Hi Everybody!
Thank you all for a great forum with loads of great advice!
I would like to hear your opinions on two (relatively) low cost FreeNAS builds for a home NAS. I have a pretty low-end use case: long-term safe storage of personal files and backups for access by 1-3 simultaneous clients with a decent level of throughput over a 1Gbps network (no processing/transcoding on the server). Securing that I do not lose the data (family photos, etc) is the main purpose. In addition, I would like the server to be as silent and energy efficient as possible. An option to upgrade to a total of 4 disks should suffice, while 6 disks would be nice. All things equal, i prefer a smaller box to a bigger one.
Option 1: SuperMicro Denverton (total cost $1300):
Thank you in advance!
Thank you all for a great forum with loads of great advice!
I would like to hear your opinions on two (relatively) low cost FreeNAS builds for a home NAS. I have a pretty low-end use case: long-term safe storage of personal files and backups for access by 1-3 simultaneous clients with a decent level of throughput over a 1Gbps network (no processing/transcoding on the server). Securing that I do not lose the data (family photos, etc) is the main purpose. In addition, I would like the server to be as silent and energy efficient as possible. An option to upgrade to a total of 4 disks should suffice, while 6 disks would be nice. All things equal, i prefer a smaller box to a bigger one.
Option 1: SuperMicro Denverton (total cost $1300):
- SuperMicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F (Atom C3558 4-core 16W 8xSATA 4xDDR4 4xGbE)
- 1x 8 GB DDR4 ECC
- Fractal Design Node 304
- Seasonic FOCUS+ 550W Gold
- 2x WD Red 6TB (storage, ZFS, mirrored)
- Intel Solid-State Drive 545S 128GB (boot disk)
- HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Entry (Opteron X3216, 8Gb DDR4 ECC)
- 2x WD Red 6TB (storage, ZFS, mirrored)
- Intel Solid-State Drive 545S 128GB (boot disk)
Thank you in advance!