I NEED AN ANSWER FOR FREENAS

[nickgibboni1]

Hey guys.  I need a final answer for FreeNAS.  important data will be stored on here that I really don't want to lose (home videos, valuable pics etc) which is why I will definitely be going with ECC ram. I have about 5TB of hard drive space to put stuff on. so, Which the better option?

 

 

1) g3220 Pentium, h87 ASRock mobo, 24GB micron ddr3 ECC ram, $140 in total

                                                         OR

2)  2x x5260 Xeons, Supermicro X7DCL-3 dual socket mobo, 16GB Kingston ddr2 ECC ram, $70 in total

 

Thanks a lot for all the help because i really need help deciding 

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Well, build 1 doesn't fully support ECC. If the RAM is un-registered/un-buffered, it may work, but ECC features will not. You'd need a different board. 

Build 2 will work fully with registered ECC, so it would be the one I would be temped to go for. 

[nickgibboni1]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Well, build 1 doesn't fully support ECC. If the RAM is un-registered/un-buffered, it may work, but ECC features will not. You'd need a different board. 

Build 2 will work fully with registered ECC, so it would be the one I would be temped to go for. 

 

its way cheaper too.  will the older hardware work ok?

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, nickgibboni1 said:

its way cheaper too.  will the older hardware work ok?

It'll work (provided the components aren't damaged). Have you made sure the RAM on build 2 is registered/buffered? The board won't work with unregistered/un-buffered RAM. 

FreeNAS itself doesn't use much processing power. It can be a bit of a RAM hog with ZFS and plugins/apps running in jails, though. Apps like Plex can use a fair bit of processing power when transcoding, but it really depends on what you're planning on doing with it. 

[nickgibboni1]

no plex   storing movies and stuff on there and just accessing it through the windows CIFS share and streaming to a chromecast  pretty much  the max for me i would say  the ram is registered --> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingston-16GB-Kit-4x4GB-DDR2-667MHz-PC2-5300-Registered-ECC-KTH-XW9400K2-8G-/162002453363?hash=item25b8194373:g:09cAAOSwu1VW4MyY