Freenas Rebuild

[Not Name]

im looking at updating my sever what case/hardware would be the way to go, as my old cpu and motherboard has died.

my budget is 1500 to 2000

 

[WkdPaul]

* thread moved to the New Builds & Planning section *

[Electronics Wizardy]

rack mount or tower? How much performance do you need? What network intefaces? How much storage? Does this cost include drives? Do you have drives already?

 

Gonna need more details here.

[Not Name]

tower 1gb lan card and 3x16tb hdd and 2x256gb ssd

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Not Name said:

tower 1gb lan card and 3x16tb hdd and 2x256gb ssd

What are the ssds for? you probably don't want ssd caching here.

 

How about this 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nc42Vc

CPU: Intel Core i3-10100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($114.59 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING B460M-PLUS (WI-FI) Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard  ($129.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: OLOy 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory  ($87.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Kingston A400 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($19.98 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($123.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: EVGA G3 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($99.99 @ Newegg) 
External Storage: Seagate Expansion 16 TB External Hard Drive  ($294.99 @ B&H) 
External Storage: Seagate Expansion 16 TB External Hard Drive  ($294.99 @ B&H) 
External Storage: Seagate Expansion 16 TB External Hard Drive  ($294.99 @ B&H) 
Total: $1461.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-05 10:44 EST-0500

 

Shuck the external drives to use them. Got a i3 as its more than enough cpu power.

[shoutingsteve]

Sorry I'm late to the party, but dump the SSDs for you OS and just put it on a USB thumbdrive.  It frees up SATA ports for more drives.  Keep a copy of  your config file on a separate media in case the thumb drive conks out.

How are yo planning on divvying up those 16tb? If Z-raid1 (yields 32 gb) You could now still get the same storage for less money by using you two free'd up SATA slots and going for 4x 8 TB drives.  I would recomend going z-raid 2, though as the rebuild in case of failure could kill the surviving disks. If you go this method, get 10GB drives and (still save money).

Also, make sure that all NAS drives are PMR or CMR, not SMR! SMR is bad for large files and will increase your write times by ten fold on FreeNAS.