X10SRW-F for first time FreeNAS

[Occam's Chainsaw]

Looking to do the following build to use for FreeNAS / Plex / ZoneMinder for a home system.

I've got:

• Intel e5-2609 v3
• SuperMicro X10SRW-F
• 2U SuperMicro CSE-825, Proprietary WIO (This is a free "hand-me-down" hence the WIO motherboard)
• 16GB DDR4 ECC

With this I'm wanting to run 4x 4TB WD reds either mirrored or in ZRAID2. My questions are:

1. I'm pretty sure the motherboard will work, but not 100%. Is the Intel C612 chipset natively supported by FreeNAS?
2. Can I get away with running all of this with 16GB of RAM? I plan on upgrading RAM and then maybe doing some VM's once RAM prices come down. If not, could I drop down to 3x 4TB in ZRAID1 to make it work?
3. Are there any potential pitfalls I should be aware of? I'm fairly competent in the Windows side of the world but a complete noob when it comes to Linux, so the less tweaking of drivers and kernels, the better.

Thanks for any feedback

 

[kdragon75]

Can I get away with running all of this with 16GB of RAM?

That all depends on what and how this box will be serving how many clients.

 

[Occam's Chainsaw]

That all depends on what and how this box will be serving how many clients.

As many as 6 different Plex clients, but never more than 2 clients at a time (and 99.9% of the time just one client) and minimal transcoding.

 

[Dice]

16GB will be fine.
Don't opt for raidz1.