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Is there a recommended motherboard or cpu to use this in a house?
by pibefision 13y ago
Is there a recommended motherboard or cpu to use this in a house?
- tachion 13y agoBasically, its anything that FreeBSD can run on (and that's a lot, on its own: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/hardware.html http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/hardware.html) and that will at the same time fill your needs (in terms of platform architecture, power consumption, number of available/supported IO/storage options, size and so on). If you're still unsure, there's a great community and forum available, and some general hardware guide can be found here (it covers entire NAS appliance): http://forums.freenas.org/threads/so-you-want-some-hardware-suggestions.12276/ http://forums.freenas.org/threads/so-you-want-some-hardware-...
- pibefision 13y agothank you!
- haswell 13y agoI built mine on an HP Proliant N36L MicroServer. There are doubtless newer models now, but these can usually be found for less than $300, and it ran out of the box flawlessly (though I added 8GB of RAM). Depending on your needs, this is a great platform - low power, small case, built with installing multiple drives in mind. This is the newest equivalent product: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107921 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859107...
- stock_toaster 13y agoI picked up an n54l recently. Slapped freebsd9/ZFS on it, and it has been working great so far.