Pitts
Cadet
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2013
- Messages
- 5
Hi everybody,
It's been a couple weeks since I started reading the forums for the "best build" suiting my needs, and I have to say that people work did made me change ideas several times. I was about to buy that beautiful UNAS NSC-400 with a mini-Itx MB but reading other posts lead me to rethink everything, for cooling and expandability purposes.
PS.: All prices shown are the best I could find from canadian retailers
Overview :
This is my first Freenas project, I think I've done my homework by reading a lot of noob threads, builds, the stickies and by experimenting on a VM. Now I think I'm ready ! I'm going for 8x 3tB WD red in raidz2 since I understand that 2 arrays of 4 drives in raidz1 (like I initially thought) is far from a good idea.
*** Case ***
Ok there's where I'm wondering. My box should be in the living room, I don't wan't it to be huge, noisy and ugly. I've come across two of the smallest that could fit 8 drives (using 5.25 bays) and I'm not sure about temperature/air flow inside those cases :
FractalDEFINE Mini (105$ shipped)
Lian LiPC-V354B (170$ shipped)
The fractal seems a lot nicer to work with, but I can live with whichever.
So any thoughts, experience, ideas for a case with quiet fans/cooler combination ?
*** PSU ***
No experience here in efficiency and power rating calculation. I've seen the "Seasonic SS-400FL2 400W Platinum Fanless PSU" on a similar build though. I understand that a modular PSU would be a benefit in those small cases, but not sure if wattage rating is to high and about fan or fanless ...
CPU
Xeon E3-1230 v2. Cheaper than the newer xeon, low idle consumption, future proof.
Motherboard
SUPERMICRO X9SCL-O (160$) + IBM m1015 (125$)
Cheapest from the x9 series, No IPMI or WOL supported but I don't see why I would need them
Memory
2x8GB Kingston ECC unbuffered
Starting with 16GB, 2 slots available for another 16GB
Thanks for all contributors who helped me learned a lot and thanks in advance for all who will help me on my build, you are awesome !
It's been a couple weeks since I started reading the forums for the "best build" suiting my needs, and I have to say that people work did made me change ideas several times. I was about to buy that beautiful UNAS NSC-400 with a mini-Itx MB but reading other posts lead me to rethink everything, for cooling and expandability purposes.
PS.: All prices shown are the best I could find from canadian retailers
Overview :
This is my first Freenas project, I think I've done my homework by reading a lot of noob threads, builds, the stickies and by experimenting on a VM. Now I think I'm ready ! I'm going for 8x 3tB WD red in raidz2 since I understand that 2 arrays of 4 drives in raidz1 (like I initially thought) is far from a good idea.
*** Case ***
Ok there's where I'm wondering. My box should be in the living room, I don't wan't it to be huge, noisy and ugly. I've come across two of the smallest that could fit 8 drives (using 5.25 bays) and I'm not sure about temperature/air flow inside those cases :
FractalDEFINE Mini (105$ shipped)
Lian LiPC-V354B (170$ shipped)
The fractal seems a lot nicer to work with, but I can live with whichever.
So any thoughts, experience, ideas for a case with quiet fans/cooler combination ?
*** PSU ***
No experience here in efficiency and power rating calculation. I've seen the "Seasonic SS-400FL2 400W Platinum Fanless PSU" on a similar build though. I understand that a modular PSU would be a benefit in those small cases, but not sure if wattage rating is to high and about fan or fanless ...
CPU
Xeon E3-1230 v2. Cheaper than the newer xeon, low idle consumption, future proof.
Motherboard
SUPERMICRO X9SCL-O (160$) + IBM m1015 (125$)
Cheapest from the x9 series, No IPMI or WOL supported but I don't see why I would need them
Memory
2x8GB Kingston ECC unbuffered
Starting with 16GB, 2 slots available for another 16GB
Thanks for all contributors who helped me learned a lot and thanks in advance for all who will help me on my build, you are awesome !