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Guti_Haz
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Hi all,
I'm about to set up a NAS (it will be mostly used for storing movies, pictures & music and maybe some random documents).
As I'm not that experienced with Linux, could you advise which distribution I should use?
planned hardware so far:
MB:
- ASUS P9D WS
CPU:
- Intel Core i5-4570TE Processor
(first I thought about Intel Xeon Processor E3-1220L v2, but I could not find any 1155 sockel MB with 6x SATA III interfaces / just 3x SATA III)
HDD:
- 3x WD30EFRX (I will start with 3x 3TB WD Red disks, maybe a 4th for immediate hot swapping)
RAM - not sure yet, something like:
Crucial DIMM 4GB, DDR3L-1600, CL9, ECC
I would set it up in Raid 5 and also thought about using a smaller SSD as cache (i.e. Kingston SSDNow mS200 30GB)
Is it possible to do so (using Raid 5 and SSD cache) and how much SSD space do I need to make the cache useful?
So, to summarize, I would have following questions:
- Which distribution should I use?
- Is Raid 5 and SSD cache on the same system possible?
- How much SSD space would be needed to make the cache useful?
- Is the hot swapping function available with a linux raid (5) systems?
- Maybe you could also have a short look at my chosen components so far - maybe you got some better ideas ;-)
I really spent quite an amount of time on the internet looking up different stuff, but I could not find the answeres to these specific questions to be 100% sure...
looking forward to your answers,
cheers,
Christian
I'm about to set up a NAS (it will be mostly used for storing movies, pictures & music and maybe some random documents).
As I'm not that experienced with Linux, could you advise which distribution I should use?
planned hardware so far:
MB:
- ASUS P9D WS
CPU:
- Intel Core i5-4570TE Processor
(first I thought about Intel Xeon Processor E3-1220L v2, but I could not find any 1155 sockel MB with 6x SATA III interfaces / just 3x SATA III)
HDD:
- 3x WD30EFRX (I will start with 3x 3TB WD Red disks, maybe a 4th for immediate hot swapping)
RAM - not sure yet, something like:
Crucial DIMM 4GB, DDR3L-1600, CL9, ECC
I would set it up in Raid 5 and also thought about using a smaller SSD as cache (i.e. Kingston SSDNow mS200 30GB)
Is it possible to do so (using Raid 5 and SSD cache) and how much SSD space do I need to make the cache useful?
So, to summarize, I would have following questions:
- Which distribution should I use?
- Is Raid 5 and SSD cache on the same system possible?
- How much SSD space would be needed to make the cache useful?
- Is the hot swapping function available with a linux raid (5) systems?
- Maybe you could also have a short look at my chosen components so far - maybe you got some better ideas ;-)
I really spent quite an amount of time on the internet looking up different stuff, but I could not find the answeres to these specific questions to be 100% sure...
looking forward to your answers,
cheers,
Christian