Stranger202
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Hey all, So I decided to setup a home NAS for mostly my multimedia and also for my backups of multiple computers. I'm very good with hardware but don't have any FreeNAS experience. I chose the following hardware that I think should be OK but wanted a second opinion or confirmation from people experienced with FreeNAS.
Intel Celeron G1820 Haswell - £32
ASUS H87I-Plus mini-ITX board - £80 (cheapest mini-ITX haswell board that had 6 SATA ports)
2GB old DDR3 memory - £0, i have spare memory around
4 x Seagate ST4000VN000 (with option to add another two in the future) - £136 each
Fractal Design Node 304 Case - £60
Be Quiet! 300w Pure Power L8 PSU - £33
So overall it will cost around £750. I won't be doing RAID and will go JBoD, and will be running this over Gigabit Ethernet (so practically RAID has zero speed benefits and I'm not that concerned with data loss as I also have another backup plan as well and most multimedia are replaceable easily). I don't think using ZFE would make sense for me either so I'm guessing UFS it is.
Any thoughts on this build or suggestions for replacements?
Thanks in advance
Intel Celeron G1820 Haswell - £32
ASUS H87I-Plus mini-ITX board - £80 (cheapest mini-ITX haswell board that had 6 SATA ports)
2GB old DDR3 memory - £0, i have spare memory around
4 x Seagate ST4000VN000 (with option to add another two in the future) - £136 each
Fractal Design Node 304 Case - £60
Be Quiet! 300w Pure Power L8 PSU - £33
So overall it will cost around £750. I won't be doing RAID and will go JBoD, and will be running this over Gigabit Ethernet (so practically RAID has zero speed benefits and I'm not that concerned with data loss as I also have another backup plan as well and most multimedia are replaceable easily). I don't think using ZFE would make sense for me either so I'm guessing UFS it is.
Any thoughts on this build or suggestions for replacements?
Thanks in advance