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I am using a Q6600 with some old mobo just for a backup. I am planning to use freenas with a 1tb red or something (have not deiced). It now has 6gb of ddr2 do i need more? Will the old system work?  one wd red or two wd blue 1tb in raid.

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6Gb of Ddr2 667 good for freenas for 2 pcs? I am running a Q6600

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8 GB is the recommended minimum for feenas.

How bin of an array are you planning on having?

One wd 1tb red just one drive. what would you recommend for a nas for 2-4 pcs in a home.

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One wd 1tb red just one drive. what would you recommend for a nas for 2-4 pcs in a home.

Will you be using ZFS? 

FreeNAS' minimum recommend RAM for ZFS is 8GB.

It's minimum recommended RAM for UFS is 1GB. 

You need ZFS to use Plugins like Plex & such, but UFS is fine for a basic file server.

If you aren't comfortable using ZFS with 6GB of RAM, then I recommend Amahi. It doesn't have ZFS, but it's simple and has low requirements, but still lets you use things like Plex and other plugins fairly easily.

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Will you be using ZFS? 

FreeNAS' minimum recommend RAM for ZFS is 8GB.

It's minimum recommended RAM for UFS is 1GB. 

You need ZFS to use Plugins like Plex & such, but UFS is fine for a basic file server.

If you aren't comfortable using ZFS with 6GB of RAM, then I recommend Amahi. It doesn't have ZFS, but it's simple and has low requirements, but still lets you use things like Plex and other plugins fairly easily.

Is this good or not? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/m2C9Lk

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Is this good or not? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/m2C9Lk

What is the SSD for? FreeNAS uses all the storage on a device. You can't partition it. Use a USB drive. 8GB-16GB is best. It would cost less too.

Other than that, sure, that's fine. You don't have ECC RAM (it's more expensive too), so don't use Scrubs on ZFS. You can still use ZFS, but using Scrubs actually might be more dangerous than not using them. 

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What is the SSD for? FreeNAS uses all the storage on a device. You can't partition it. Use a USB drive. 8GB-16GB is best. It would cost less too.

Other than that, sure, that's fine. You don't have ECC RAM (it's more expensive too), so don't use Scrubs on ZFS. You can still use ZFS, but using Scrubs actually might be more dangerous than not using them

 

should i get ecc or it really does not matter?

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should i get ecc or it really does not matter?

For most people, it really doesn't matter. I wouldn't worry about it myself.

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I am using a Q6600 with some old mobo just for a backup. I am planning to use freenas with a 1tb red or something (have not deiced). It now has 6gb of ddr2 do i need more? Will the old system work?  one wd red or two wd blue 1tb in raid.

 

Hey TheGeeker,
 
Regarding the storage, I would advise you to go with WD Red. It is designed for NAS, servers and RAID and has some additional features that make it a more reliable and optimized drive for such environments. WD Blue are great drives but they lack important features for RAID usage and might cause problems with drive dropouts, corrupted data and that would put your data in risk. I would suggest either going with a single 2TB WD Red or two 1TB WD Red in RAID (whichever you need). :)
 
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Hey TheGeeker,
 
Regarding the storage, I would advise you to go with WD Red. It is designed for NAS, servers and RAID and has some additional features that make it a more reliable and optimized drive for such environments. WD Blue are great drives but they lack important features for RAID usage and might cause problems with drive dropouts, corrupted data and that would put your data in risk. I would suggest either going with a single 2TB WD Red or two 1TB WD Red in RAID (whichever you need). :)
 
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Thanks. So this thing is going with the rest of my pcs. Im my room. which i sleep in. so i am adding more cost for these http://pcpartpicker.com/p/mNfCcf will the airflow work out. i dont know. O am going to try with one 1tb drive dont think i need anymore. can i just add one more 1tb later if needed? thanks

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I am using a Q6600 with some old mobo just for a backup. I am planning to use freenas with a 1tb red or something (have not deiced). It now has 6gb of ddr2 do i need more? Will the old system work?  one wd red or two wd blue 1tb in raid.

FreeNAS has quite a bit of information available about hardware requirements, I recommend

you have a good look at those.

Starting point: http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/2015/02/a-complete-guide-to-freenas-hardware-design-part-i-purpose-and-best-practices.html

In general, FreeNAS can be pretty demanding when it comes to hardware.

@Vitalius and @wpirobotbuilder have more experience with it than I do though, so they might

be able to give you more detailed input.

EDIT: Just noticed there are two topics for your build, so I've merged them.

It's okay to make one topic with several questions in the same section. ;)

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Thanks. So this thing is going with the rest of my pcs. Im my room. which i sleep in. so i am adding more cost for these http://pcpartpicker.com/p/mNfCcf will the airflow work out. i dont know. O am going to try with one 1tb drive dont think i need anymore. can i just add one more 1tb later if needed? thanks

 

Yes, you can add more drives to the pool down the road. Depends on how you will manage your pool, you can either freely add the drive and it will rebuild itself, or you would have to manually back up your data externally and then transfer it back once the pool is ready to have it. :)
 
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I am using a Q6600 with some old mobo just for a backup. I am planning to use freenas with a 1tb red or something (have not deiced). It now has 6gb of ddr2 do i need more? Will the old system work?  one wd red or two wd blue 1tb in raid.

You'll have plenty of CPU power, but not enough memory to be absolutely sure the system is stable. If you can get more than 8GB then you should be able to use FreeNAS.

 

If you can't you should check out mdadm on Ubuntu. That's decent software RAID.

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You'll have plenty of CPU power, but not enough memory to be absolutely sure the system is stable. If you can get more than 8GB then you should be able to use FreeNAS.

 

If you can't you should check out mdadm on Ubuntu. That's decent software RAID.

Yup, mdadm is pretty decent. For convenience, one can also combine LVM + mdadm.

There's also a rather extensive home server guide my @MG2R about setting up

a home server with Debian, which can be found here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/6398-howto-create-your-own-linux-home-server-using-debian/

mdadm is much more frugal when it comes to hardware requirements than ZFS, so if that's

important it might be worth a look.

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Yup, mdadm is pretty decent. For convenience, one can also combine LVM + mdadm.

There's also a rather extensive home server guide my @MG2R about setting up

a home server with Debian, which can be found here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/6398-howto-create-your-own-linux-home-server-using-debian/

mdadm is much more frugal when it comes to hardware requirements than ZFS, so if that's

important it might be worth a look.

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Regarding mdadm requirements: Debian + mdadm + LVM + samba + transmission (torrent client) + usenet client + sickbeard + couch potato = intel celeron 1.6 GHz single core + 512 MB or RAM :)

 

Which explains why I'm running an octocore avaton processor at 2.3 GHz with 16 GB ECC RAM... Oh wait, it doesn't :P

 

Seriously though: mdadm + LVM should serve just fine as a home storage system.

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