So since some weeks, I was thinking about the possibilities of a NAS at home.
It would be usefull to have a central place in the network to store all data, and be able to connect to it from any kind of device (Windows computer, linux box, Android,...).
After a lot of research about ZFS (dutch: Tweakers.Net ZFS topic start ), hardware in general and FreeNAS, I ordered the following computerparts:
- Motherboard: Supermicro X9SAE-V
- CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230V2 - 3.3 GHz
- RAM: 4x Kingstom ValueRAM DDR3 ECC 8GB
- Powersupply: Corsair CS450M 450 Watt
- Host bus adapter: IBM ServeRAID M1015 RAID controller (this won't be used for the RAID functionality, a blogpost will be dedicated to this in the future)
- Hard Disk Drives: 7x WD Red WD40EFRX - 4TB (6 disks will be initally used to put into the NAS, 1 is spare in case a disk needs to be replaced)
- Case: Ri-vier 4U 24bay SAS/SATA storage chassis - RVS4-06A
With this configuration, I expect the NAS to have no problem storing all my data (movies, music, backups of running systems,...) and to have the data streamed around the house. It is also very important to me to have the data being stored on top of some kind of disk redundancy (ZFS).
So be sure to keep an eye on this blog, interesting things might be shown here for those of you who also want to build a NAS but don't have the 1st experience.
I don't have any experience at all about FreeNAS or ZFS in general, but i'll try to share all my experiences (the positive as well as the negative ;-) ) out there via this blog.
