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Gay Retard
Jun 7, 2003



H110Hawk posted:

Well I've ignored it as long as is feasible. My wife's mac is full from her "Photos" library. We want to go to a consolidated library of photos on the synology. What sort of software are people using to accomplish this using an iphone+mac? Is there a sane way to "export" the photos library onto the NAS short of just opening it and dragging the "Masters" folder out?

I guess the overall question - is there a way to maintain a "gallery" like view of the pictures a-la photos, preferably cross platform, and hopefully one which will sort files into folders for us but not freak out if I rename things?

You could probably just move the Photos library file to your NAS and use AutoMounter on your macs to make sure you're always connected to the share with the library file.

How big is her Photos library? I just went through 10 years of photos and deleted most duplicates from my iPhone and 24 megapixel mirrorless camera. My Photos library ended up being about 30 gigs, so I just bit the bullet and signed up for a 200 GB iCloud account so I don't have to deal with it. You could always just do this and optimize her laptop's Photos library to store it on iCloud.

H110Hawk
Dec 28, 2006


Gay Retard posted:

You could probably just move the Photos library file to your NAS and use AutoMounter on your macs to make sure you're always connected to the share with the library file.

How big is her Photos library? I just went through 10 years of photos and deleted most duplicates from my iPhone and 24 megapixel mirrorless camera. My Photos library ended up being about 30 gigs, so I just bit the bullet and signed up for a 200 GB iCloud account so I don't have to deal with it. You could always just do this and optimize her laptop's Photos library to store it on iCloud.

~400G with minimal duplication. We shoot a lot on vacation. We already pay for some stupid amount of storage on icloud, we want local copies so we can combine our two galleries and not rely on apple magic.

.Z. posted:

Not so sure about from the Mac, but I have an app called 'PhotoSync' on my iPhone. It's setup to automatically copy all my photos over to the NAS whenever I reconnect to my home network. After copying I also get a prompt for deleting all the photos that got copied. But I'm not so sure about having it automatically create galleries as I wanted to do that manually, so never looked into it.

Thanks.

Heners_UK
Jun 1, 2002


.Z. posted:

'PhotoSync' on my iPhone.

Just to be sure, is this the app you're referring to?

And I suppose my only other question, to the wider thread, is if there's anything else I should consider for my fiancee?

I was hoping to use SyncThing for this (mainly because I'm already using it for Android and a few other things) but it seems they don't have an iOS client... even a send-only one.

.Z.
Jan 12, 2008






Heners_UK posted:

Just to be sure, is this the app you're referring to?

And I suppose my only other question, to the wider thread, is if there's anything else I should consider for my fiancee?

I was hoping to use SyncThing for this (mainly because I'm already using it for Android and a few other things) but it seems they don't have an iOS client... even a send-only one.

Yeah, that's the app.

Rexxed
May 1, 2010

Dis is amazing!
I gotta try dis!



Bestbuy has the 10TB easystores for $160 if you join their free club thing:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...208&ref=8575135
from slickdeals: https://slickdeals.net/f/13257925-m...g?src=frontpage

Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004





Rexxed posted:

Bestbuy has the 10TB easystores for $160 if you join their free club thing:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...208&ref=8575135
from slickdeals: https://slickdeals.net/f/13257925-m...g?src=frontpage

Amazon had these for $160 for prime day, o picked up two, they work great in my Synology

The Milkman
Jun 22, 2003

No one here is alone,
satellites in every home


Lipstick Apathy

Rexxed posted:

Bestbuy has the 10TB easystores for $160 if you join their free club thing:
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...208&ref=8575135
from slickdeals: https://slickdeals.net/f/13257925-m...g?src=frontpage

Telling myself I have to wait for 12+ TB drives to hit this price before I upgrade, while also watching used space approach 90%

D. Ebdrup
Mar 13, 2009



The Milkman posted:

Telling myself I have to wait for 12+ TB drives to hit this price before I upgrade, while also watching used space approach 90%


My zpool has hit 100% capacity and been unable to allocate more disk-space at least twice in the ~80000 power-on hours that the disks have, and after I got rid of the data that caused it to happen, the performance of the pool sprang right back to how it was.

Basically, it's all about free-space fragmentation once the pool hits 80% - if up until then you have very low fragmentation, then you should see no problems if you fix the lack of diskspace by deleting stuff.

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747


Do i need SSL encryption/certificate on my NAS that doesn't do anything other than run Sonarr/Radarr/SABnzbd/Plex on the LAN? I'm not 100% clear on what it is or does.

Paul MaudDib
May 3, 2006

"Tell me of your home world, Usul"


On the LAN, no, not unless you want to. It is in fact kind of a pain just on the LAN. You either need to get a domain set up and then get a wildcard for your domain, or use something like Caddy, or create a root certificate of your own and install it to all devices that need to touch SSL. Or just accept invalid certificate errors of course.

If this is exposed to the public internet then yes, you should. Note that this includes UPNP, Plex and others may be tunnelling through your firewall without you knowing unless you explicitly disable that option.

The more secure way would be to set up a VPN server to get into your network, and then once you're in the network you can access the services locally. That way you don't have to trust that all those applications got their security right.

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747


So what it basically is for is security to prevent people gaining access to the NAS?

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell



Dongattack posted:

So what it basically is for is security to prevent people gaining access to the NAS?

It's to prevent people from being able to see the contents of your requests to your NAS from outside your network.

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747


Ah okay, i think i understand. Thank you both of you.

redeyes
Sep 14, 2002
I LOVE THE WHITE STRIPES!

teamdest posted:

Well since I've got the OP updated, I think I'll take a moment and talk about my own fileserver.

Artemis, as I call her, is built off of:

Asus P5W64 WS Workstation Board
Core 2 Duo E4300
2GB DDR2-800

The base specs are very high for what is essentially an entry-level fileserver, but for a reason: the P5W64 has *4* x16 PCI-E slots (16/16/8 or 8/8/8/8 I THINK), which allows me an eventual grand total of FOUR Dell PERC 5/i's or PERC 5/e's. the PERC's are finicky bastards, but if you choose hardware that is compatible they are amazingly solid performers with enterprise-grade features for ~120 on eBay. Two of those are the backbone of my system, each has a pair of 8484 Ports, which breakout to 8 SATAII/SAS ports per card without edge expanders. I'm hesitant to wholeheartedly recommend PERCs, as they have a serious case of motherboard-compatibility-itis, but for what you pay, you get amazing cards. If you're thinking of using PERC 5's, I may be the guy to talk to about getting it up and running.

Currently I'm only using one card, hooked up to a triplet of 500GB drives and a pair of 750's, but that will soon be added to with another 3 750's. All my drives are Seagates, I've lost at least a half-dozen WD drives in the past so the 1/3 year warranty business kinda scared me off. Seagate's 5 year warranty hopefully means that by the time I lose one, I'll have outgrown it anyway. At the moment those drives are in a frighteningly insecure pair of JBODs, but when the 750's finally come I'll be migrating over to Raid-5's with my current tape and off site backup routine.


Which reminds me, what does everyone think of appending Backup information into this thread as well? it seems like this volume of data would necessitate some decent backup measures, and i don't recall any thread related to that recently.

This is a post from like 10 years ago. Go for it bro.

Paul MaudDib
May 3, 2006

"Tell me of your home world, Usul"


disagree, 4 x16 slots is nothing special that would be worth using a fucking ancient core2duo board for. They're probably not even 2.0 slots.

If you want the absolute maximum ports per system, get a Asus X99-E WS or that new Asrock Rack X399 board, which get you 7 3.0x16 slots (some will be x8), and then you put an LSI 9201 and you get 16 ports per card. But that's vastly overkill for literally 6 drives, you can run that off a single card (not even the best card).

Really 4 x16 slots is nothing special anyway, you can get that on a lot of high-end gaming boards or many Asrock Rack/Supermicro whitebox server boards. A 7100 probably beats a core2quad let alone a 9300/9300F/9350KF.

edit: wait that's not like a post from 10 years ago, that is actually a post from 10 years ago, why did you dig that one up again?

Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 31, 2019

HalloKitty
Sep 30, 2005

Adjust the bass and let the Alpine blast


Paul MaudDib posted:

disagree, 4 x16 slots is nothing special that would be worth using a fucking ancient core2duo board for. They're probably not even 2.0 slots.

If you want the absolute maximum ports per system, get a Asus X99-E WS or that new Asrock Rack X399 board, which get you 7 3.0x16 slots (some will be x8), and then you put an LSI 9201 and you get 16 ports per card. But that's vastly overkill for literally 6 drives, you can run that off a single card (not even the best card).

Really 4 x16 slots is nothing special anyway, you can get that on a lot of high-end gaming boards or many Asrock Rack/Supermicro whitebox server boards. A 7100 probably beats a core2quad let alone a 9300/9300F/9350KF.

edit: wait that's not like a post from 10 years ago, that is actually a post from 10 years ago, why did you dig that one up again?

It's on the first page. I'm guessing he thought he was reading the last page instead of the first page for a moment there.
Ah well.

Hadlock
Nov 9, 2004





Dongattack posted:

Do i need SSL encryption/certificate on my NAS that doesn't do anything other than run Sonarr/Radarr/SABnzbd/Plex on the LAN? I'm not 100% clear on what it is or does.

SSL key is an Ovaltine secret decryption ring for all your transmissions. Otherwise literally everyone can read them because they're in plain text

The certificate part is like your driver's license that confirms your identity to outside parties. Like, you trust that the state of New Jersey isn't lying about this guy's identity even though you're both currently in Florida

You can create your own drivers license but nobody but you will trust it, and increasingly even personal software (like Chrome) won't trust them

H110Hawk
Dec 28, 2006


Hadlock posted:

You can create your own drivers license but nobody but you will trust it, and increasingly even personal software (like Chrome) won't trust them

(Though you can jump through a large number of hoops to gain their trust but importing your CA into your OS store (Chrome), the browser store (Firefox), or your phone (this used to be easy on Android.))

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT
Jun 30, 2008



My homies, what's the cheapest way of backing multiple home PCs to the cloud?

I was thinking local backups to a single NAS then NAS to Backblaze B2 but:
a. B2 is cost / gig instead of unlimited
b. The Synology NASes that support multiple concurrent Plex 1080p streams are expensive as fuck
c. I don't really want to build my own and fiddle with Unraid / FreeNAS

I'm currently using my desktop as a Plex server and am wondering if it's possible to just:
1. Throw more disks on it
2. build a RAID array
3. Mount it as a network drive on all other computers
4. Backup all computers to it
5. Backup this desktop using Backblaze's unlimited single PC plan

Does this work, and if so what are the potential pitfalls?

Sheep
Jul 24, 2003


That's basically what I do with Crashplan. I have a script that runs on a Linux box that does a daily rsync of all the paths I care about on my home machines to a local path which is then backed up; it only requires a single license so unlimited storage for 10 bucks a month basically.

Volguus
Mar 3, 2009


LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

My homies, what's the cheapest way of backing multiple home PCs to the cloud?

I was thinking local backups to a single NAS then NAS to Backblaze B2 but:
a. B2 is cost / gig instead of unlimited
b. The Synology NASes that support multiple concurrent Plex 1080p streams are expensive as fuck
c. I don't really want to build my own and fiddle with Unraid / FreeNAS

I'm currently using my desktop as a Plex server and am wondering if it's possible to just:
1. Throw more disks on it
2. build a RAID array
3. Mount it as a network drive on all other computers
4. Backup all computers to it
5. Backup this desktop using Backblaze's unlimited single PC plan

Does this work, and if so what are the potential pitfalls?

From my personal experience B2 is the cheapest one out there to store your files. It seems that they only charge you when you want to retrieve your files (via usb or just download). Since the idea is that I will hopefully never have to download said data, it makes a perfect backup place. I have around 100GB right now uploaded there and I paid last month $0.55 . Google charges $2.79/month for 100GB .

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

I MEAN, TURN OFF YOURE MONITOR, MIGTH EXPLAIN YOUR BAD POSTS, HOPE THIS HELPS?!

How hard would it be to “roll your own” (as the kids say these days) long-term backup solution using AWS Glacier? Like, how does it accept data in?

I have no data to speak of, and anything important is already on my iCloud but I think it might be fun to try to put together my own solution, mostly just to learn how?

And if it works, hey: resume bullet!

Heners_UK
Jun 1, 2002


Schadenboner posted:

How hard would it be to “roll your own” (as the kids say these days) long-term backup solution using AWS Glacier? Like, how does it accept data in?

Duplicati is one of the favoured tools for this.

EDIT: CloudBerry too

Heners_UK fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Aug 1, 2019

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





It's easy but you will pay dearly for retrieval if you ever need to restore from it.

H110Hawk
Dec 28, 2006


IOwnCalculus posted:

It's easy but you will pay dearly for retrieval if you ever need to restore from it.

Glacier can have cheap to free retrieval but you have to wait forever. Overall I glacier is a pain in the ass to use and I would strongly suggest spending your time automating another system.


LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

My homies, what's the cheapest way of backing multiple home PCs to the cloud?

I was thinking local backups to a single NAS then NAS to Backblaze B2 but:
a. B2 is cost / gig instead of unlimited
b. The Synology NASes that support multiple concurrent Plex 1080p streams are expensive as fuck

Don't combine plex with your NAS unless you are rolling your own. Get a nuc that supports quicksync or something to run your plex server. It's not like it needs a ton of memory or disk space.

Use backblaze or b2. Don't backup your plex Linux isos. It's going to be very cheap. I've managed to get up to a $15/month b2 bill because of the versioning and life cycle rules I've put in place, basically the price as the desktop. We have a ton of duplication in there too.

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT
Jun 30, 2008



H110Hawk posted:

Don't combine plex with your NAS unless you are rolling your own. Get a nuc that supports quicksync or something to run your plex server. It's not like it needs a ton of memory or disk space.

Use backblaze or b2. Don't backup your plex Linux isos. It's going to be very cheap. I've managed to get up to a $15/month b2 bill because of the versioning and life cycle rules I've put in place, basically the price as the desktop. We have a ton of duplication in there too.

Do you mean store the Plex content on the NAS but use a NUC / PC as the server to transcode it for streaming to remote devices? Will introduce significant performance penalties (e.g. when jumping to different timestamps, fast forwarding, etc.)?

H110Hawk
Dec 28, 2006


LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

Do you mean store the Plex content on the NAS but use a NUC / PC as the server to transcode it for streaming to remote devices? Will introduce significant performance penalties (e.g. when jumping to different timestamps, fast forwarding, etc.)?

Yes I do. Assuming wired gigabit ethernet - No. You likely couldn't tell the difference unless you have content that's in a super old format that isn't mp4/mkv.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell



My favorite cloud-supporting backup tool is Duplicacy. Note that that his different from duplicati.

I've got like 250GB of OneDrive space for free over the years through promotions and stuff, and it works real nice.

Do Not Fear Jazz
Feb 1, 2005

EMBRACE IT


Been trying to use duplicati in a docker container to provide cloud backups of my entire UnRAID server but it consistently runs into issues and fails to backup. Anyone have any decent alternatives? (Preferably able to upload to gcloud) roughly 22.3 TB currently.

ACRE & EQUAT
Aug 28, 2004

FUNERAL BREADS
WAR BREAD


After some drive failures, I'm planning to try to convince my boss to get a DAS hardware RAID 5 or 6 array. I want to leave a clear set of instructions about what to do if they need to recover after I'm gone, but what I find from googling raid recovery is just proprietary software and data services. Then I realize I don't really have a basic understanding of what's going on.

What exactly do I do if a hardware RAID 5 fails? Is it really as simple as hot swapping in an unformatted disk of the same size? Do all hardware raid levels with parity support hot swapping?

If the RAID enclosure fails, is it as simple as plugging the drives into a Windows machine and using software raid to rebuild the array? Can you put the drives in a new hardware RAID enclosure without reformatting? Or is recovering from a failure of the enclosure something that always has to be professionally done?

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





If this is for corporate data that is actually worth money, it should be on a device with commercial support and with off-site backups.

Recovering a failed RAID due to hardware failures (multiple disks, RAID controller, enclosure, etc) is extremely low probability and shouldn't even be part of your DR plan.

Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014



Taco Defender

ACRE & EQUAT posted:

What exactly do I do if a hardware RAID 5 fails? Is it really as simple as hot swapping in an unformatted disk of the same size?

I think you've got your terminology mixed up here. A failed RAID means that the array has lost more drives than it is configured to handle and the data is effectively lost. A degraded RAID means that there is/are failed disks but the data is still available, which is the situation that you're describing here.

quote:

Do all hardware raid levels with parity support hot swapping?

This is entirely dependent on the controller and hardware, not the RAID level.

quote:

If the RAID enclosure fails, is it as simple as plugging the drives into a Windows machine and using software raid to rebuild the array?

No. Windows will see the drives but will have no idea what is on them. Rebuilding the array is something the controller must do.

quote:

Can you put the drives in a new hardware RAID enclosure without reformatting?

If you're using the same model of controller and have it set up the exact same way, maybe (controller dependent). This is assuming that it is only the controller that failed and the actual array is healthy.

e. If you're the only IT dude and you won't be sticking around for too long then, like IOC said, going with a commercial product with monitoring and support would be very good. It's important to get failed drives replaced and the array rebuilt ASAP, especially when using RAID 5 (don't use RAID 5).

Actuarial Fables fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Aug 4, 2019

ACRE & EQUAT
Aug 28, 2004

FUNERAL BREADS
WAR BREAD


Thank you. I know these are all really stupid questions!

IOwnCalculus posted:

If this is for corporate data that is actually worth money, it should be on a device with commercial support and with off-site backups.

Recovering a failed RAID due to hardware failures (multiple disks, RAID controller, enclosure, etc) is extremely low probability and shouldn't even be part of your DR plan.

It is research data that's being taken in areas without good Internet access and being flown back. We're a small group and even the purchase of a consumer-level thing will be nontrivial.

The current system is to buy a stack of portable drives and copy everything at least twice. The usb port on one got messed up and kept disconnecting. I thought I could just put the drive in another enclosure, but the portable drives don't seem to have a sata port, they just have the usb port soldered in. We're running out of space anyway, and I figured if we are buying replacements, we should just go ahead and get something that mirrors automatically.

Actuarial Fables posted:

I think you've got your terminology mixed up here. A failed RAID means that the array has lost more drives than it is configured to handle and the data is effectively lost. A degraded RAID means that there is/are failed disks but the data is still available, which is the situation that you're describing here.

This is entirely dependent on the controller and hardware, not the RAID level.

No. Windows will see the drives but will have no idea what is on them. Rebuilding the array is something the controller must do.

If you're using the same model of controller and have it set up the exact same way, maybe (controller dependent). This is assuming that it is only the controller that failed and the actual array is healthy.

Is the proprietary software the only way to recover a failed RAID?

Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014



Taco Defender

You can't recover a failed RAID. You make a new RAID and then restore your data from backup. If you don't have a backup of the data then you pay a data recovery company a lot of money to get told that there's nothing they can recover.

Honestly the system you have set up currently seems to be better than buying a single enclosure. With a single device holing all the data, it becomes a single point of failure and should something happen to it (someone spills water over it, gets dropped hard, gets stolen, lost during shipping) then you're dead. Having multiple independent drives means that they can be in different physical locations and be in separate bags for shipping. Just buy external drives that aren't soldered - the WD easystores are known to this thread for just being NAS style drives in an easy to open external container.

RAID does not make you safe. Having multiple independent copies of data makes you safer.

e. I guess I should note that depending on the kind of RAID failure (not degradation but failure), data recovery can potentially work, but that shouldn't be part of your consideration for data storage. Data Recovery providers make their money off of those who have poor data policies and procedures.

Actuarial Fables fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Aug 5, 2019

Moey
Oct 22, 2010

I LIKE TO MOVE IT


ACRE & EQUAT posted:

Thank you. I know these are all really stupid questions!


It is research data that's being taken in areas without good Internet access and being flown back. We're a small group and even the purchase of a consumer-level thing will be nontrivial.

The current system is to buy a stack of portable drives and copy everything at least twice. The usb port on one got messed up and kept disconnecting. I thought I could just put the drive in another enclosure, but the portable drives don't seem to have a sata port, they just have the usb port soldered in. We're running out of space anyway, and I figured if we are buying replacements, we should just go ahead and get something that mirrors automatically.

What is the size of the dataset?

Axe-man
Apr 16, 2005

The product of hundreds of hours of scientific investigation and research.

The perfect meatball.


Clapping Larry

Just remember that any real data that is actually important should follow the 3 - 2 - 1 and be updated in line with the importance and use of the data.

Aka if you have a file that changes daily you should have versioning or a backup of it daily.

https://www.nakivo.com/blog/3-2-1-b...ction-strategy/

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell



Do Not Fear Jazz posted:

Been trying to use duplicati in a docker container to provide cloud backups of my entire UnRAID server but it consistently runs into issues and fails to backup. Anyone have any decent alternatives? (Preferably able to upload to gcloud) roughly 22.3 TB currently.

What about my post directly before yours?

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles



ACRE & EQUAT posted:

After some drive failures, I'm planning to try to convince my boss to get a DAS hardware RAID 5 or 6 array. I want to leave a clear set of instructions about what to do if they need to recover after I'm gone, but what I find from googling raid recovery is just proprietary software and data services. Then I realize I don't really have a basic understanding of what's going on.

What exactly do I do if a hardware RAID 5 fails? Is it really as simple as hot swapping in an unformatted disk of the same size? Do all hardware raid levels with parity support hot swapping?

If the RAID enclosure fails, is it as simple as plugging the drives into a Windows machine and using software raid to rebuild the array? Can you put the drives in a new hardware RAID enclosure without reformatting? Or is recovering from a failure of the enclosure something that always has to be professionally done?

If a drive falls out of a raid 5/6 array, things will slow down severely but stay online due to it calculating the missing data from parity on the fly. You pop out the drive (pretty much anything server-grade is going to have a hot-swappable drive bay but check regardless) and put a working on in its place and with most controllers it will start automatically rebuilding the missing the data and writing it to the new disk. Performance will continue to be degraded until this completes.

The only real difference here between 5 and 6 is that raid 6 has two copies of parity data on disks which means you can tolerate a second disk failure without the entire array dying. This tends to become important with large enterprise arrays where disks are sourced from the same lots and may have a common defect increasing the risk of a double-failure scenario.

Metadata for the array is kept on the individual member disks, so if you suffer a complete controller failure you can (in most cases) replace the controller and it will import the foreign array config from the member disks and pick up from where it was. This is assuming that the controller didn't corrupt the hell out of things on the way out, which is why you have proper backups in addition to your array. Arrays are generally unique to the controller (or controller family) that created them, you can just lift a raid 5 off an LSI array and expect Windows to do anything with it besides offer to format the disk.

Mid to high-end raid controllers will have write-caching. This is good from a performance standpoint as it lets write operations buffers for a while before sending them to disk which allows the controller intelligence some breathing room to make smart decisions on when to commit the data (wait for read load to dip if possible, order in a way most beneficial to NCQ, do some write-combining maybe). The drawback here is that if you have an unexpected system/power failure, you are at risk of the data in the write cache never being committed to disk. This it mitigated by either having a battery backup on the cache to keep it powered and live even if power is cut, giving you time to get the system back online and finish committing that data to disk. High-end controllers will use solid-state cache to remove the battery variables and maintenance from the equation.

CopperHound
Feb 14, 2012



Okay, I decided to do a foolish thing and build my own NAS and I want a quick reality check:
I want to use a NSC-810a case. Is a X11SSM-F pretty much my best motherboard option? I don't see a lot of other mATX boards with 8 sata ports.
My only hang-up is that I don't think I need ecc memory and that motherboard can only handle up to 7th gen processors. It would not be holding anything mission critical and I don't have plans to use ZFS. The main use would likely be for Plex media and other bulk storage.

E: oh and keeping the cost down where reasonable would be nice too.

Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014



Taco Defender

The case you've picked supports two 1-slot pci/e expansion cards, so you can use a SATA/SAS HBA instead of using the motherboard ports. This lets you pick virtually any other motherboard that strikes your fancy (and price range).

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