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JOELwindows7

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    JOELwindows7 reacted to Plouffe in How Bad is This $10,000 PC from 10 Years Ago??   
    Can you really future proof? The Classified SR-2 seems to think so, and we're maxing out its upgrade path to see what it can REALLY do with 24 threads from 2011.
     
    Buy a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2TB SSD: https://geni.us/dbZt8As
    Buy an EVGA Supernova 1600 T2 PSU: https://geni.us/IaGmV
    Buy Corsair 1600MT/S CL9 1x4GB DDR3 RAM: https://geni.us/5ctrysL
    Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group.
     
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    JOELwindows7 reacted to Miklos in Building a NAS at home? Don't use unRaid or hardware RAID   
    I love watching LTT videos but with the recent influx of NAS/Storage videos I often have to behave like an old man yelling at the TV because I see silly mistakes.
     
    Building your own NAS? Here are some basic rules of thumb:
     
    1) Filesystem has to be ZFS
    2) No hardware RAID cards
    3) You can never have too much RAM (aim for 1GB RAM per TB of usable storage)
    4) FILESYSTEM HAS TO BE ZFS
     
    If you stick to those few rules, you will have a great time, but this excludes unRaid which LTT likes to use for dedicated NAS builds. unRaid uses an inferior filesystem and has strange limitations while costing money in some situations. This is nuts, as there is a superior free alternative that is just as easy to use, FreeNAS. Personally I have a FreeNAS at home but I use FreeBSD professionally to run all our NAS solutions both in Europe and in Asia.
     
    New to FreeNAS? There are many blog posts, guides and videos on the subject but I always recommend checking out the excellent official documentation: http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas.html (current version)
     
    And I'm sure there are a lot of people here that are more than willing to aid you in case you need help finding hardware.
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