HP Gen7 Proliant microserver

[Snake3y3s]

Good day all

I am very new to setting up a NAS from scratch... running and upholding one that has been built is no issue to me though.

 

I got myself a second hand HP proliant microserver (gen7) and i have a few questions...

 

First off, the onboard NIC is dead so it came with an expansion NIC (a TP-link TG-3468). The motherboard of the microserver has a PCIEX1 and a PCIEX16 slot on it, will it make any difference to which slot to put it in?

 

Also, I am going to be putting in 4 drives and a SSD for cache or OS (the OS can also go on a 4GB usb Drive that can be pluged in onboard that i got with the device.) possibly go for 6 drives. (which is possible with a bit of customization)

Question is... should i go with freeNAS running a ZFS system (the original owner was running freenas on it with a raid setup) or should i go with Xpenology (some people said I should give it a go.)

 

any and all help is appreciated

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Snake3y3s said:

will it make any difference to which slot to put it in?

No difference

 

Id go free nas, but depends on what your using it for. A SSD cache won't makea  difference.