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So, we are going to be building another NAS for someone and decided to put this up for anyone interested. Very early stages at the moment, hardware hasn't been finalised, apart from the disks which arrived today.
However, we do know the following:
Mini ITX
Intel Chipset/CPU
ECC Memory
4TB WD Red's in RAIDZ1
FreeNAS for the OS
You will probably be asking, why did we only go 4TB? Answer is in this situation, it would be overkill for the client. However we are going to have space to expand.
Your also asking, why did I buy 4 x 1TB when I could have went for 3 x 2TB for similar price? The answer in this situation is for redundancy, by having a few more drives we can get better redundancy and have more drives for parity.
The hardware is going to be along the lines of:
Fractal Design Node 304
16GB of ECC Memory
Corsair CX430M (Or similar, don't get hung up on this)
with either
ASRock Rack C2750D4I with the 8-core Avoton chip
Or
ASRock Rack E3C226D2I/E3C224D2I
with: Pentium G3258
or: I3 4160 3.6Ghz
However, there is the possibility that unfortunately they may want to re-use an older HP microserver which has dual core Celeron.
That's all for now, I'm about to start burning in these drives with some performance tests to make sure they are suitable for production environment.
Any questions, queries or suggestions, do let me know!