First of all I would like to thank cyberjock for putting together that excellent presentation. Shame I didn't come across it sooner.
I set out to build a 6+ NAS system on a budget for streaming media around my home. I had no prior knowledge, did some research and jumped in with both feet first (as I usually do) and bought what I thought would be ideal for the job. After reading your guide I don't think I did too bad but there are some mistakes. I will list what I have got and the mistakes I believe I have made.
CPU = AMD FX 4100
Yes it is AMD but unfortunately, as I said, I purchased before I came across this forum. However, I believe in terms of performance it should be more than adequate and can handle the all important ECC RAM and is 64bit.
RAM = 16GB (2x8GB) Hynix PC3-12800E 1600MHz DDR3 ECC RAM
Probably one of the only things I got right.
Motherboard = M5A78L-M/USB3
I chose this board and the CPU for there ECC support and low all round cost. It is however where I have probably made my biggest mistake for two reasons. Firstly the NIC is Realtek. The second is the SATA controller. So my questions here are: Will I get by with the Realtek LAN driver? If not what are my options? And also: Is the SATA controller adequate? If not then again what are my options?
I've got a high quailty PSU and a case with 8 drive bays and adequate cooling.
Remember this only only for a home media server for a handful of devices. I would like to avoid data loss but wouldn't loose sleep over it. The aim was to migrate my media to one place and not in my Main PC.
I set out to build a 6+ NAS system on a budget for streaming media around my home. I had no prior knowledge, did some research and jumped in with both feet first (as I usually do) and bought what I thought would be ideal for the job. After reading your guide I don't think I did too bad but there are some mistakes. I will list what I have got and the mistakes I believe I have made.
CPU = AMD FX 4100
Yes it is AMD but unfortunately, as I said, I purchased before I came across this forum. However, I believe in terms of performance it should be more than adequate and can handle the all important ECC RAM and is 64bit.
RAM = 16GB (2x8GB) Hynix PC3-12800E 1600MHz DDR3 ECC RAM
Probably one of the only things I got right.
Motherboard = M5A78L-M/USB3
I chose this board and the CPU for there ECC support and low all round cost. It is however where I have probably made my biggest mistake for two reasons. Firstly the NIC is Realtek. The second is the SATA controller. So my questions here are: Will I get by with the Realtek LAN driver? If not what are my options? And also: Is the SATA controller adequate? If not then again what are my options?
I've got a high quailty PSU and a case with 8 drive bays and adequate cooling.
Remember this only only for a home media server for a handful of devices. I would like to avoid data loss but wouldn't loose sleep over it. The aim was to migrate my media to one place and not in my Main PC.