Saw this deal today... seems like it has some of what I was going to buy and is a pretty good deal at $225.
View: http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkServer-70A4000HUX-i3-4130-Computer/dp/B00F6EK9J2
More details here (also slightly cheaper, but needs MIR): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...19228X764693Xec89ae1207d53398b60a60a912bad4c5
Main concern is the PSU, which is supposedly proprietary (but I think I read somewhere there's an adapter)
It also only has 3 bays (but some people are saying they were able to swap out the DVD drive for two additional drives. There are 5 SATA slots on the motherboard.
It doesn't list the make/model of the network cards. It says "RAID Software 0/1," but FreeNAS will handle all that, rigth?
So I would throw in 5 2TB Drives, for RaidZ2
Purchase two 8GB RAM (for a total of 20GB.. I can add more if needed)
I'm not sure, but I think I would also need a video card? It says it has outputs, but not clear on that end... I have a cheap older card I can swap in anyhow.
I mostly want it for torrenting and storage with duplication. Will probably try Plex, but only 1 stream at a time. Does that sound like a good plan?
View: http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkServer-70A4000HUX-i3-4130-Computer/dp/B00F6EK9J2
More details here (also slightly cheaper, but needs MIR): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...19228X764693Xec89ae1207d53398b60a60a912bad4c5
Main concern is the PSU, which is supposedly proprietary (but I think I read somewhere there's an adapter)
It also only has 3 bays (but some people are saying they were able to swap out the DVD drive for two additional drives. There are 5 SATA slots on the motherboard.
It doesn't list the make/model of the network cards. It says "RAID Software 0/1," but FreeNAS will handle all that, rigth?
So I would throw in 5 2TB Drives, for RaidZ2
Purchase two 8GB RAM (for a total of 20GB.. I can add more if needed)
I'm not sure, but I think I would also need a video card? It says it has outputs, but not clear on that end... I have a cheap older card I can swap in anyhow.
I mostly want it for torrenting and storage with duplication. Will probably try Plex, but only 1 stream at a time. Does that sound like a good plan?
