Since I've just added a new HDD to my system, the integrity of my data is becoming more obvious.
I am hoping to build a freenas box that can double as a home server for things like email, webhosting, encoding, fileserver etc. Sadly I am unsure on what is available for a solution like this.
Can someone help me come up with the parts for this? There is not budget, only a target of 9TB of usable storage.
Budget?
Whatever it costs to get 9TB of redundant usable storage, don't need insane redundancy. 1 Disk parity should be good.
Freenas Mini XL
Buy 4 4Tb hard drives of your choice and setup in Raidz1.
Enough horsepower for running vms In either iohyve under Freenas 9.10 or Release for Freenas 10 is due in a month or so. With Freenas 10 you will access to VNC on web panel and also Docker.
Also great support form the makers of Freenas since you bought their rig.
Freenas Mini XL would be quiet and give you room for upgrade later on for more storage.
Alas they seem to not be directly available in Australia (something I should've mentioned above)
Can you get dell products?
Depends on the product sadly. I was thinking about building my own because there's usually a large markup for most products.
It's cheaper to just put the drives in your computer. If you have Windows 10 you can use Storage Spaces.
The home server thing is totally overblown.
Get a Xeon E3-1225v3 processor, at least 16gb Ecc RAM.
Compatible motherboard for Xeon and ecc ram.
4 4 TB disk of whichever company you like. I have a good luck out of Seagate.
Get a case with 3 to 4 5.25 external slots. So down the road you can buy a hotswap cage. Get a 500w gold plus certified power supply. I just got an EVGA one for around 35 bucks.
You gon' need bout a GB of ram per TB effective storage if you're using ZFS, which you should be for a storage server, so keep that in mind.
This is what I got, but I added a SSD for any operations that might require faster storage. I'm thinking this might be an encoding or compilation workstation as well.
So I can upload a video/source code quickly and have it handled by the nas.
Looks good to me hope it works well for you.
Get another cheap 64gb ssd for boot os drive.
I don't see any issues with this build at all, and ingestion is a pretty cool use for one of these
Haven't seen anything that tops this for a simple system. Has I have the non Xeon version. See how much CPU power you really need.
This comes with 4 drive bays, 5 sata connections, internal usb and microsd, and it is ECC RAM protected.
@EU: less than 200 euros. https://www.amazon.de/HP-ProLiant-MicroServer-G1610T-SATA-Server/dp/B013UBCHVU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484746557&sr=8-1&keywords=microserver+gen8
This with Linux or Freenas makes an excellent home server. I run ZFS on mine. Currently I have 1 SSD and 2 3TB drives in it. Excellent build quality and very compact, cheaper than comparable commercial NAS solutions.
Dell T20 is way better and cheaper.
Ah yes, that was a possibility I considered as well - however I went for the sub - 200€ (non-Xeon) option and that one was not available here.
By all means: check for actions and promotions.
One day Amazon.com.au will have other products and not just books.
Till then... I cannot buy things of Amazon
Dear Lord, I'm so sorry this is the case for you folks
Yes lately I have not heard of anything that makes me want to move there.
Personally, my NAS is run by an HP Z400, inside of a NZXT 210 (for lots of HDD space), with a PSU mod, allowing me to use any PSU. It also has 9GB ECC RAM, however, with Windows Server 2012, that isn't enough, and plan to soon upgrade to 16GB.
If you want a NAS, please don't buy some crap pre-built one, with no expandability... They tend to be so expensive, have such crap hardware, and are so limited on what you can do with it.