samuelellis
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Hello everyone, I have been doing some reading and think that I have the right idea hardware wise for my build but could someone take a quick look over it. Sorry to ask as im sure you see this a million and one times
Motherboard/Processor - ASRock C2750D4I Mini ITX - Looking at this board it seems almost ideal, lots of SATA ports, ECC RAM compatable and the built in processor seems like it would be able to run freenas/couple of plex streams
Hard drive - From what I can gather as you cant extend vdev's its best to set it up first with multiple smaller drive using all your SATA ports and then when you need more space swap the drive out one at a time for bigger capacity drives and then extend the Vdev, is that right?
In that case i am thinking 8 4tb Western digital red drives - this would give me unformatted 32TB of space - In order to keep as much as possible i am thinking of using Raid Z1 - its not as safe as Raid Z2 but as i will have an offsite backup
RAM - from what i can gather it is good practice to go with 1GB ram per 1TB so 32Gb of Corsair RAM
Power supply - EVGA 1000 GQ - probably massivly overkill but with this many spindles to run its better to go too much than too little
Does this sound like a good plan?
Below is the costings for it - can anyone see a way to do it a bit cheaper - worth looking on ebay for an old server board and Xeon as i do have a PCI 8Port SATA card?
Motherboard - £389 - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asr...iii-6gb-s-vga-2x-gbe-lan-1x-ipmi-lan-2x-usb-2
RAM - £384 - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/32g...l-10600-4rx4-4g-x-72-bit-8-bit-pre-fetch-135v
Power supply - £134 - https://www.cclonline.com/product/1...00-GQ-1000W-ATX-Modular-Power-Supply/PSU0969/
hard drive - £1122 - https://www.cclonline.com/product/1...nch-NAS-Desktop-Hard-Drive-Internal-/HDD2167/
Motherboard/Processor - ASRock C2750D4I Mini ITX - Looking at this board it seems almost ideal, lots of SATA ports, ECC RAM compatable and the built in processor seems like it would be able to run freenas/couple of plex streams
Hard drive - From what I can gather as you cant extend vdev's its best to set it up first with multiple smaller drive using all your SATA ports and then when you need more space swap the drive out one at a time for bigger capacity drives and then extend the Vdev, is that right?
In that case i am thinking 8 4tb Western digital red drives - this would give me unformatted 32TB of space - In order to keep as much as possible i am thinking of using Raid Z1 - its not as safe as Raid Z2 but as i will have an offsite backup
RAM - from what i can gather it is good practice to go with 1GB ram per 1TB so 32Gb of Corsair RAM
Power supply - EVGA 1000 GQ - probably massivly overkill but with this many spindles to run its better to go too much than too little
Does this sound like a good plan?
Below is the costings for it - can anyone see a way to do it a bit cheaper - worth looking on ebay for an old server board and Xeon as i do have a PCI 8Port SATA card?
Motherboard - £389 - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asr...iii-6gb-s-vga-2x-gbe-lan-1x-ipmi-lan-2x-usb-2
RAM - £384 - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/32g...l-10600-4rx4-4g-x-72-bit-8-bit-pre-fetch-135v
Power supply - £134 - https://www.cclonline.com/product/1...00-GQ-1000W-ATX-Modular-Power-Supply/PSU0969/
hard drive - £1122 - https://www.cclonline.com/product/1...nch-NAS-Desktop-Hard-Drive-Internal-/HDD2167/