I'm gonna put together a NAS when I get my taxes back in a few weeks hoping that some of the old hardware I had lying around would work. Unfortunately, the P4 dual-core and LGA 1155 motherboard it was attached to failed to post so I tossed 'em. Worked backwards to an old Socket 939 and Athlon 2500XP that I had lying around and it required an AGP video card to run so I tossed those, too. 3rd in line is an old Socket 478 P4 1.6. Boots and posts fine but just would not install FreeNAS to a flash drive or to a HDD. It just kept getting stuck with unrecoverable sectors or some crap like that during the install. So I tossed that one, too.
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Wanting to try out FreeNAS, I disconnected all the HDDs from my tower and installed FreeNAS to a flash drive there with an old IDE drive I still had lying around. It was much easier than I expected and worked fine across my network with the laptops in my household so I was gung-ho till I discovered that it doesn't support RAID 5. As a media storage for BR and DVD rips I really want to have RAID 5, but full backup is just not necessary where I can always rerip in the future if rebuilding an array fails. I did a little reading and apparently zfs raidz1 is roughly equivalent.
Question 1:
What is the difference between ZFS raidz1 and RAID 5?
Question 2:
Intel Celeron G530 Sandy Bridge 2.4GHz LGA 1155 vs. AMD A4-5300 Trinity 3.4GHz FM2
Of these two 65W CPUs is the Intel worth $14 more in a NAS setting?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116409
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819113283
Question 3:
If I use a motherboard that supports RAID 5 (yes I know it isn't true hardware RAID), can I set up the RAID 5 on the motherboard and just import that array into the volume on FreeNAS and not even worry about creating it with FreeNAS?
Question 4:
Looking for 6GB with future expansion possible, so 4x2TB or 3x3TB for a RAID setup?
Question 5:
Is adding drives with FreeNAS or the motherboard RAID 5 as easy as just slapping in another HDD drive or two or is it a long complicated process?
Or finally, maybe someone can talk me into a good 4-bay+ NAS box for $200-$300 that I can throw these HDDs into if my plan just won't work. The reason I lean BYO is so I can add more drives in the future if necessary and I would like to create a 2nd 1TB volume for remote backup. It just seems that as I move beyond 4 bays, the price of a box is gonna be prohibitive.
You can skip to here
Wanting to try out FreeNAS, I disconnected all the HDDs from my tower and installed FreeNAS to a flash drive there with an old IDE drive I still had lying around. It was much easier than I expected and worked fine across my network with the laptops in my household so I was gung-ho till I discovered that it doesn't support RAID 5. As a media storage for BR and DVD rips I really want to have RAID 5, but full backup is just not necessary where I can always rerip in the future if rebuilding an array fails. I did a little reading and apparently zfs raidz1 is roughly equivalent.
Question 1:
What is the difference between ZFS raidz1 and RAID 5?
Question 2:
Intel Celeron G530 Sandy Bridge 2.4GHz LGA 1155 vs. AMD A4-5300 Trinity 3.4GHz FM2
Of these two 65W CPUs is the Intel worth $14 more in a NAS setting?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116409
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819113283
Question 3:
If I use a motherboard that supports RAID 5 (yes I know it isn't true hardware RAID), can I set up the RAID 5 on the motherboard and just import that array into the volume on FreeNAS and not even worry about creating it with FreeNAS?
Question 4:
Looking for 6GB with future expansion possible, so 4x2TB or 3x3TB for a RAID setup?
Question 5:
Is adding drives with FreeNAS or the motherboard RAID 5 as easy as just slapping in another HDD drive or two or is it a long complicated process?
Or finally, maybe someone can talk me into a good 4-bay+ NAS box for $200-$300 that I can throw these HDDs into if my plan just won't work. The reason I lean BYO is so I can add more drives in the future if necessary and I would like to create a 2nd 1TB volume for remote backup. It just seems that as I move beyond 4 bays, the price of a box is gonna be prohibitive.