freeNas build

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(!Be advised, this post contains bad English!)

Hello,

I'm going too build myself a freeNas, and  I need advice on what kind of hardware I should run.

Im going too throw some money at this since I am looking for a safe place too store my family doc,pics,vids and movie collection. And some music

I currently have a windows home-server running, but Its getting outdated and starting to become unstable (so I will not be reusing any of the hardware from it), I have also noticed that some of my data are getting corrupt and unusable, and I don't want too loose my data. So I have decided to get a new setup running freeNas. 

Some of my requirements for the new setup will be, at least 12TB  of usable storage-space (I currently have 9,2tb of data and need some room too grow). Also want too use the snapshot/shadow-copy function. So the ZFS filesystem is what I`m going too be using. I have some ideas off what kind of hardware I need, but I don't want too use allot of money, and then figure out I got it overlooked something.</p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>My choices:</p><p>*5, WD Red 4TB NAS Harddrive`s

SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3.0), 64MB, 3.5", 24x7 reliability, IntelliPower, 

*2 Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Tactical 16GB, 
16GB kit (8GBx2),1600MHz, 1.5V, CL8-8-8-24 (for a total of 32GB)


*SanDisk Cruzer® Fit 8GB
USB2.0 (For FreeNas-install)


*ASUS H87M-PLUS, Socket-1150
m-ATX, H87, DDR3, 2xPCIe-x16, CFX, VGA, DVI, HDMI, Haswell


*Intel Core i3-4330
Socket-LGA1150, Dual Core, 3.5GHz, 4MB, 54W, HD4600, Boxed w/fan, Haswell


*Fractal Design ARC Mini R2 Sort
Fans: 1x 120mm Front, 120mm rear, mATX, mITX 

*Corsair CS 550M, 550W PSU
ATX 12V v2.4, 80 Plus Gold, Modular, 2x 6+2pin PCIe, 5x SATA, 4x Molex, 1x FD


*Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB 
Basic KIT, 540/410MB/s read/write, Samsung MEX controller. (cache disk)

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So is this a reasonable setup? not powerful enough? too much? what do you think guys and/or girls?,- I would really appreciate any feedback I can get. 

 

 

 

 

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I've been looking at using the Avoton myself to replace a A-8 3870k (got it for free)  Haven't decided on it yet.  However, I know for a NAS a ton of CPU isn't really needed.

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Let me know how it goes with that Avoton if you switch over to it.

I read up a bit more on hardware requirements on the freenas homepage, and found that my build is pretty close to the "sweet spot" for my usage scenario. Only thing i really regret is not too have gone for ECC memory(with motherboard and cpu too support this). But, It would have pushed my budget too far..

Im getting the parts in a day or two, cant wait too get it running....  

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Without ECC, you will never get the full features of ZFS, which allows redundancy.