Aychamo BanBan
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Hi all,
I'm hoping for some help building a media storage server. I'm not the biggest tech guy any more, and I've basically lost track of what speed processors are needed to accomplish what these days. And I have no idea how to "size" a power supply to know if things will be adequately powered or not.
Requirements:
- 8-10+ Tb, via 4-5 drives
- RAID5
- Gigabit ethernet (dual with LAG would be great)
- Easily setup shares to OS X (ie once they are setup, to just work..)
- Rock solid, no hassles
Would be great if possible:
- Rack mounted, or at least a tower that is less than 19" tall so I could lay it on its side
- "hot swap" would be great, but not necessary
I'm guessing this would run FreeNAS or something. I think that's what it is. Whatever it is that uses xfs, because doesn't that help prevent bit rot? I tried pricing something similar out to this once, but the CPU on the all-in-one board was supposedly a bit slow so it made file transfers painful. Does anyone have a "go to" setup for something like this?
Thank you very much.
I'm hoping for some help building a media storage server. I'm not the biggest tech guy any more, and I've basically lost track of what speed processors are needed to accomplish what these days. And I have no idea how to "size" a power supply to know if things will be adequately powered or not.
Requirements:
- 8-10+ Tb, via 4-5 drives
- RAID5
- Gigabit ethernet (dual with LAG would be great)
- Easily setup shares to OS X (ie once they are setup, to just work..)
- Rock solid, no hassles
Would be great if possible:
- Rack mounted, or at least a tower that is less than 19" tall so I could lay it on its side
- "hot swap" would be great, but not necessary
I'm guessing this would run FreeNAS or something. I think that's what it is. Whatever it is that uses xfs, because doesn't that help prevent bit rot? I tried pricing something similar out to this once, but the CPU on the all-in-one board was supposedly a bit slow so it made file transfers painful. Does anyone have a "go to" setup for something like this?
Thank you very much.