Building first Home NAS

gaoxing84

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Hi guys, will be building my first ITX home NAS.
Currently already bought these items.
Intel G3220
Asus H97i Plus (6 Sata 3 Ports)
1x4GB Crucial ram
CM 120 Advance Case
Superflower 600w gold (reused)
2x2TB WD Red

Quite a simple build. Will be using FreeNAS and booting up using flashdrive.
My needs are quite simple, extra back up to my HDD in my PC.
Work-related excel files, databases and personal media. Basically replicate files from my PC HDD to the NAS.
More like a home cloud?
My brother will be using a PC without HDD and therefore he needs to access those files via NAS.


Do I need do to RAID 1 or I just use it as 2 independent disk?
UFS or ZFS?
I heard the latest FreeNAS 9.2.2, UFS going to EOL.
If use ZFS, need to have 8 gb ram? or 4gb is enough for my needs?

Another similar build is similar, except that will be based on 1x2TB HDD first, more will be added later on.
 
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If go for raid 1. I definitely need 8gb of ram to run zfs right?

So if 1 hdd, just format is as a normal network drive?
 

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Looks like your setup allows you to expand the capacity in the future. Running 4GB as of now should be sufficient.

Using SHR allows you to expand your storage easily in the future also allows you to have a mixture of different capacity storage.
 

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SHR - Synology Hybrid Raid?

the synology DSM can be install in DIY NAS ah?

DSM vs FreeNAS? lol

i am looking at how to do Wake Up on Lan and also shut down when the NAS scan no online PC
 
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