g3258 for NAS

[hammerslap1]

would the anniversary g3258 work well for a nas set up? if not is there another cpu that would be nice and inexpensive that would give me enough performance for what im doing? i plan on using a 4gigabit nic and a lsi raid card with raid 5 and a butt load of 7200rpm seagate baracudas

[Fulgrim]

If it's just for storing files and accessing them, then aye sure. But if you plan to host anything off the NAS, i would recommend only something like Teamspeak/Vent.

[Priller]

would the anniversary g3258 work well for a nas set up? if not is there another cpu that would be nice and inexpensive that would give me enough performance for what im doing? i plan on using a 4gigabit nic and a lsi raid card with raid 5 and a butt load of 7200rpm seagate baracudas

 

The CPU doesn't really go with the available output of data that setup is capable of. 

 

Use WD Red drives with the Raid 5 or 6 and something stronger then a G3258.

[hammerslap1]

its only going to be for file storage and system backups. and i was going for the seagates because they were recomended by linus in his nas video. since they are known to do well in raid setups. also they are really reasonably priced

[Priller]

its only going to be for file storage and system backups. and i was going for the seagates because they were recomended by linus in his nas video. since they are known to do well in raid setups. also they are really reasonably priced

 

It will do fine until one of those drives fails and you go to rebuild the array and you have a bad sector on another drive and it brings down the entire Raid array. In which all of the information is lost.

[hammerslap1]

are the reds really that much better? they are like 30 bucks more each. so like 200-300 bucks more for the array i want to build

[DirkW]

are the reds really that much better? they are like 30 bucks more each. so like 200-300 bucks more for the array i want to build

Well, they are optimized for RAID and 24/7 operation. They won't be faster, but chances are, they will run more stable in a NAS / RAID environment than many other drives.

 

You really want to use 7-10 HDDs (judging from your 200-300 cost, at 30 per drive...)? May I ask why so many? Do you really need that much disk space? And what size HDDs will you be using? IIRC Reds are available from 1 to 6 TB, I believe Greens as well... so with RAID5 and 10 disks that could leave you with between ~9 and ~54 TB of usable storage (although I doubt, you'll be using 5 or 6 TB drives, as they are quite expensive). Even with 3 TB drives, you'd end up with 27 GB. I know few people who'd ever need that much...

[hammerslap1]

well i found barracuda 3tb drives for 99 bucks each so for less than $1000 i could do 10 drives which in a raid 5 would be around 25tb. yes i know that quite a lot but once i get my movies ripped, stash my music and pictures to it, and save all my recordings coming from my htpc the space might get filled up fast even if i am constantly getting rid of recorded shows ive already watched. was kind of thinking of a partition for my steam library as well but not sure

[Priller]

well i found barracuda 3tb drives for 99 bucks each so for less than $1000 i could do 10 drives which in a raid 5 would be around 25tb. yes i know that quite a lot but once i get my movies ripped, stash my music and pictures to it, and save all my recordings coming from my htpc the space might get filled up fast even if i am constantly getting rid of recorded shows ive already watched. was kind of thinking of a partition for my steam library as well but not sure

 

You want 3TB Reds for 121 each. Probably can find them cheaper.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236344

 

8 drives is 975. 9 Drives is 1098.00

 

Read this to better understand what T.L.E.R. Is. It's worth the 22 dollars a drive when you will get better Error survivability and raid rebuilding.

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/other/2579-001098.pdf