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TriplexDread

TriplexDread

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Hello all.

We all know money a little hard to come by at present yeah?

I have for a while had plans to build a system for the NAS and using what I have laying about at home. Maybe buy a better APU. I bought the flagship model albeit old now. The AMD A8-3870K - 4x 3GHz. It's going into a FM1 board with about 16gig ddr3.

My question is do you think it is enough to run a FreeNAS server and possibly one VM?
I don't have a clue really so it's all a new learning curve for me. I will of course have to buy the HDD's
Gonna cost a few quid as I want to fill the SATA ports. 6 in total on this board GA-A55M-S2HP.
And a case too.

Cabinet is in and all wired up awaiting this;

What are you opinions powerful enough? Should be yeah?
I'm taking into account most NAS have four cores of a lower lower speed and much lower memory config?

I'm a complete n00b at this FreeNAS stuff and VM's so looking forward to delving in.

Any opinions?
 
Yup, that'll be great for FreeNAS, even with a VM running. I've got several VMs running on a lower spec NAS. If you run a NAS, definitely read up on Docker - it's amazing for running 3rd party apps.

Have you got a small SSD? That would be amazing to run the OS from, as well as Docker/VMs. Spinning disks can do the bulk of the normal storage.
 
You can get a 120 GB ssd for less than £20 inc postage,

https://www.picstop.co.uk/ssd-drive...0_1604251817_73b9d93cf6085d6b093b610cb98bc893

https://www.mymemory.co.uk/memory/data-storage/ssd-drives/120gb-ssd.html

Or even for less than a tenner for a second hand one.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OCZ-Agil...anic&brand=OCZ&_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Samsung-...895167?hash=item4db67975ff:g:53cAAOSwQbFfVmKj

Ssd's have tons of life in them and the smaller £2/64/120 GB ones are dirt cheap and much better than a usb stick. I would avoid the unknown brand Chinese ones.

:cool:
 
TriplexDread said:
Yes I know mate. Money is extremely tight at present...Extremely. So it can wait :)
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Been there done that, you have my sympathy. Best part of being skint is when you get something new that you have saved up for you get a real kick out of it. :D
 
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