I've been collecting a bunch of hardware for over a year now to put together a home NAS. So far I have a Xeon E3-1245 v6, Supermicro X11SSH, LSI 9207-8i HBA, 8 3TB Seagate Constellation SAS drives, 800GB Intel DC S3500 SDD, and an 8 hot swap bay iStar 2U chassis.
The goal of this NAS will be a Plex media server, and general file storage and backup location. Maybe a couple of VMs and I'm sure I'll play around with Docker containers but probably nothing too intensive. I don't have any high performance expectations for the NAS side of things as I only have 1GB networking in my house but I'm guessing the S3500 as a cache drive should scale pretty well into the future of 10GB networking. For Plex I'd like setup Plex live TV and and use it as DVR with a Hauppauge QuadHD or something similar.
My initial plan was to go with TrueNAS but the more I look at it the more it looks like the FreeBSD base of it are going to be a real limitation if you want to use it for more than just a NAS which has lead me to unRAID.
Thoughts on all this, is unRAID the way to go?
The goal of this NAS will be a Plex media server, and general file storage and backup location. Maybe a couple of VMs and I'm sure I'll play around with Docker containers but probably nothing too intensive. I don't have any high performance expectations for the NAS side of things as I only have 1GB networking in my house but I'm guessing the S3500 as a cache drive should scale pretty well into the future of 10GB networking. For Plex I'd like setup Plex live TV and and use it as DVR with a Hauppauge QuadHD or something similar.
My initial plan was to go with TrueNAS but the more I look at it the more it looks like the FreeBSD base of it are going to be a real limitation if you want to use it for more than just a NAS which has lead me to unRAID.
Thoughts on all this, is unRAID the way to go?