent read/write rate over CIFS and FTP like most of the guys in this
thread http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?27-AMD-E-350-Thread-(now-in-new-forum-)
can I achieve that with 2.5" drives or do they have a flaw I don't see?
because if no, it seems I can lower the power consumption of the good thing quite a bit compared to using the standard hdd's
thanks for every reply
rindl