I wanna get a NAS for backing up my files and maybe storing some shows and movies I have downloaded. Is it worth it to get a purpose built NAS or is slapping FreeNAS on a used optiplex easy enough? Also is there a big difference in power draw?
I wanna get a NAS for backing up my files and maybe storing some shows and movies I have downloaded. Is it worth it to get a purpose built NAS or is slapping FreeNAS on a used optiplex easy enough? Also is there a big difference in power draw?
If you're interested in putting ZFS on there, the ideal strategy is to have the OS use its own drive (even a USB drive) and to have the storage drives be 100% dedicated to storing other data, i.e. a ZFS pool. This means you get to totally avoid installing your OS on ZFS - just put it on the usual ext4, probably your Linux distro's default settings.
ZFS on Linux is pretty great imo. Worth checking out if you have the time and drive space to reconfigure. RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 in particular are fantastic.
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Sounds good, comrade! My only rec would be to make sure you've got redundancy (can survive the failure of 2 drives) and backups (off-site and regularly tested).