Good NAS Build?

[Redfern]

Hi, I have been wanting to put a FreeNAS together for a while and these are the parts I have got so far:

 

CPU- Intel Xeon W3520

MB - GIGABYTE X58-USB3

RAM - 8GB ECC RAM

 

I got these for all quite cheap, under £50 for all of them together and I was just wondering is this is any good to start with. I thought I needed a decent CPU, even though its old, for things like multi-channel ethernet connections and better transfer speed, should I change anything? Im going to get the HDD and case soon too, although it will need to be a ATX case, thanks

[Jon Trollston]

That for fiddy bucks is very good. It should work very well as long as you dont expect too much from it  If you want better transfer speeds, you can get a 10 gigabit pcie expansion card.

[Redfern]

1 minute ago, Jon Trollston said:

That for fiddy bucks is very good. It should work very well as long as you dont expect too much from it  If you want better transfer speeds, you can get a 10 gigabit pcie expansion card.

Yeah I just want some decent transfer speed, around 100mb/s? What could I expect? Thanks

[the darronator]

Decent build, should be able to do some decent performance.

 

[the darronator]

Just now, Redfern said:

Yeah I just want some decent transfer speed, around 100mb/s? What could I expect? Thanks

You could easily get 100 mb/s with that!

As jon said a 10gb/s or a multi link Ethernet connection could improve this too!

Cheers,sam

[Redfern]

Just now, the darronator said:

You could easily get 100 mb/s with that!

As jon said a 10gb/s or a multi link Ethernet connection could improve this too!

Cheers,sam

Great thanks, yeah I am looking at some multi-link nics too  also I'm brand new to this NAS build and was just wondering, I know it's a stupid question, do you connect through the router to the other computer or do you connect directly between machines using Ethernet, thanks

[the darronator]

3 minutes ago, Redfern said:

do you connect through the router to the other computer or do you connect directly between machines using Ethernet

You connect through a router or switch, hope I helped

[Redfern]

Just now, the darronator said:

You connect through a router or switch, hope I helped

Thank you!

[the darronator]

Just now, Redfern said:

Thank you!

No problem, hope the build goes well.

Out of curiosity, what raid setup will you do?

[Redfern]

Just now, the darronator said:

No problem, hope the build goes well.

Out of curiosity, what raid setup will you do?

Thank you, me too I might post a build log maybe

Im not really sure, I don't know too much I was thinking RAID 1?

[the darronator]

1 minute ago, Redfern said:

Thank you, me too I might post a build log maybe

Im not really sure, I don't know too much I was thinking RAID 1?

Well if you are using 2 drives, that's a good setup.

Then just get a 2 port raid card of amazon or something and you should be up and running!

[Redfern]

1 minute ago, the darronator said:

Well if you are using 2 drives, that's a good setup.

Then just get a 2 port raid card of amazon or something and you should be up and running!

Awesome! Thank you

[Jon Trollston]

Yep, a few expansion cards and you'll be running a little beast there. 

[Redfern]

Just now, Jon Trollston said:

Yep, a few expansion cards and you'll be running a little beast there. 

Thanks, would you recommend any or should I just get a cheap one?

[Jon Trollston]

1 minute ago, Redfern said:

Thanks, would you recommend any or should I just get a cheap one?

Yep, linus very recently did a video on some good 10 gigabit network expansion cards. Honestly though, find some cheap stuff and then just do a real quick google search to see if there's any major problems with it and you should be fine. 

[the darronator]

1 minute ago, Redfern said:

Thanks, would you recommend any or should I just get a cheap one?

Well if you had a decent buget and want reliability go for WD red hard drives and something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BUC3NNS?keywords=raid%20card&qid=1456054709&ref_=sr_1_9&sr=8-9

If you are a cheep person, WD green hdds will be ok and something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003GS8VA4?keywords=raid%20card&qid=1456054709&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2

 

no I'm not sponsored

[Redfern]

Just now, the darronator said:

Well if you had a decent buget and want reliability go for WD red hard drives and something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BUC3NNS?keywords=raid%20card&qid=1456054709&ref_=sr_1_9&sr=8-9

If you are a cheep person, WD green hdds will be ok and something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003GS8VA4?keywords=raid%20card&qid=1456054709&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2

 

no I'm not sponsored

 

2 minutes ago, Jon Trollston said:

Yep, linus very recently did a video on some good 10 gigabit network expansion cards. Honestly though, find some cheap stuff and then just do a real quick google search to see if there's any major problems with it and you should be fine. 

Thanks, ill give this a shot