Kevin Liu

Ok! I would just use the PSU that comes with it then!

Does anyone knows why L9I's feet are not touching the MB? Is it supposed to be like this or is there something wrong? the cooler seems to be touching the CPU no problem, but all of the feet are hanging like 3-4mm above the MB.

Actually I've never heard about Integra SFX 450W PSU.. Even their website doesn't have it listed. Seems like a special version with the node 202 and it is different than regular integral 450W PSU. BTW I never heard about Integra PSU either....

Well my order is already shipped so I don't have much choices. Unless the psu that comes with it absolutely terrible I don't think I will change it.

OK..... so 450W would be enough.... but do I really need to buy another psu for this build? since I my node 202 comes with a psu, I don't want to throw that away if I actually can use it. I guess this comes down to whether the build quality of node 202 psu is good..?

So MSI is misleading then? or maybe they think everyone who buy their cards is going to overclock it lol.

Well... I know Silverstone has better PSU but I want to make sure before I throw money on them since node 202 comes with one.

Well the title says it all. I have Intel i5-4460 Asus H97I-PLUS Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB kit MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G Samsung 950 EVO 250GB It seems like Luke and @JayzTwoCents build it without problem, but MSI actually calls for a 500W PSU. So should I buy another PSU for this? Or I can just use the 450W one that comes with node 202? Thanks.

I am aware of that since freenas requires at least 8GB ram to function well....

Thanks for all of your suggestion. I would probably go with RAIDZ2 with 6 drives or RAIDZ3 with 7 drives if I want more protection. So Linus what does unraid can give me that freenas can't? I don't think you have a video talk about the benefits of unraid yet.... I don't want to throw in 80 bucks to get unraid but only use the same feature that freenas can give me. thank you all again.

That's only if I strip them together right? If like what Linus said I can't get 4 GbE connection from the NAS, then I won't strip them together.....

Thanks For the reply! So even if I plug 4 ports from FreeNas to my switch, I will still only have 1 gigabit correct? If that's the case, the best way to do it might just be RAID 5 or RAID 6?

Hi everyone, I am new to the forum, but have watched Linus' video for a long time. So the thing is that right now I am using a QNAP home NAS, and the read/write speed is way lower than I needed. So I want to build an 8 hard drives NAS with FreeNas, and thinking about either use RAID10 or RAID50. The NAS will have 4 ethernet ports connect to my switch with link aggregation, which will be 4GbE, and on the other end of the switch will be my main computer with 4 port link aggregation as well. (Linus proved this work in one of his videos) I am not really worry about other devices since I won't be coping large files on those devices anyway..... Parts that I will be using: Supermicro X11SSL-F Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 IMB ServerRaid M1015 crossflash to IT mode 16GB ECC Ram DDR4 I will be using 1TB hard drives, so RAID 10 will give me 4TB space while RAID 50 will give me 6TB of space. For me, 4TB is more than enough for backup my files as well as streaming movies. So the question is 1. What read/write speed can I get from RAID 10 and RAID 50 (in a 8 hard drive NAS)? Can either of them take full advantage of the 4GbE ethernet connection I have? 2. Which RAID is safer just in case of a hard drive failure? I've heard RAID 50 is safer since any hard drive can fail, but if I loose two of the mirrored drives in RAID10, I will loose everything. But how slower RAID 50 will be? Thank you all!