New server build (tips on config)

[zachsa999]

I am planning a network upgrade, (nas drive) and my router will not be capable of supporting that amount of use.

The plan is to if possible (everything is possible) build a linux server that acts as a switch/router/nas devices. How am I to do this, and what sort of system performance am I looking at needing?

 

Thanks in advance for the tips.

[Electronics Wizardy]

How many tb do you need?

 

What performance do you need from the nas?

 

Budget?

 

Get a seprate switch, no reason to do it in software.

 

What router features do you need, id still suggest gettting a seprate router.

[Nikolithebear]

As ElectronicWizardy said.  

A handful of questions.

1. How many TB are you storing, what kind of speeds are you wanting to hit?  What Storage based serves will this serve?

 

2. Get a seperate switch.  Any Mikrotik switch will do IMO, or even a netgear dumb switch.

 

3. What router features do you want?  What Internet speed do you have?  If you're replacing your router, I assume you dont have a seperate access point (Wifi).

 

  I'd personally suggest seperately them, but that's up to you.

[Windows7ge]

It's generally not recommended to mix Server/NAS services with Router/Switch services. There's risks involved with both, if one system goes down for whatever reason you don't want it to takeout the other.

 

I would build one Router/Switch and one Server/NAS.

 

For a Router/Switch both pfSense & VyOS are popular.

 

For a Server/NAS FreeNAS, UnRAID, and Open Media Vault are popular. You could also build one from the ground up with the likes of Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 LTS, CentOS 7, or Fedora 32.

 

If you want a hypervisor Windows HyperV, UnRAID, VMWare ESXi, & PROXMOX are popular. There's also QEMU/KVM + virt-manager available on Debian, RHL, etc.

[zachsa999]

18 hours ago, Nikolithebear said:

As ElectronicWizardy said.  

A handful of questions.

1. How many TB are you storing, what kind of speeds are you wanting to hit?  What Storage based serves will this serve?

 

2. Get a seperate switch.  Any Mikrotik switch will do IMO, or even a netgear dumb switch.

 

3. What router features do you want?  What Internet speed do you have?  If you're replacing your router, I assume you dont have a seperate access point (Wifi).

 

  I'd personally suggest seperately them, but that's up to you.

I would want at least 10 TB storage, and max out my 1gb local networking for file transfers. (this is experimental, as I don't currently have a nas drive, and would be integrating features as I go. 

 

I would also be keeping the router for wifi AP. (My office is in the corner of my house, the wifi needs to be centralized, but the bulk or the routing would be directly to ethernet)

 

The router needs to have bandwidth controls as my internet speed is slow, and there is a large amount of people using it. I need a firewall, and it needs to have a static as well as DCHP pool availability. Give me your worst.

[zachsa999]

2 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

It's generally not recommended to mix Server/NAS services with Router/Switch services. There's risks involved with both, if one system goes down for whatever reason you don't want it to takeout the other.

 

I would build one Router/Switch and one Server/NAS.

 

For a Router/Switch both pfSense & VyOS are popular.

 

For a Server/NAS FreeNAS, UnRAID, and Open Media Vault are popular. You could also build one from the ground up with the likes of Ubuntu Server 20.04.1 LTS, CentOS 7, or Fedora 32.

 

If you want a hypervisor Windows HyperV, UnRAID, VMWare ESXi, & PROXMOX are popular. There's also QEMU/KVM + virt-manager available on Debian, RHL, etc.

What system specs does a gigabit nas drive need to support full bandwidth for two users. 4 cores, and 4Gb ram? or do a raid servers use all thet can get?

[Windows7ge]

13 minutes ago, zachsa999 said:

What system specs does a gigabit nas drive need to support full bandwidth for two users. 4 cores, and 4Gb ram? or do a raid servers use all thet can get?

If the CPU is of a new enough architecture 2C/4T & 4GB of RAM should be more than sufficient for a 1Gbit network with 2 clients.

 

RAID is optional if you need resiliency in the event of drive failure but even a single HDD can saturate Gigabit and 2 clients unless their workloads are particularly demanding probably won't need the I/O of a larger array. RAID1, RAId5, or RAID10 would probably have you covered.

 

For future expansion though I'd go for a platform with room for a stronger CPU, more RAM, & more SATA ports.