Home server buils

[Calie Burger]

Good day to all from far and wide. 

I'm planning on building a home server. I've been considering freenas as the backbone of the build. 

My build is as follows. 

i5 3470 

Some msi atx motherboars honestly can't remember the exact name. 

2x 4tb wd blue drives 

16gb of ram 

And a 500w antec pcu. 

Now I have a long list of questions. How much should I worry about vibrations in the pc case for longevity of the drives (using an old pc case). Should I worry about cashing and maby add a 120gb ssd in the build? 

I'm planning on using it as a picture backup and a plex movie server. 

 

All recommendations are welcome and any advice going into such a project 

[SansVarnic]

-= Moved to New Builds and Planning =-

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, Calie Burger said:

2x 4tb wd blue drives 

are these new? Id stay from most new blue drives in zfs and other raid configs cause smr

 

6 minutes ago, Calie Burger said:

Now I have a long list of questions. How much should I worry about vibrations in the pc case for longevity of the drives

probably not a big issues with only 2 drives. 

 

6 minutes ago, Calie Burger said:

Should I worry about cashing

probalby not, you probalby network limited anyways, and a l2arc doesn't make file copys faster, it only really helps with random workloads like databases.

 

 

[Calie Burger]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

are these new? Id stay from most new blue drives in zfs and other raid configs cause smr

 

probably not a big issues with only 2 drives. 

 

probalby not, you probalby network limited anyways, and a l2arc doesn't make file copys faster, it only really helps with random workloads like databases.

 

 

Thanks for all the tips man and yes I'd go with new drives. I'm very happy with wd to be honest, never had a drive fail from them (not the same as for Seagate) but anywho. Okay I was thinking on running them raid 1 so that I have a backup of the drive. 

 

Okay thanks I've heard plex can really hammer your cpu for the encoding tasks specifically with 20mbs data stream. 

 

Sorry Mr moderator for the wrong groups, it's been a while

[Nocte]

For home servers I would only go with WD reds, not blues. 

[Calie Burger]

1 minute ago, Nocte said:

For home servers I would only go with WD reds, not blues. 

Yeah that's the general consensus but are reds really that big a difference? Longevity wise? 

[Nocte]

4 minutes ago, Calie Burger said:

Yeah that's the general consensus but are reds really that big a difference? Longevity wise? 

Yes, they have double (or four-times depending on the country) the warranty length. So WD checks them much better than other disks. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 minutes ago, Calie Burger said:

Thanks for all the tips man and yes I'd go with new drives. I'm very happy with wd to be honest, never had a drive fail from them (not the same as for Seagate) but anywho. Okay I was thinking on running them raid 1 so that I have a backup of the drive.

raid is not a backup, you still want a backup, offiste is better.

 

You don't want blue drives for a nas, esp the new smr ones.

 

For a home nas, id probalby run a single drive, with a good bakcup

12 minutes ago, Calie Burger said:

Okay thanks I've heard plex can really hammer your cpu for the encoding tasks specifically with 20mbs data stream. 

are you transcoding?
 

This system should easily handle a single transcode

 

5 minutes ago, Calie Burger said:

Yeah that's the general consensus but are reds really that big a difference? Longevity wise? 

Id stay away from reds now due to smr, If you want cheap big drves, shuck the 8tb externals drives.

 

If you want good nas drives, id probably go ironwolfs.