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So if my budget is $500, can I build a decent enough machine that can run ZFS and share via NFS (instead of SAMBA)? This is all I need.
I would need to focus on mobo/cpu, RAM, NIC, and HDDs. I assume onboard video would suffice.
2TB is the minimum available storage capacity I need at this time.
RAID50 and 60 aren't for redundancy or safety either, they're for speed.
When determining your need for uptime or robustness of a disk subsystem to determine to RAID level needed, you only look at the minimum amount of drives that can fail before your RAID goes offline, and in this regard, RAID50 and 60 adds nothing compared to their unnested brethren.
@holzmann: There is no need to build a "file server" for your requirements. Just buy a WD My Book, that should be more than enough to fit your needs. Or just buy 2 hard drives and put them on your current computer and use Windows backup to backup from hdd A to hdd B, simple enough, or use that raid 1 card you have right now.
The majority of people in this forum build systems with linux/hardware raid/expanders/etc for systems that most likely have large number of disks, and just required better redundancy. Of course there are people who build these kind of systems just to learn and nothing else.
There is absolutely no need for you to go down that route at this moment, when keeping everything simple works better for you. If you want to learn about ZFS and what most people do in this forum, I suggest to download VMWare Server or similar virtualization software and play with that, rather than diving into something that could turn complicated all of the sudden and might cause you to lose the data.
Also, the article in Anandtech, that article was an introduction, and nothing more. I found it quite lacking myself and thought it didn't cover enough material or presented better hardware/software. Now their article on virtualization for Anandtech which I believed also had a section about hard drive space (file server) was much better and in depth.
Anyways, it is up to you on what you get, but I believe a simple solution would work better with your current usage.
Yeah, I know, that's why I put the next to my statement. Thanks for the tip though.
Ah, the ever eluding internet sarcasm! One day I might get it right, apologies
I would need to focus on mobo/cpu, RAM, NIC, and HDDs. I assume onboard video would suffice.
2TB is the minimum available storage capacity I need at this time.
I have been thinking about building a nas for quite a while now, and this is one of the lest expensive solutions i have looked at.
motherboard $124.99
ASUS E35M1-I Fusion AMD E-350 APU It has 6 SATA 3 ports so would leave room for expansion. Its not very powerfull but Plenty of power for a small nas. You would have to use software raid with this because the chipset does not support raid.
Hard Drives 3 2tb drives for raidz1 (same as raid 5) $239.97
HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 2tb drives seem to have the best price per gigabyte at the moment and these drives get pretty good reviews.
Ram $63.99
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB
awesome low voltage ram.
total $428.95
if you wanted a case to hold all this here are a couple of options.
this Fractal Design case has 6 3.5 bays and comes with a 300w power supply
or
a lan li Q08 and buy your own powersupply.
this soultion should use very little power at the wall.
But what about ECC RAM/support?
Do any of you all build around that?
Theres nothing wrong with that build, it's just a lot of money for what you're trying to achieve..
Theres nothing wrong with that build, it's just a lot of money for what you're trying to achieve..
The drives are fine.