[olug] DIY NAS/HTPC

[Noel Leistad]

On 01/09/2013 08:49 AM, Sheldon, Roger W wrote:
> Don't think I head of the WD red series but the Black series got great reviews. Yeh so sounds like Freenas is the way to go and ZFS is a factor in decision for me. For the placement of the drives it's gonna make some buzz 4sure and I recommended someplace else other than living room. The GD08 case holds eight 3.5 HDD's & two 2.5 SSD's and two 5.25 bays. For cooling it comes with 3x120's I believe and room for one more but u gotta buy the fan. To me sounds like the case to have for NAS/HTPC for $150ish.
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> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Botts
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 6:19 PM
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> I'd like to recommend the WD red series of drives. I think Amazon still has them on some kind of sale.
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> On Jan 8, 2013 5:17 PM, "Obi-Wan" <obiwan at jedi.com<mailto:obiwan at jedi.com>> wrote:
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>>> -          Energy
>>> -          Heat
>>> -          # disks (sata III no SAS) minimum 5 disks
>>> -          Noise
>> Proper cooling for 5+ spinning disks will not be quiet.  I'd highly
>> recommend separating the storage from the head unit.  Get a nice,
>> small, pretty, quiet head unit for the living room, and put the big,
>> loud, ugly NAS in the basement with a hard-wired GigE connection to
>> the head unit.
>> For drives, I recommend the Western Digital Caviar Black drives.
>> They're more expensive, but they have a 5 yr warranty, and they get
>> the best reviews on NewEgg.  I've used both Seagate's & WD's customer
>> support for warranty returns in the last year.  Seagate was a nightmare.
>> WD was a dream.  I'm not gonna touch Seagate again for a few years
>> because of that experience.
>>> -          NAS software (no WHS)
>> Freenas will get you ZFS, if it matterns.  I've not used any of the
>> dedicated NAS software myself.
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Built FreeNAS box, LianLi PC-Q25 case, Intel i3, 16G RAM, 5 of the
WD-RED 2T drives.

Really pretty quiet, all noise that I can discern is fan noise (totaling
4, 2 case, 1 CPU, 1 PS) . The Red drives are REALLY quiet and run
amazingly cool. Like the case even w/ the price... Almost think it's
quieter than the Atom MythFE I have at home by my TV.

FreeNAS I'm running is 8.3.0, so there are some plugins for dlna, etc.
Not installed so no help there. 10T of disk ended up being 7.1T of zfs
w/ single drive redundancy...

Works so well at work, I'd like to have another at home..... 

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