• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

First time NAS/SERVER for video storage

N

note235

Supreme [H]ardness
Joined
May 23, 2005
Messages
5,055
First time building a nas/file server for my video storage (I do video production).

CPU: AMD A8 5600k $90
MOBO: ASUS F2A85-M $90
RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 16GB $100
PSU: CORSAIR CX430M $50
CASE: Fractal Design R4 $100
=$410 without raid card or HDD

I'm thinking of going 6x 3TB WD RED = $780 in raid 5 or 6 or ZFS
what do you guys thinking?

I'm not sure if i should put in a dedicated raid card or go ZFS?
I would like something that reads/writes 200MBps minimum through SATA or USB3
 
Unless you are using 10gbit networking, and it didn't sound like it. You will be limited to 100MBps speeds.
 
SSD via usb3 or SATA not necessarily from comp to comp
i guess if i did need comp to comp what would be fastest?

I don't see that often since I'll put my original footage as archives straight off the SSD
 
Use freenas as your OS and for the HDDs use Raidz which is part of the zfs file system. Kind of like a raid 5 but more robust.
 
I'm thinking of going 6x 3TB WD RED = $780 in raid 5 or 6 or ZFS
what do you guys thinking?
Click to expand...

more info required to give an accurate answer. How much space do you require?

with raid/z 5 you will lose 1 disk to parity. so 5x 3TB=15TB RAW (formatted)

with raid/z 6 you will lose 2 disk to parity so 4x 3TB=12TB RAW(formatted)
 
note235 said:
I'm not sure if i should put in a dedicated raid card or go ZFS?
Click to expand...

My two cents here. If you want ZFS and RAID-Z (or Z2) then there's no reason to get a RAID card. Given there's 7 SATA ports on the board you selected you should be fine.

far as ease of setup and use goes: i'll second the FreeNAS suggestion.
 
ECC memory is recommended for FreeNAS and many asus boards support it out of the box. Worth the extra few bucks and research, in my opinion, even for home storage, if it doesn't cost much more.
 
patrickdk said:
Unless you are using 10gbit networking, and it didn't sound like it. You will be limited to 100MBps speeds.
Click to expand...

Unless he does DAS to his main workstation, or teams/aggregates Ethernet connnections on to a switch that supports such (x1 Intel NICs are good for this, and the Netgear Entry Managed Gig switches are decent for link aggregation).
 
ok im almost ready to build and was wondering: do I / should I get a raid card?

i just need this box to be a giant storage drive that can transfer at certain minimum speeds + and has reliability
 
M1015 flashed in IT firmware - makes it a JBOD card with Sas/Sata expander support is my vote.
 
note235 said:
ok im almost ready to build and was wondering: do I / should I get a raid card?

i just need this box to be a giant storage drive that can transfer at certain minimum speeds + and has reliability
Click to expand...

I vote no for a home environment. If a RAID card dies you need either the exact same one or one very similar: good luck there if it's been a few years. If a motherboard dies with soft RAID all you need is another system that'll boot the same OS and enough SATA ports.
 
FnordMan said:
I vote no for a home environment. If a RAID card dies you need either the exact same one or one very similar: good luck there if it's been a few years. If a motherboard dies with soft RAID all you need is another system that'll boot the same OS and enough SATA ports.
Click to expand...

Did you read my post? "IT" firmware eliminates the RAID functionality, making it an HBA presenting the drives straight through to the operating system. You could take those drives and plug them into any sata port (even the motherboard) on any machine running the O/S or an O/S capable of reading the filesystem on the drive(s), so long as the OS has drivers for that sata port. The 2 ports are capable of 1,200MB/sec of transfer each or 2,400MB/second in SAS3/SATA3. You can get expanders that take both ports, making it 4,800MB/second (8 channels) in SAS3/SATA3.

If you want speed, RAID0, protection, RAID1, both, RAID10 - 0 and 10 present high sequential I/O speeds. All modern OSs offer these in software, so no specific controller needed thus no specific problems if the exact card can't be found again to replace it. These RAID levels are not very CPU intensive at all, since there is not any parity calculation being done.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top