Demonocolips
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- Apr 19, 2019
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i have an old computer that i wanted to turn into a freenas for my home. problem is it has an amd fx processor which is very power hungry and heat intesive.
so turning it into a station would require to replace the motherboard and processor and at least reading around i need at least 16gb of memory for a decent amount of storage so replacing the motherboard with a cheaper intel quad core embedded motherboard with some decent ram would be good. however many embedded motherboards have a rather limited amount of sata ports. now one of the notes ive seen is that freenas does not like raid cards. now does this mean it does not like raid based on cards or it doesnt like pcie sata adapters because some of the cards ive seen are described as both. speed isnt that important to me but even then many boards ive seen dont have an overabundance of sata ports, so 3gbs or 6gbs doesnt matter too much. so after getting more of idea of how this works ill know how to increase hard drive number in the future. im not married to any one idea at this point but i know i want a nas eventually and every time i think about it i always found that there is always a fairly hard cap on data capacity. i think at 8gb it'll handle 8tb supposedly but at 16gb the max increases more than linearly. if this doesnt pan out im thinking about an inexpensive amd board with a 35w processor.
motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157731
pcie sata adapter idea: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...e sata&cm_re=pcie_sata-_-15-124-159-_-Product
so turning it into a station would require to replace the motherboard and processor and at least reading around i need at least 16gb of memory for a decent amount of storage so replacing the motherboard with a cheaper intel quad core embedded motherboard with some decent ram would be good. however many embedded motherboards have a rather limited amount of sata ports. now one of the notes ive seen is that freenas does not like raid cards. now does this mean it does not like raid based on cards or it doesnt like pcie sata adapters because some of the cards ive seen are described as both. speed isnt that important to me but even then many boards ive seen dont have an overabundance of sata ports, so 3gbs or 6gbs doesnt matter too much. so after getting more of idea of how this works ill know how to increase hard drive number in the future. im not married to any one idea at this point but i know i want a nas eventually and every time i think about it i always found that there is always a fairly hard cap on data capacity. i think at 8gb it'll handle 8tb supposedly but at 16gb the max increases more than linearly. if this doesnt pan out im thinking about an inexpensive amd board with a 35w processor.
motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157731
pcie sata adapter idea: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...e sata&cm_re=pcie_sata-_-15-124-159-_-Product