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I'm happy that you replied and that we can discuss this - time (thus far) is still on my side! That NAS of yours looks like a sweet system! If / when I do move my NAS away from the experimental server setup to a standalone production system, I might look at a configuration like yours! I'm...

Thanks for the welcome - it's been an enlightening 2 days here so far! I've gone with 2 SSDs as I intend to run them in a mirror or RAID1 config (so in case I lose one, I can just switch over to the other). On these SSDs I essentially intend to store the server OS (and perhaps a few VM images)...

Thanks! I hope to be able to contribute too, rather than just keep asking :) (though I expect it will be more of the latter initially!)

@vivek.krishnan - thanks for your insights! It does give me food for thought, and I'll also be happy to hear @cyberwarfare's thoughts. I will be happy to use a server case, but have not been able to find any (which is not crazy expensive). I'd love hot-swap bays too. Would you have an idea on...

An avid technology enthusiast, who's finally decided to get his hands dirty and build his own hardware at home. Currently this is a linux server and FreeNAS, but intend to grow this into wider and more exciting things over time (as long as I can keep making time for this). My personal...

I'm building a home server for the first time which would (initially) also have a FreeNAS setup running within. I'm looking for a good case for this, and not getting too far with my research Needs: - As it's housing a server/FreeNAS, it needs to run 24x7. Thus reliability of the box and all...

[And I just noticed this template, and here it is filled in] What is your budget? 80K What is your existing hardware configuration (component name - component brand and model) Motherboard - Supermicro X9SRL-F-O GPU - None RAM - Samsung 2X16GB DDR3 ECC Registered RAM 1600 Monitor - None CPU...

I've decided to take the plunge and build myself a server. I've done some research, ordered a few parts, and need some help with the pending parts, configuration, and setup. (Though in this thread I'd like to focus just on getting the complete hardware defined. The setup I'll post in another...