Hi Guys
I am planning a new build soon, the plan is for a high powered, upgradeable home server to act as a NAS and mediahub for the house.
Stuff I have:
Stuff I plan to get:
I realise the memory is probably huge overkill but is cheap.
I need a suggestion for a low power 1155 CPU for this server, my initial thoughts was to go with a quad but I feel that it may be overkill, maybe a Intel Pentium G620?
one of the coolers i have could potentially be ran passive with a low power cpu. this would be ideal as the only noise coming from the unit would be the HDDs
I have a few storage drives already so may as well use them, what drives should I be looking at for additional storage here? are WD Greens still the best idea?
the big question i have is what operating system should i run.
This is where i really have no knowledge
Initial thoughts were to install free nas? what are the pros and cons of this?
I also have copies of 64bit XPpro/Vista ultimate/7 ultimate and windows 8
would an MS operating system offer me more customisation than freenas?
any other suggestions in this area would be very welcome.
I am planning a new build soon, the plan is for a high powered, upgradeable home server to act as a NAS and mediahub for the house.
Stuff I have:
- Bitfenix Prodigy
- Corsair 60GB SSD
- 8GB or 16GB DDR3
- Gigabyte Z77N-WIFI
- Choice of two CPU coolers
- 1TB Samsung F3
- 2TB ST2000DM001
Stuff I plan to get:
- Seasonic X-Series 460w FANLESS
- A CPU
- More HDDs
I realise the memory is probably huge overkill but is cheap.
I need a suggestion for a low power 1155 CPU for this server, my initial thoughts was to go with a quad but I feel that it may be overkill, maybe a Intel Pentium G620?
one of the coolers i have could potentially be ran passive with a low power cpu. this would be ideal as the only noise coming from the unit would be the HDDs
I have a few storage drives already so may as well use them, what drives should I be looking at for additional storage here? are WD Greens still the best idea?
the big question i have is what operating system should i run.
This is where i really have no knowledge
Initial thoughts were to install free nas? what are the pros and cons of this?
I also have copies of 64bit XPpro/Vista ultimate/7 ultimate and windows 8
would an MS operating system offer me more customisation than freenas?
any other suggestions in this area would be very welcome.