Need a NAS Box

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Carlosinfl

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I was looking to pick up some hardware to create a NAS box here in the office and was looking here for some advice and wondering if you guys had any suggestions? I would be looking to run something like FreeNAS or maybe just Linux for a the NAS O.S. but I don't have any experience building a NAS box. I do know that the only requirement I have is that I need 12 TB's of raw storage space. Any suggestions?

Also would 5400 RPM drives be a bad idea for something like this? Should I avoid any green drives and opt for more performance oriented hardware since this will be used heavily at work?
 
Do you need Windows file sharing, NFS, or iSCSI?

Quick and easy:
SuperMicro case with 800watt redundant PSU
SuperMicro X8SIL-F
4gb RAM
Xeon X3430
8x Hitachi 7k2000 2tb drives
Adaptec 5805Z controller card
DVDROM

This will give you 11.2tb of formatted RAID 6 storage and the hardware is good for Windows, Linux, and probably FreeBSD.
 
Thank you very much. Do you mind telling me more info about that case. I show it supports 4 3. drives however you listed 8. Am I missing something? Is there something that can be done with the expansion slots?
 
I've used that motherboard, processor, hard drives and case. All good recommendations. The case is a little noisy iirc, but not as loud as a normal rack mount. Heavy. Consider ECC ram with the Xeon, and check the tested memory list for the mobo.
 
FreeNas is a very versatile and powerful NAS software. Also how many active users do you plan to use?
 
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