j0achim
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- Nov 22, 2016
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Hi,
Quite recently I bought a Asustor after having ran my own various linux home servers (as NAS and web-server) for the better part of a decade, I was hoping I was going to get a simple, reliable and cheap NAS where I could just setup a few services such as web-server, database, Plex, SABNzbd etc, which it did well untill it died :( :( Im not going to go into details as this is not the place to comment on their service or product, but let me put it simple I was not impressed with what I have got so far when I got in trouble.
So I still have a ton of equipment laying around, such as 3X sata/sas ICY BOX backplane (5x 3.5" in only 3 slots on front of case) and a case that has room from top to bottom 9 slots. PSU Corsair AX760, and a few goodies from my old gaming rig Mobo Asus P9X79, Memory 32gb dd3 Corsair Vengeance (none-ECC!!!) quad channel 1600mhz (effectively 3200mhz), CPU Intel I7 4820K (Water Cooled), GFX some fanless graphics card for the comfort of no extra fan noise (don't remember right now which, its some old Radeon card i pulled from an old HTPC), and a stack of 20 to 30 sata harddrives from 500gb to 3tb each.
I have two PCI-E to SATA (x4 slot) controllers, what brand I don't recall off the bat, they were around 60-75$ a piece when I bought them, they both have been great to me for the past 5-6 years I have had them. I am aware that the SATA controllers are not exactly top of the line and will probably not yield top notch performance.
Now I do not store anything particularly important on the NAS (I do but its stored on PC, NAS and Cloud) mainly media *cough* SABNzbd *cough*
A lot of the drives are cheap drives and of brands that I am not so found of, so I want to avoid raiding these drives, however I would like to pool the drives.
I was thinking of running two 3tb drives in Raid 1 (priority files), remaining drives in a single pool, except 1 drive which will solely be a temp/cache drive for SABNzbd it eats drives for breakfast.
Will it FreeNAS?
Quite recently I bought a Asustor after having ran my own various linux home servers (as NAS and web-server) for the better part of a decade, I was hoping I was going to get a simple, reliable and cheap NAS where I could just setup a few services such as web-server, database, Plex, SABNzbd etc, which it did well untill it died :( :( Im not going to go into details as this is not the place to comment on their service or product, but let me put it simple I was not impressed with what I have got so far when I got in trouble.
So I still have a ton of equipment laying around, such as 3X sata/sas ICY BOX backplane (5x 3.5" in only 3 slots on front of case) and a case that has room from top to bottom 9 slots. PSU Corsair AX760, and a few goodies from my old gaming rig Mobo Asus P9X79, Memory 32gb dd3 Corsair Vengeance (none-ECC!!!) quad channel 1600mhz (effectively 3200mhz), CPU Intel I7 4820K (Water Cooled), GFX some fanless graphics card for the comfort of no extra fan noise (don't remember right now which, its some old Radeon card i pulled from an old HTPC), and a stack of 20 to 30 sata harddrives from 500gb to 3tb each.
I have two PCI-E to SATA (x4 slot) controllers, what brand I don't recall off the bat, they were around 60-75$ a piece when I bought them, they both have been great to me for the past 5-6 years I have had them. I am aware that the SATA controllers are not exactly top of the line and will probably not yield top notch performance.
Now I do not store anything particularly important on the NAS (I do but its stored on PC, NAS and Cloud) mainly media *cough* SABNzbd *cough*
A lot of the drives are cheap drives and of brands that I am not so found of, so I want to avoid raiding these drives, however I would like to pool the drives.
I was thinking of running two 3tb drives in Raid 1 (priority files), remaining drives in a single pool, except 1 drive which will solely be a temp/cache drive for SABNzbd it eats drives for breakfast.
Will it FreeNAS?