Recent content by Beezie

the pre-build`t boxes will do just as good as one you build yourself if it can hold the amount of storage space you are looking for. the bonus about building yourself are that you can pick parts and/or choose the software you want

IPMI is a remote interface to controll power settings on the system, can log in remotely and power on/off or restart it. it can be a handy tool for some 100w? well it may be but i would not go for anything smaller then 230W power supply. the hardrives may be drawing less power when in use...

i got the the Supermicro X7SPA-HF Single Intel Atom D525, IPMI in my 1u firewall and it is really a good motherboard. it got one full size 16x PCI-e lane that is running on x4. it also good 2gb ethernet connections and IPMI if you are interested in that. i don`t have much experience on AMD but...

ok nice, its always good to check the product number on the ram stick and the size of the ram sticks and how many slots ocupied, some Supermicro board have 6ram slots but only 4 are usable for non buffered ram and so fourth

If you are going for a supermicro Motherboard you need to be careful with what ram you buy. Supermicro boards are so picky on ram its silly

After a few day`s of thinking i have decided that 16GB ram will do just fine. I`m going to stick with FreeNas and the parts as it looks now and start building it after new-year and keep a close eye on the hardrive prices the next few month`s. may just start with the smaller storage pool for...

I have other servers to handle other task`s this will only be a storage box. you are abselutly right about the second processor, was just thinking about t he mem slots and didn`t take FreeNas into account. will have a closer look at the proccesor options thanks george

Any toughts about going 2 socket Motherboard vs the one socket i have now?

Now, that`s interesting... i have been googling and cheching those controllers for weeks but those posts on the FreeNas forum have slipped it seems,:o i was fearly sure that card would not go well with FeeNas. it however need to be flashed to work, maby that`s why i mistook it for not being...

No, the prices are three times higher then what it used to be. Won`t be buying a large amount of drives before the price drops a bit:cool:

Hi everyone I have been planing to build a large NAS for almost a year now and have come so far in the research and budget wise that it makes sence to make a final thread. The plan are to get a platform up were i can store my media/files/music and at the same time my ever growing VM ESXi5...