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ginobee2000

ginobee2000

ginobee2000

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Hi Guys,

I am building a Nas please could you show me how I can assess files on this Nas when I am not in the house after building it whiles it is in use.. This NAS solely for home. And also what sort of software and server motherboard will be best for a Nas project..i am fresh in IT.. I have read more but I need some few ideas..your ideas will be appreciated..
 
Given your lack of experience wouldn’t you be better if buying a dedicated NAS?

You really need to be specifying your requirements. What capacity are you aiming at? What will it be used for?
 
My Nas will be based on 6TB HDD..I have plenty videos and other files getting to 3Tb. Which I want to put them together in one place, that is the NAS .. These files are dispersed on more than one computer devices in my home.. I want to put my interest into building rather than buying one.. Cuz I want to learn more..

Ram will be 32Gb.. As for motherboard.. I have researched that supermicro is good.. But need suggestions on which model to go for.. The main thing is able to assess this NAS when I am not home
 
A Supermicro server board and 32GB or memory for a 6TB NAS that's only serving files seems like massive overkill.

Your 6TB. Is that 6TB in total or a single 6TB drive?

Use a VPN to access your network from outside. This is easier if you have a static WAN IP.

I use unRAID for my NAS. Another popular option is FreeNAS. You need to decide on the software first as that'll inform the hardware choices.

You may be better off with a cloud-based solution.

What's with the double full stops? Very strange!
 
No NAS needs 32GB. Ever. Not even FreeNAS, despite what the neckbeards say.

Just go buy a Synology DS218j or similar. Your knowledge level is limited at best, you're not going to be able to build your own. Suggesting 32GB of RAM for a 6TB NAS shows that lack of knowledge.
 
Lol..I need just twice 6TB for this project.. I am talking about future that is why I said 32gb where may be I may do an upgrade provided I may need moreover I talking in terms of the motherboard able to support up to 32gb
 
But doesn't ZFS use hella amounts of RAM ?

I remember having to up my NAS from 4 to 14Gb RAM when i switched from nas4free to FreeNAS, as it just kept crashing.
I built my latest NAS on XigmaNAS (formaly NAS4Free) with a supermicro board and 16GB ECC RAM.

I don't think you need huge amounts of knowledge to build a NAS really. I managed to fumble my way through my very first build using an old shuttle system and a couple of 3.5" drives, they aren't hugely dissimilar to a computer really.
 
16GB would be sensible, 32GB isn't. To justify 32GB you'd need to be running much larger arrays or be using it as a VM host.

If you choose unRAID rather than one of the ZFS based alternatives you don't need anyway near as much memory.

If you want to build a NAS you choose a software platform and then build a platform to host it. No point building a machine and then finding that the network adapter or storage adapter isn't fully supported.
 
It'll depend on the amount of storage you have. If you look on their website it'll tell you what the minimum/recommended hardware requirements are. There's probably hardware compatibility information there as well.
 
Recommendations for ZFS (in a parity mode) are 1GB ram per 1TB disk space.

Download freenas, xigmanas or openmediavault or UnRaid.
Install it on a VM on your desktop and practice setting it up and how you can access it.
To get to it from outside, you need a VPN, which is not the primary function of a NAS.

You may be better off just putting the files you want to access from the internet on the cloud rather than worrying about VPN security, upload bandwidth, patching, attack protection etc.

Nothing wrong with supermicro, but tbh any bog standard intel based server with a recent cpu and a good amount of drive bays will be sufficient.
32GB of ram for a single user NAS is throwing money down the drain.
 
Oh ok.. So zfs is like ntfs file system on windows but works differently right.. So how can one use zfs.. Must I install zfs if I want to use it.. Or it comes with another kind of OS platform..
 
If you use Freenas you'll be using ZFS (that's partially why the memory requirements are so high).

Have you read the information available on the Freenas and/or Unraid sites? (BTW Unraid doesn't use ZFS).

There's loads of content out there that'll cover all this basic stuff if you search.
 
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