Hi,
I am about to build myself a new PC. I had been intending to buy some large HDD's so that I could run a media server from it, but having gone down a rabbit hole of Youtube video's which lead me to the excellent NAS Compares channel, I am now thinking maybe I should use my old PC to set up a separate media server using TrueNAS.
The PC I am using right now is pretty old, just shy of 10 years, and I know I would need to get some more RAM, but is the rest of the PC good enough? Initially I intend to get three 8tb Ironwolf Drives and setting up RAIDZ1. I'll likely add another 8TB later in the year, then perhaps a second pool of 4 drives down the road when I need more space. Although at that point, I will probably be upgrading to a proper NAS Case with new hardware.
The specs for my old PC are...
Motherboard Asus F2A85-M PRO A85X
CPU AMD APU A8 6600K 4.2GHz Socket FM2 4MB
RAM 8GB 1866MHz DDR3 CL10
Boot Drive Kingston 240GB SSD
So can I get away with just replacing the RAM? is 240gb enough for TrueNAS?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I am about to build myself a new PC. I had been intending to buy some large HDD's so that I could run a media server from it, but having gone down a rabbit hole of Youtube video's which lead me to the excellent NAS Compares channel, I am now thinking maybe I should use my old PC to set up a separate media server using TrueNAS.
The PC I am using right now is pretty old, just shy of 10 years, and I know I would need to get some more RAM, but is the rest of the PC good enough? Initially I intend to get three 8tb Ironwolf Drives and setting up RAIDZ1. I'll likely add another 8TB later in the year, then perhaps a second pool of 4 drives down the road when I need more space. Although at that point, I will probably be upgrading to a proper NAS Case with new hardware.
The specs for my old PC are...
Motherboard Asus F2A85-M PRO A85X
CPU AMD APU A8 6600K 4.2GHz Socket FM2 4MB
RAM 8GB 1866MHz DDR3 CL10
Boot Drive Kingston 240GB SSD
So can I get away with just replacing the RAM? is 240gb enough for TrueNAS?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.