File Server OS ?

Snow-Munki

Snow-Munki

Snow-Munki

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Hi,

Hopefully if all goes well, I'll have all my hardware for my new replacement File Server. Currently using WHS but it's showing it's age and runs really slow.

Spec is:

Motherboard - Asus P8H77-I Intel H77 (Socket 1155)
CPU - Intel G620
Memory - Corsair LP Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 1600MHz
HDD - 3TB
HDD 4 * 2TB
PSU - Corsair CMPSU-430CXV2UK Builder Series CX430V2
Case - Lian Li PC-Q25B

I was going to go for UNRaid, but not so sure now as it seems fairly complicated.

Would like for it to run addons like:

Plex
Sabnzb
Sickbeard
Servio

Thanks,
 
Get ECC RAM not Non-ECC to ensure data integrity

Get ESXi

Install Open Indiana as a VM and WHS as media server/Server 2008.

Guides here: www.sohon.co.uk
 
I wouldn't pay extra for ECC memory in a home server. If it crashes you can reboot it, no money or reputation lost.

My home server has been up for over a year and its not got ECC memory.
 
thanks, reason i'm swaying away from OS's like freenas is from what I understand, you have to have all the disks setup from the beginning.

I'll only have 3TB to start with whilst I slowly migrate my old 2TB drives a week or two at a time.
 
I've spent the last couple hours setting up FreeBSD for much this purpose. The main selling point was zfs, an anti-corruption file system.

That's got me as far as OS installed, rsync, samba and ssh working, drives set up and mirrored. In the near future mini-dlna should be running at which point I'm just about done.

I've avoided FreeNAS on the grounds that I'd rather specialise a generic OS than trust in the choices someone else has made. FreeBSD looks pretty alien but no problems getting it to do anything yet. I don't think I'd recommend it as such- it's going to do the job ridiculously well, but after a longer set-up time than something like Ubuntu.
 
Stolly said:
I wouldn't pay extra for ECC memory in a home server. If it crashes you can reboot it, no money or reputation lost.

My home server has been up for over a year and its not got ECC memory.
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If you don't understand the advice, don't comment.

ZFS utilises write on cache, so the data is written to memory first and then to the hard disk (youtube ZFS to see hard drive activity lights). If a bit flip occurs - which is quite likely on a machine that's on 24/7 with 4 sticks of RAM - you can harm data integrity.


JonJ678 said:
I've spent the last couple hours setting up FreeBSD for much this purpose. The main selling point was zfs, an anti-corruption file system.

That's got me as far as OS installed, rsync, samba and ssh working, drives set up and mirrored. In the near future mini-dlna should be running at which point I'm just about done.

I've avoided FreeNAS on the grounds that I'd rather specialise a generic OS than trust in the choices someone else has made. FreeBSD looks pretty alien but no problems getting it to do anything yet. I don't think I'd recommend it as such- it's going to do the job ridiculously well, but after a longer set-up time than something like Ubuntu.
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ZFS on Open Indiana (Solaris) is a piece of pee to setup, some guy made a complete web interface for it (just an fyi).
 
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