Thread: Storage or?

so after some research,
it looks like Freenas with ZFS z1( the motherboard i'll be using does support raid 5-- )
this gives me 3.75TB storage, with a recoverable loss of 1 drive,, and I have an identical drive as the spare.

all this to keep my vintage porn safe..
its more like just a learning thing

as the house runs on wireless I plan to add a modem (I wonder if my old GA-X38-DS5 has wake on LAN, and if that works on wireless? )use it as backup for everyone. Yes I know raids are not backup,, but they are,, sort of

all and any advice accepted.

Ok,, will be using my old 2008? original ROME build,, (for those with long memories---the pics are here somewhere) so it has a Ga-X38-DS5 with a Core 2 Duo 6700 plus a Corsair HX 650 modular PSU with a half modern Gigabyte 620,, not that thats important,, ( for once )
What made anyone think they need 4 CD-ROM bays?
It has 8GB of DDR2-800 ram, which, FreeNAS apparently needs,, Took me around two hours tonight to troubleshoot 6 sticks of suitable but unknown ram into 8gb bolted in..
one of the lucky things about the MB is it has 8 sata ports,, one of the lucky things about the case is it handles 6 HDD's. not many do unless you go full tower-- but then I have never looked/bought/thought about 6 HDD's running together before ,,

after watching some vids about btrfs and stuff I thought It would be a good idea to test the ram, so its now running memtest86 5.01.
any ideas on how long is long enough?

12 hours should do it Pedro.

well, 12 hours and no errors,, not bad really as theres 3 different manufacturers, and one with no name at all!!
hmm whats next,,
I have a new 8gb usb drive to use for the OS,,
I have the OS on disc,

I am having trouble arranging power to 7 sata devices,, thought I had it covered by buying a molex 2 -- 4way sata splitter cable, and the one OE Corsair modular cable with two sata connectors,, thats 6, great I thought then remembered I swapped out the old CD-rom (molex and ribbon) for a newer sata DVD drive,, and now I'm one sata connection short--

Speed Bump!
FreeNas only runs on a 64bit processor-----
anyone know where i can find a socket 775 Intel 64 bit processor ?

Think I've got a 3.2ghz core 2 quad somewhere Pedro. I'll have a hunt.

another piece of the puzzle found, the MB will "wake On Ring" or incoming signal from a LAN
and i have connected each Drive to a PC and they all appear to work,,