New NAS! Let me know what you think.

[DirtyGear]

I'm putting together parts for my new NAS!  This RAID1 4TB NAS will run on FreeNAS and will boot off of the 32GB M.2 SSD.  The reason I went with an i5 is because most of the pre-designed NAS systems sold run on atoms.  I was afraid that the ZFS file system would walk all over the atom resulting in unusable or lower speeds.  Not listed here is a 4 port ethernet PCIe card.  Please let me know what you think about my list, did I go too far overboard, not far enough?

Thanks for all of your input,

-DirtyGear

[Lolzious]

JESUS

That is more powerful then my gaming PC, apart from having GPU

[DirtyGear]

:lol:  Thanks!?!?  I'm just trying to squeeze every bit of speed I can out of this thing.  My current server is so slow.

Also if you're referring to the ram, ZFS requires A LOT of ram to operate to its fullest.

[OhhTee]

:lol: Thanks!?!? I'm just trying to squeeze every bit of speed I can out of this thing. My current server is so slow.

Also if you're referring to the ram, ZFS requires A LOT of ram to operate to its fullest.

Make sure you're grabbing ecc ram. Pretty sure FreeNAS ZFS requires 1 gb of ecc ram for every 1 tb of storage.

[dadasmithywinkle]

Stupid overkill imo. I have a Pent. D 945, 4GB of ram, a 3TB Red from WD, a 120GB OCZ SSD, and a stock mobo/case/etc. as my backup rig and it works fine.

[Ahaber]

This is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy to much for a nas. just build a little itx build with an i3 or pentium or something and you will be fine

[Knowing]

Hella overkill for for FreeNAS. Also, why the case? You could easily get a cheaper case for it.

[DirtyGear]

The reason behind the case is just looks and cooling.  I might consider downgrading to an i3, but again I want to make sure ZFS won't bog it down.  Can somebody link an example of ecc ram?  I don't think I know anything about that.

-Thanks!

[kuhchuk]

The reason behind the case is just looks and cooling.  I might consider downgrading to an i3, but again I want to make sure ZFS won't bog it down.  Can somebody link an example of ecc ram?  I don't think I know anything about that.

-Thanks!

 

While it's not a strict requirement, it's a very strong recommendation.

http://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html

[DirtyGear]

Thank you for the advice, I've changed my ram to the following 32GB Kingston DDR3 1600.  The Cas Latency is 11.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239371

[rtpb5642]

The sata cables r a bit pricey as the motherboard should come with them.

With that i5 have u considered using ubuntu server or red hat?

[DirtyGear]

The sata cables r a bit pricey as the motherboard should come with them.

With that i5 have u considered using ubuntu server or red hat?

The motherboard didn't come with enough angled SATA cables for the 3 HDDs.  The server I currently have is running xubuntu with samba, I am unfortunately suffering from the crutch that is gui.  I don't know how to work a cli, which is why I chose FreeNAS for the new server.

[skywake]

As others have said, this is seriously overkill and a waste of money. You'll hit HDD and network bottlenecks well before you hit CPU bottlenecks. Just using neweggs pricing you could get yourself a four bay QNAP TS-453-PRO, populate it with FOUR 4TB WD Reds AND spend a good $300 or so less than the price you have here. And for that you'd get three times the storage, be able to saturate a full 1Gbps link but also have a quad Gigabit NIC in your NAS for Link Aggregation if you wanted.

 

Really, you're just burning your own money. It's way, way too much money to be spending on a NAS that is only going to be populated with two drives in RAID 1.

[smogsy]

ive built a few Nas's in my day.

 

One using Fedora, which due to samba performance was terrible.  write 25mb/s... read 40mb/s

one using W7 which was good using reads 76mb/s writes 50mb/s

 

it was fun but could get so annoying at the wrong times (need to do a backup?) oh wait samba is being a ****

 

Now i just use synlogy devices

my current one gets me 200mb/s read 120mb/s writes in RAID 1

 

i would suggest something like this  would stioll most likely be cheaper in long run. 
(and more eco friendly on your bill)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=12K-012A-00001&cm_re=synology-_-12K-012A-00001-_-Product

 

 

oh and my old nas was running i7 940 16gb ram 4 1tb disks... so no slouch

[JustinBieber]

Might as well put a full blown server OS on it.