Will it FreeNAS? Gateway GT110F1

[gadelhas]

Hi everyone;

I have a Gateway GT110F1 machine with 1 XEON E3110, 4GB DDR2 ECC and Gigabit Ethernet.
I also have 1 SSD A400 120GB for the System, and 2 WD RED 3TB/64MB that i want to put in RAIDZ1.

The purpose of this machine is to be a backup of my main computer, so i will have the files in my main computer and in the NAS. The backup will be made once a month, and it will take about 30minutes. The NAS will be turn on only at this time, is not to be connected all the time.

Is this machine capable of FreeNas?

Thank you.

 

[Samuel Tai]

Gateway GT110F1 machine with 1 XEON E3110, 4GB DDR2 ECC and Gigabit Ethernet.

Minimum RAM requirement for FreeNAS is 8 GB. For your use case of archiving data, you could operate on 4 GB, but the system will be slow, and will need to swap to disk frequently. Also, the CPU doesn't have EPT capability, so you won't be able to run VMs either.

I also have 1 SSD A400 120GB for the System, and 2 WD RED 3TB/64MB that i want to put in RAIDZ1.

RAIDZ1 requires 3 disks. I assume you meant instead RAID1 (mirroring), which will work fine with 2 disks. Please verify your drives aren't WD30EFAXs, which use shingled magnetic recording (SMR). These won't work well with FreeNAS.

The backup will be made once a month, and it will take about 30minutes. The NAS will be turn on only at this time, is not to be connected all the time.

It's better for drive longevity to have the drives spinning all the time. Letting the bearing lubrication sit for 30 days and congeal, and then rapidly warm up isn't good for the bearings nor the drives. SSDs would be better in this case. Alternatively, you may just want to use the drives as a temporary holding area, and use cloud sync as your ultimate backup destination.

 

[gadelhas]

Minimum RAM requirement for FreeNAS is 8 GB. For your use case of archiving data, you could operate on 4 GB, but the system will be slow, and will need to swap to disk frequently. Also, the CPU doesn't have EPT capability, so you won't be able to run VMs either.



RAIDZ1 requires 3 disks. I assume you meant instead RAID1 (mirroring), which will work fine with 2 disks. Please verify your drives aren't WD30EFAXs, which use shingled magnetic recording (SMR). These won't work well with FreeNAS.



It's better for drive longevity to have the drives spinning all the time. Letting the bearing lubrication sit for 30 days and congeal, and then rapidly warm up isn't good for the bearings nor the drives. SSDs would be better in this case. Alternatively, you may just want to use the drives as a temporary holding area, and use cloud sync as your ultimate backup destination.

 

[gadelhas]

Minimum RAM requirement for FreeNAS is 8 GB. For your use case of archiving data, you could operate on 4 GB, but the system will be slow, and will need to swap to disk frequently. Also, the CPU doesn't have EPT capability, so you won't be able to run VMs either.



RAIDZ1 requires 3 disks. I assume you meant instead RAID1 (mirroring), which will work fine with 2 disks. Please verify your drives aren't WD30EFAXs, which use shingled magnetic recording (SMR). These won't work well with FreeNAS.



It's better for drive longevity to have the drives spinning all the time. Letting the bearing lubrication sit for 30 days and congeal, and then rapidly warm up isn't good for the bearings nor the drives. SSDs would be better in this case. Alternatively, you may just want to use the drives as a temporary holding area, and use cloud sync as your ultimate backup destination.

Thank you for your answer.

Ok, I understand what you are saying. I don't need VMs, only transfer files. I will try installing FreeNas and see how it behaves.

My WD RED are the WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 3TB 64MB Chache 5400RPM CMR.

Didn't kown that about the hard drive spinning. nice tip.