HELP - unRAID NAS Server build

[iHoller]

I'm trying to build a unRAID NAS Server for video import, PLEX and VM's.

 

Hardware i need help with:
- Case (Inter-Tech IPC 4U-4408 4HE)

- PSU (Corsair HX750i (750w 80 Plus® Platinum))

- SSD for cash (Samsung 750 EVO SSD - 250GB)

 

Can this hardware match the hardware i already have?

Can i use the 2x 1gb port for 2 internet connections? (i have an ADSL and an Coax connection to be save)

Can you recommend a better solution for this setup?

 

Hardware i have:
- 2x CPU Intel® Xeon X5660

- 12x 4GB DDR3 ECC 10600

- Motherboard Intel S5520HC

- 4x WD NAS Pro Red 5TB WD5001FFWX (in raid 1)

 

 

[LionSpeck]

I'm not a server / workstation expert, but to me these components seem pretty good; the only thing I have to contest is the SSD, because although the 850 EVO is the best performance for the price, it's not the best performer out there and Samsung SSD (and non-enterprise / NAS ones for that matter) are not the best for high cycles of rewriting. I would replace that with a Kingston V or KC or some other Enterprise SSD.

[iHoller]

1 minute ago, LionSpeck said:

I'm not a server / workstation expert, but to me these components seem pretty good; the only thing I have to contest is the SSD, because although the 850 EVO is the best performance for the price, it's not the best performer out there and Samsung SSD (and non-enterprise / NAS ones for that matter) are not the best for high cycles of rewriting. I would replace that with a Kingston V or KC or some other Enterprise SSD.

its for cash so the speed of the rig i overall better, will a faster SSD over SATA600 be better then?

[LionSpeck]

I'm not criticizing your SSD choice for speed, but for relyability; enterprise SSDs (as HDDs) are rated (and covered by warranty) for a lot more of rewriting cycles to the solid state cells, therefore they'll last longer without needing for over provisioning and / or errors. This is because I am expecting by a NAS cache to be written during the day, flushed at night and all over again every day, so it gets a ton of rewriting.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, iHoller said:

Can i use the 2x 1gb port for 2 internet connections? (i have an ADSL and an Coax connection to be save)

Not easily(you can if you pass the networks to a vm and have fun networking)

 

Id buy a router to do that for you.

 

Also it won't just make your connection 2s the speed.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, LionSpeck said:

I'm not criticizing your SSD choice for speed, but for relyability; enterprise SSDs (as HDDs) are rated (and covered by warranty) for a lot more of rewriting cycles to the solid state cells, therefore they'll last longer without needing for over provisioning and / or errors. This is because I am expecting by a NAS cache to be written during the day, flushed at night and all over again every day, so it gets a ton of rewriting.

You can write a lot of data to a ssd before it goes,  Its going to last over 5 years.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, iHoller said:

SSD for cash (Samsung 750 EVO SSD - 250GB)

No real reason to do this.

 

Id personally just use a raid 5.

1 hour ago, iHoller said:

4x WD NAS Pro Red 5TB WD5001FFWX (in raid 1)

Don't use raid 1, you get the capicity of one drive, Id run raid 5, raid 10 is also a good option.

 

 

 

Id personally not use unraid, and use something like proxmox. Its free and has more functionality.

[iHoller]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id personally just use a raid 5.

Don't use raid 1, you get the capicity of one drive, Id run raid 5, raid 10 is also a good option.

Then i need a Raid controller for at least 4 drives. What is the cost of that? and what controller is best for the price?

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, iHoller said:

Then i need a Raid controller for at least 4 drives. What is the cost of that? and what controller is best for the price?

You can use something like ZFS on linux so you don't need a raid controller. If you want a cheap raid card look at a dell h700.

[iHoller]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You can use something like ZFS on linux so you don't need a raid controller. If you want a cheap raid card look at a dell h700.

ZFS is that supported on unRAID?
Need at least 4 disks spaces for my raid card.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, iHoller said:

ZFS is that supported on unRAID?
Need at least 4 disks spaces for my raid card.

Do you need unraid?

 

If you use unraid they have there own raid thing.

 

That raid card has 8 ports with the ability to use expanders

[iHoller]

On 6 September 2016 at 10:07 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you use unraid they have there own raid thing.

 

didn't know that, but after some googling, its clear that unRAID is smart

[Mikensan]

If you're putting VMs on this box that do more than say serve mail.. you will want to dedicate a partition or entire SSD for VMs. Using the SSDs only as cache just helps write speeds not read. unRaid is a poor choice for VMs in my opinion. I'd either go with Server 20XX (2012/2016) with storage spaces and hyper-V or the classic FreeNAS FreeNAS has vbox currently so if you need a windows virtual box it can handle it.

 

 

[iHoller]

44 minutes ago, Mikensan said:

If you're putting VMs on this box that do more than say serve mail.. you will want to dedicate a partition or entire SSD for VMs. Using the SSDs only as cache just helps write speeds not read. unRaid is a poor choice for VMs in my opinion. I'd either go with Server 20XX (2012/2016) with storage spaces and hyper-V or the classic FreeNAS FreeNAS has vbox currently so if you need a windows virtual box it can handle it.

 

 

My 1th priority was "vSphere" but it is costly