September 3, 20178 yr I just picked up a combo of a Xeon x5679 (3.2ghz 6c/12t) an Asus p6t Mobo (X58 Chipset) Older but decent and it has 9GB of some no name non-ECC Ram. (3x2gb + 3x1gb) with an older Zalman AIO (AllinOne Cooler). All for 180 on Craigslist. Tossed it into a Corsair ThreeHundredTwo Case (Craigslist buy for 40, mainly got for its 6 3.5" bays and room to mount at least two 2.5" SSD/HDDs. With a bunch of sourced drives 3x1TB and 1x2Tb (Parity) I had two drives already and then bought the 2TB drive for 45 bucks (LifeProTip do a S.M.A.R.T Test before buying a Drive, its still alive and has no read errors, but its had a long life thus far per SMART). And then of course I traded my work computer a 500gb HDD (I had this from my laptop which got a 250gb 850 Evo) and clean install of Windows 10 (really needed that) for its 1TB drive (No permission, I just did it, but hey I needed 1TB or larger Hard Drive, Turns out this drive has seen better days too, work comp is an HP from 2011) So I put together a pretty cheap and decent build, but I am curious where I go to from here, as far as upgrades that is. I want to get yall's input on this machine for use as a backup/ ownCloud /Plex/VM machine. I just started playing around with unRaid, FreeNAS, and OpenMediaVault a few months ago and had that running on a 2008 era HP Desktop that I maxed out with a Q6600 CPU (4c/4t @ 2.4g) and 8 GB of DDR2. Let's just say what I got today is a major upgrade. The little HP that couldn't even saturate a gigabit link (~40MBps transfer over SMB Share) SSD Cache Drive??? Do I need two (per Linus Tech Tips suggestion) and what size SSDs, I don't do much in VM land.... yet or ECC RAM that maxes this thing out at 24GB of ECC Ram. (link to ebay 4x4GB DDR3-1333MHz ECC Server Memory for $25, i think 1333 is a bit slow, but then again I don't know the impact) Is unRaid like FreeNAS in that it wants ECC and 1GB per 1TB of Storage (i guess that a ZFS requirement, but thats the main selling point of FreeNAS) Speaking of which can I do ZFS in unRAID. Does ECC even matter in unRaid with an xfs array, running mainly as a NAS and Plex Server? Right Now I have no clue where this unRaid build is going to go, but I have played with the 3 NAS OS's mentioned above and have come back to unRaid (it went FreeNAS, OMV, unRaid. OMV, and finally back to unRaid). Please be honest do I have a good enough setup or will I see much drastic of a change in an SSD Cache or data security will be that much better with ECC RAM. Or should I just Start saving for two WD Red 4TBs and have some real space to play around with. First Rambly Post... Thanks for any Help
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