Advise on selected parts for freenas server

[anoopbhopal]

Hey folks,

I am planning to put together a server that will run freenas and was looking for some pointers on my chosen parts. I live in a large household with a multitude of devices both wired and wireless.

My parts list so far is

Motherboard - Supermicro X10SL7-F Xeon Socket 1150
CPU - I have a 1150 i3 4340 spare that supports ECC. Will this work?
RAM - Crucial ECC Unbuffered DDR3 8 GB 1600 MHz UDIMM Server RAM
PSU - 300W be quiet! TFX Power 2, 80PLUS GOLD
HDD - Western Digital 3TB Red WD30EFRX

This server will mostly be used for movies, music, photos, files, backups etc.

Am I on the right track? Are there any other alternatives to the listed parts that are cheaper, more suited to the task etc?

Thanks for your help folks

 

[cdabc123]

here is another option it dosnt use the i3 but might be a bit cheaper overall. xeon x5667 -40$. dell t3500 mobo -40. then you could buy 3 cheap stick of ddr3 normal or ddr3 ecc unbuffered.

 

[martinch]

Looks absolutely fine to me. As long as the CPU is on the motherboard's compatibility list, there shouldn't be a problem (said CPU does support ECC RAM, and I seriously wouldn't fit non-ECC RAM if you're using ZFS).

 

[anoopbhopal]

Thanks for your response, Is the Mb old now. I can only find used ones.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-XPDFK-Precision-T3500-Workstation-Motherboard-/161865056291?hash=item25afe8c023:g:qn8AAOSwhcJWJ5kO

and Cpu

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Intel-Xeon-X5667-3-06Ghz-quad-core-processor-12Mb-cache-HP-part-614533-001-/361240768587?hash=item541ba0b04b:g:NJ8AAOSwPhdVAvIm

Are these the parts your refering to?

Thanks

 

[anoopbhopal]

I should have mentioned I'm in the Uk

 

[anoopbhopal]

Asrock Intergrated CPU Q1900-ITX, I've read some folks are using this board in server build. Some using it with freenas also, however it does not support ecc memory.

For freenas it seems using Zfs file system and ecc memory is good practice. How important is using zfs file system with ecc memory in a home enviroment considering I have other backup solution and not to worried about hdd failure?

Thanks

 

[cdabc123]

Thanks for your response, Is the Mb old now. I can only find used ones.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-XPDFK-Precision-T3500-Workstation-Motherboard-/161865056291?hash=item25afe8c023:g:qn8AAOSwhcJWJ5kO

and Cpu

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Intel-Xeon-X5667-3-06Ghz-quad-core-processor-12Mb-cache-HP-part-614533-001-/361240768587?hash=item541ba0b04b:g:NJ8AAOSwPhdVAvIm

Are these the parts your refering to?

Thanks

yes but those are a bit more expensive over their. with those prices you should stick with the equipment you have already.

 

[martinch]

For freenas it seems using Zfs file system and ecc memory is good practice. How important is using zfs file system with ecc memory in a home enviroment considering I have other backup solution and not to worried about hdd failure?

In a nutshell, ZFS computes hashes/parity of every block written to disk, and when reading data from disk, it recomputes the hash - if the two don't match, it assumes the computed version is correct, which can lead to silent corruption of data. Not using ECC RAM is not recommended (there's big warnings on the FreeNAS site, and they won't answer "my data is b0rked" questions from people who've not used ECC RAM.

 

[anoopbhopal]

Thanks for your reply's guys. I understand the risks of not using ecc ram. There is a £100 difference in price between the two motheboards. The supermicro that supports ecc and the asrock intergrated CPU Q1900-ITX that doesnt support ecc.

This server is simply going to serve up movies, music, documents that are already backed up. If data gets corrupted or ram goes bad then I just swap out and deal with the minor inconvenience of copying back over to the server. I say minor because its not going to be Terabytes of delicate data, just some media files.

For my simple home needs, Would you guys recommend spending extra and buying server grade hardware, or buy the asrock mini itx with cpu included?

Hell I dont even need to use Freenas. Some people favor Ubuntu server with simple hardware.

Any thoughts?

Thanks