Planed FreeNas Build

Night_Rider0 · April 2, 2015

This storage box will serve as both storage for my ESXI host to eliminate the painfully slow Intel raid card that has served it the first year or two of its life you can see the hardware in its current configuration by clicking here this new server will serve to store live virtual machines running on the esxi host which will be installed to local drive and use iscsi to connect the 2 servers together to give the host the ability to run the virtual machine from the remote disk so this system needs to be fairly quick in order to keep up transfer speeds between the two of them as quick as the gigabit link between them can go. it will also serve as network storage

So i will essentially use new and used parts in tandem to make 1 system into 2 hopefully faster systems so here goes nothing

ESXI HOST

Case : iStarUSA 3U Stylish Zinc-Coated Steel Rackmount Server Chassis (purchase)

CPU : Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge 3.2GHz LGA 1155 80W (owened)

HS : Stock intel (yes i know this is the worst sin ever but ohh well)(owened)

RAM : Kingston Technology ValueRAM 32GB Kit of 4 (4 x 8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 ECC(owened)

ssd : Crucial MX100 CT128MX100SSD1 2.5" 128GB (purchase)

psu : Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D Green 380W (purchase)

FreeNas Host

Case : Corsair Carbide Series 400R (owened)

MB : ASUS P9D-V ATX Server Motherboard (purchase)

CPU : Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell 3.3GHz LGA 1150 (purchase)

HS : Stock Intel or Hyper 212 EVO (owened)

Sata card : SYBA SI-PEX40071 8 Internal SATA III Ports (purchase)

Ram : Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC (purchase)

OS Drive : what ever flash drive i happen to find

PSU : CORSAIR HX Series HX750 750W 80 PLUS GOLD (owened)

HDD 0 – 4 : 5 of Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s (owened)

HDD Hot Swap Bays : ICY DOCK FlexCage MB973SP-1B Tray-less 3x3.5 (owened)

Any comments, concerns, or questions?

Blebekblebek · April 2, 2015

since you going to purchase almost every essential parts for your nas

why not get this http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Specifications

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157475

it's so far the most recommended hardware for NAS

it's not desktop grade, it is server grade

12 Sata ports, Octa core, Dual Intel LAN

since you going to bought additional sata card (which probably will have problems with driver/hardware raid, if you are lucky through that working part)

but again.. it's your choice, FreeNas unlike the old "freenas" which using old hardware (or rather desktop parts) for this stuff again.

Night_Rider0 · April 3, 2015

since you going to purchase almost every essential parts for your nas

why not get this http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=C2750D4I#Specifications

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157475

it's so far the most recommended hardware for NAS

it's not desktop grade, it is server grade

12 Sata ports, Octa core, Dual Intel LAN

since you going to bought additional sata card (which probably will have problems with driver/hardware raid, if you are lucky through that working part)

but again.. it's your choice, FreeNas unlike the old "freenas" which using old hardware (or rather desktop parts) for this stuff again.

I appreciate the feedback thats what this forum is for i will consider it because it might even be cheaper then the original system i was going to build!