How many additional hard drives could I add to this machine? Want to pick up a mediocre box to run FreeNas on.
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Ok Good Question. I personally feel that if you have the technical ability, that you should build your own. These units use a disk on module to hold the operating system. That item and a good NAS case are hard to come by. The rest of the components can be easily found and researched on the internet. New Egg dot com. Also the original project that Freenas is based from is nas4free which I think is better in a lot of ways. That is available on sourceforge's website. Now if you don't have the time or desire to build a NAS I would suggest Synology's line of products. Rock Solid performance and a ton of features. Ok Good Question. I personally feel that if you have the technical ability, that you should build your own. These units use a disk on module to hold the operating system. That item and a good NAS case are hard to come by. The rest of the components can be easily found and researched on the internet. New Egg dot com. Also the original project that Freenas is based from is nas4free which I think is better in a lot of ways. That is available on sourceforge's website. Now if you don't have the time or desire to build a NAS I would suggest Synology's line of products. Rock Solid performance and... » Read More Ok Good Question. I personally feel that if you have the technical ability, that you should build your own. These units use a disk on module to hold the operating system. That item and a good NAS case are hard to come by. The rest of the components can be easily found and researched on the internet. New Egg dot com. Also the original project that Freenas is based from is nas4free which I think is better in a lot of ways. That is available on sourceforge's website. Now if you don't have the time or desire to build a NAS I would suggest Synology's line of products. Rock Solid performance and a ton of features. « Show Less
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This is an expansion unit, that allow you to add up to 12 more drives to DS2413+ or DS3612xs. This expansion unit, by itself, does not do anything.
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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The WD Red Series are the only drives I put in mine (17 of the 3TB ones). I would strongly suggest the 3TB or 4TB versions of the WD Red NAS drives for this unit and nothing else.
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I started with one 2TB and have been running it for several months. Adding a second of another brand and size. It's flexible to do that. You can even put in 2.5's with a converter tray, or some people mix in SSD's as well. Pretty limitless. AND most use cases are hot swappable, meaning you can pull and add drives while running.
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Also, if you have an existing FreeNas setup, you can move the drives into this chassis, copy the config over, and have things running on the new hardware with minimal effort.
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You can install as many hard drives as you have available sata ports and power plugs. If you run out of bays, you can just velcro em to the interior of the case. I have an SSD drive for my OS and 3 2 terabyte storage drives. You can use the smaller bays for your SSD
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http://www.synology.com/support/hd.php#94Here is a list of the recommended hard drives. I went by price, but any of them should work well for you. Doug
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I have a DS409 that is about 5 years old now. I built a FreeNAS box 2 years ago and have had a lot of issues (12x3TB drives with 2 as hot spares and 10 in raid z2)... The FreeNAS version I used didn't pick up the hot spares as two of my drives failed and the SAS/SATA card I used has been buggy... not that Synology boxes never fail... I'm thinking of getting one of the 12-drive ones to replace my freenas box. I upped my DS409 to 4x4TB drives to backup my freenas until I resolve the issues. Having done both, Synology is a better option imho.
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The maximum amount of drives that I was able to hook up without any other cards is 3... An SSD for the OS, 2 HDD for storage. I'm not too familiar with RAID setups, but I think you may need a separate RAID controller.
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from what i've read, it can handle up to 15tb....i'm running 5 (3TB) wd reds for 15tb.....might have to research that.
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I considered doing this myself, as the Mini is built from OTS parts. I even purchased the identical case ($200). However, once I created a spreadsheet and entered all of the parts and prices (as best I could; still can't find a source for the exact DOM used in the Mini), the total came to within $30 of the iXsystems price for the diskless Mini. So, is that a fair price for a guaranteed-to-work, out-of-the-box solution? OTOH, if you don't build an exact duplicate, you *can* save some money. But, as Brian L. Bailey pointed out, it comes down to the value you place on your time and data. In any case, whether you buy the diskless Mini or roll your own, be sure to use at least 8GB ECC memory (the Mini has two 8GB ECC DIMMs; ECC should be a ZFS requirement) and server-grade disk drives (Western Digital Red drives are highly recommended), neither of which is as cheap as consumer-grade hardware. Note that FreeNAS requires 8GB base memory plus 1GB per TB of disk space. (See my other answer for Amazon ASINs for DIMMs and Disk drives.) Bottom line: If you value your data, don't scrimp on the hardware. See the FreeNAS web site and forums, such as the thread about "So you want some hardware recommendations?" for more information. On the forum, there are numerous postings by folks who did not adhere to the minimum hardware recommendations for FreeNAS and ZFS and lost all of their data - don't become one of them. Since you still need to back up your data, and backing up, say 6 or 12TB, is no trivial task, I may go ahead and build a second unit using identical parts and locate it in a relative's home. This would help protect our family's data from fire, theft, vandalism, or other disaster.
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I added five drives and I had no problem. I did make sure that the drives I added were the same size as the existing drives in the NAS
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You can fill as few as 2 slots (using one drive as a redundant drive) and leave the rest open for later use. I initially loaded 6 slots with drives and allowed the NAS to test all 6 drives. I them removed 2 drives and keep them as backups. I now have 4 3TB drives installed and running just fine configured as one volume.
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This server supports boths hard drives... Also motherboard lets you install up to 4 hard drives on this server...
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Can you run RAID that way? Id like to install 2 2TB drives, for large capacity RAID.