- Aug 24, 2013
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Hi All,
I'll start with explaining what i'm aiming for, then i'll try and word my my questions accordingly.
So as you can tell by the thread name im looking at building a home server, but in an ideal world id like to end up with a NAS that i can backup my media from the phones and PC's in my house which i can setup through FreeNas (the OS i will be using) which i think ill be able to do as i have watched a few "how to's" on. Another feature of my NAS i would like is that i would like to effectively run as an FTP server hosting potentially 10 clients and this is where my questions arise.
Will RAID 5 be fast enough for potentially a few clients at once reading and writing at the same time?
I'll be using ZFS file system, do i need a raid card as ive heard sometimes its better not to with this file system as individual drives can be health checked?
One of my clients is a mac user, can he write to ZFS?
What spec will i need, i.e ram cpu speed/ cores?
Any help is greatly appreciated
I'll start with explaining what i'm aiming for, then i'll try and word my my questions accordingly.
So as you can tell by the thread name im looking at building a home server, but in an ideal world id like to end up with a NAS that i can backup my media from the phones and PC's in my house which i can setup through FreeNas (the OS i will be using) which i think ill be able to do as i have watched a few "how to's" on. Another feature of my NAS i would like is that i would like to effectively run as an FTP server hosting potentially 10 clients and this is where my questions arise.
Will RAID 5 be fast enough for potentially a few clients at once reading and writing at the same time?
I'll be using ZFS file system, do i need a raid card as ive heard sometimes its better not to with this file system as individual drives can be health checked?
One of my clients is a mac user, can he write to ZFS?
What spec will i need, i.e ram cpu speed/ cores?
Any help is greatly appreciated
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