Personal computing discussed
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vargis14 wrote:Why on earth would you want to overclock your HTPC? The primary goals for building an HTPC is 1) Cool, so you don't have to work as hard to make it 2) quiet. If you're transcoding, I suppose you could make that argument, but I would expect you to transcode recorded content in a batch process where time isn't of the essence.I would also get the k model cpu for the HTPC just in case you want to OC it for some reason.
CampinCarl wrote:Plan of attack: Use an old 80GB SATA150 drive to install FreeNAS on, and build up the 2TB drives into a RAID-5 array as storage. I have a 1TB Caviar Green drive I will use to backup the backup of the really, really important stuff.
vandy wrote:For your file server, I recommend running NAS4FREE. It was originally called FREENAS but they sold the name. From the info from what I gathered, it seems NAS4FREE is the better choice. I run it on my NAS for backups and archival purposes and it is great. I also recommend running ZFS RAIDZ1 (optional on NAS4FREE) so you can get better performance, protect yourself from silent corruption and like RAID 5, RAIDZ1 can sustain a 1 drive failure. With NAS4FREE you can opt to install the the package on flash media connected via USB so you can free up a SATA port.
dextrous wrote:CampinCarl wrote:Plan of attack: Use an old 80GB SATA150 drive to install FreeNAS on, and build up the 2TB drives into a RAID-5 array as storage. I have a 1TB Caviar Green drive I will use to backup the backup of the really, really important stuff.
FreeNAS uses ZFS these days. To get the benefits of ZFS, you don't want to put your drives in a RAID array of any kind. ZFS wants to see a bunch of RAW drives and manage them itself.
CampinCarl wrote:Well helloooooooooo there.
So I'm in the midst of coming up with two separate builds.
The first build will be a file server, which will be for backups and mass-media storage, for which I already have a case to use (Antec NSK-4400) and I already have 3 2TB drives for it as well (picked up on sale a few weeks ago). At this point, I plan on using FreeNAS as the OS, but I'm also asking for suggestions for this piece of the system! I may at some point in the future want to use it to run some VM servers on for random tasks. I'd like to keep the cost for this system around $200. For this build, so far I have come up with:
Plan of attack: Use an old 80GB SATA150 drive to install FreeNAS on, and build up the 2TB drives into a RAID-5 array as storage. I have a 1TB Caviar Green drive I will use to backup the backup of the really, really important stuff.
dextrous wrote:NAS4Free is just a branch from the 7.0 line of FreeNAS. I'm surprised it uses ZFS now because that was the main reason for the split from what I understand. There are a handful of linux/bsd based NAS systems out there - FreeNAS, NAS4Free, Nexenta, OpenFiler, and several others. It might be a good idea to research them once you determine what your requirements are.
CampinCarl wrote:hmm. Are you sure? I could have sworn I read that FreeNAS supported NTFS and software/hardware RAID0/1/5/10? If it doesn't that's fine; running ZFS and using RAID-Z isn't really a problem for me. It'd roughly be the same thing.