I only see 4 SATA ports.
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Anyone make a nic/sata Combo card?
They really should, but nope.
You’re gonna have to either go bigger board or stick with gigabit.
FFS Asrock has a Micro ATX of the same board and will have to go bigger on the case wich I really don’t want to do.
Are you doing actual raid 6 or raidz2?
Whatever the ZFS equivalent of RAID6 is.
You’ll probably find this useful then
You’re paying a fortune for WD reds, but if you want the best that’s pretty much it. I would suggest shucking WD blues from USB3 enclosures, you can save an insane amount of money doing that. 10TB WD externals cost like $159 last week.
Not an option will need them validated for raid will have some professional work on there.
They’re not blues as @Ruffalo stated
but I did some myself and they will work just as well as the reds for your use case, only downside is warranty is questionable.
WD Reds are alright, though 5400RPM hurts. HGST makes some decent NAS and Enterprise grade drives for about the same price as well and have a good track record for failrate:
HGST Ultrastar 4TB Enterprise Drive for under $100 new
Also, that motherboard you selected only has 4 SATA ports. You’d need to populate the PCIe slot with an addin card to give more ports
You can buy so many more drives, with higher capacity, that who cares about fail rates? Just get a couple extras and put them on the shelf, then if a drive fails replace it. I wouldn’t recommend that for the enterprise of course, but nobody should build their own NAS for the enterprise anyway. For a small office type environment it’s totally appropriate.
OK, two things:
- The APUs (2200G, 2400G and so on) can’t utilize ECC. They can run it but without error correction.
- Registered memory won’t work at all.
So basically back to square one.
Fuck it not buying anything wife can find her own hosting solution I don’t care anymore just close the thread.
tbh just get a synology bro.
Have one and it is dying and hate it.
rolling your own freenas solution can be its own pain in the ass. if you dont like synology, then go qnap. hell, just install whatever linux distro you want and keep good backups.
I think people needlessly complicate their storage solution because others recommend overkill.
I’m pretty sure they support ECC.
And looking around there it may be a hit or miss thing, as there are people who’ve said they got it to work.
You can close the thread TBI it is a moot point.
Closed at OP’s request.