Hey guys, first post! I was wondering if some of you gurus could give the setup I have scribbled out on a piece of paper a look and let me know if it is possible. I was at Microcenter on Saturday and already pulled the trigger on some hardware, but I think you will approve of it. My final build will look something like this (unless you guys see a problem with it.)
The Mobo and CPU are non negotiable as I got the pair for $310 at Microcenter (Motherboard is a refurb), even though they might not be able to handle all of what i want to do (Maybe they can? You tell me). Everything else is up in the air if you see red flags, but I really wanna keep the case as is.
Now for the FreeNAS portion. I remade my sketch on some bubble website and i think you can get the gist of it.
Media, Backups, and Data are all datasets I think as I am still not 100% with all the terminology. And then file access beneath them is done in permissions? This is where I get a little intimidated after flipping through the whole manual and a bunch of guides. I think getting a test rig going will be the only way to truly understand it from there.
Well either way, please let me know what you think about my hardware choices, whats possible and not, and weather or not in your opinion just jumping in and messing around before I put the box into full use will help me understand some of the fuzzy areas further.
Thanks in advanced,
Sean
ALMOST FORGOT
As you can see under the Hardest (not possible) to replace section I plan on doing a semi "Off site" incremental backup. If would just be two spare 500GB hard drives in a 1 week rotation holding ZFS snapshots in a fireproof safe in my garage in a hard drive box of some sort. Is this even possible? To always have one of them with a backup copy no more than 1 week old on it them unplug it and move it to a safe location? Is it even logical? again, let me know!
- (CPU) Xeon 1230 V2 (HAVE)
- (Mobo) X9sCM-F-O (HAVE)
- (RAM) TBD 16 GB (Thinking Kingston, obviously ECC, 8 to get started with tests then another 8 ASAP)
- (CASE) Define Mini
- (PSU) Seasonic SS-400FL2
- (Drives 1) I might be getting 5 x 1TB Samsung IDK anything about drives that I can test on/use permanently?
- (Drives 2) What I eventually WANT is 6 x 2TB WD Reds
The Mobo and CPU are non negotiable as I got the pair for $310 at Microcenter (Motherboard is a refurb), even though they might not be able to handle all of what i want to do (Maybe they can? You tell me). Everything else is up in the air if you see red flags, but I really wanna keep the case as is.
Now for the FreeNAS portion. I remade my sketch on some bubble website and i think you can get the gist of it.

Media, Backups, and Data are all datasets I think as I am still not 100% with all the terminology. And then file access beneath them is done in permissions? This is where I get a little intimidated after flipping through the whole manual and a bunch of guides. I think getting a test rig going will be the only way to truly understand it from there.
Well either way, please let me know what you think about my hardware choices, whats possible and not, and weather or not in your opinion just jumping in and messing around before I put the box into full use will help me understand some of the fuzzy areas further.
Thanks in advanced,
Sean
ALMOST FORGOT
As you can see under the Hardest (not possible) to replace section I plan on doing a semi "Off site" incremental backup. If would just be two spare 500GB hard drives in a 1 week rotation holding ZFS snapshots in a fireproof safe in my garage in a hard drive box of some sort. Is this even possible? To always have one of them with a backup copy no more than 1 week old on it them unplug it and move it to a safe location? Is it even logical? again, let me know!