hello! im wondering if you kind peoplez could help me out here,
I'm considering of building a nas system in raidz1 or 2 since my last prebuild nas just diedededed and almost gave me a heartattack.
luckly enough the drives still work/ healthy and lost no datas
my old nas had 2 separated pools
one to store semi important files like drivers,receipts, school papers and other digitalized papers.
and the other for media with the occaional transcoding.
4 disks total all 2tb's
While selecting an ITX motherboard i noticed there isnt much choice.
Since i want to be able to upgrade in the near future
i wanted the MB to atleast have 6 Sata ports
and support 16gb preff 32gb of ram,
a front usb 3.0 connection would be awesome since you never know what the furture may hold.
all dat for a small enough price so my studentwallet doesnt try to knife me because its dying from starvation xD
so i ended with 2 different builds
amd with a ASRock FM2A78M-ITX+
and intel with multiple simulair ITX MB's
eventually a little voice in my head began screaming: OI what about dat drivers!?
and so my dilemma started...
after trying to research on what kind of drivers were supported, my head started to spin
i figured since freenas is based on freebdsd i should look at what is supported there.
and came across this:
https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
and now im clueless
i dont know what to look for on the MB to see if its supported at all
chipsets? or just the sata/lan controller? or can i somehow just install drivers into freenas?
or just kill my wallet plug and pray?
all i've found about unsupported hardware was people saying they found ''workarrounds'' not saying what those workarrounds actually were... >.<
so please can a hero help me out?
any ITX motherboards suggestions?
LGA 1150 /AM3+ /fm2/fm2+
16gb max ram prefered more
and/or maybe some clearance on the drivers?
coz not knowing will just slowly turn me mental :p
I'm considering of building a nas system in raidz1 or 2 since my last prebuild nas just diedededed and almost gave me a heartattack.
luckly enough the drives still work/ healthy and lost no datas
my old nas had 2 separated pools
one to store semi important files like drivers,receipts, school papers and other digitalized papers.
and the other for media with the occaional transcoding.
4 disks total all 2tb's
While selecting an ITX motherboard i noticed there isnt much choice.
Since i want to be able to upgrade in the near future
i wanted the MB to atleast have 6 Sata ports
and support 16gb preff 32gb of ram,
a front usb 3.0 connection would be awesome since you never know what the furture may hold.
all dat for a small enough price so my studentwallet doesnt try to knife me because its dying from starvation xD
so i ended with 2 different builds
amd with a ASRock FM2A78M-ITX+
and intel with multiple simulair ITX MB's
eventually a little voice in my head began screaming: OI what about dat drivers!?
and so my dilemma started...
after trying to research on what kind of drivers were supported, my head started to spin
i figured since freenas is based on freebdsd i should look at what is supported there.
and came across this:
https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html
and now im clueless
i dont know what to look for on the MB to see if its supported at all
chipsets? or just the sata/lan controller? or can i somehow just install drivers into freenas?
or just kill my wallet plug and pray?
all i've found about unsupported hardware was people saying they found ''workarrounds'' not saying what those workarrounds actually were... >.<
so please can a hero help me out?
any ITX motherboards suggestions?
LGA 1150 /AM3+ /fm2/fm2+
16gb max ram prefered more
and/or maybe some clearance on the drivers?
coz not knowing will just slowly turn me mental :p
