Hello everyone,
I wanted to get some ideas from the crowd about moving my current computer over to be an in house NAS setup. I have been bouncing back and forth between investing in a workstation motherboard/CPU/memory(ECC) buy or converting the current system and building a new rig.
Current rig:
MoBo: ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
RAM: Vengeance — 16GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10)
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W BX80623I72600K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000
PSU: Corsair GS700
The NAS will be driven by OpenNAS from USB thumb drive (at least RAID 5), and probably start with 4x 2Tb HDs with room for expansion. Primarily used for household storage, mainly storage for photography, where RAW file size is 10mb and higher. My current system was built for gaming awhile ago, but are there any shortfalls that can be identified from this system being a NAS? Power consumption is not a worry to me, only read/write speed of the NAS over Gig ethernet is the primary worry, since I tried a much older PC and was only getting 500kb/s file transfer.
Thanks for all inputs on the subject.
Cheers!
I wanted to get some ideas from the crowd about moving my current computer over to be an in house NAS setup. I have been bouncing back and forth between investing in a workstation motherboard/CPU/memory(ECC) buy or converting the current system and building a new rig.
Current rig:
MoBo: ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
RAM: Vengeance — 16GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10)
CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W BX80623I72600K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 3000
PSU: Corsair GS700
The NAS will be driven by OpenNAS from USB thumb drive (at least RAID 5), and probably start with 4x 2Tb HDs with room for expansion. Primarily used for household storage, mainly storage for photography, where RAW file size is 10mb and higher. My current system was built for gaming awhile ago, but are there any shortfalls that can be identified from this system being a NAS? Power consumption is not a worry to me, only read/write speed of the NAS over Gig ethernet is the primary worry, since I tried a much older PC and was only getting 500kb/s file transfer.
Thanks for all inputs on the subject.
Cheers!
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