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excellent what's up guys welcome to Paul's hardware today I'm going to be doing a brand new build this is a specialty build that's actually a mass network attached storage and I have a confession to make I've actually not been running an ass here at home at pretty much at all so this is going to solve some problems for me but I'll go into some of the features of the NASA later I'm going to focus on the hardware I get the system put together for today so going to be it's long free NASA's mentioned that uses ZFS file system file system which features triple redundancy beyond that I'm using some reused hardware so I have parts that I already had on hand which is often a very common use case for an ask so for instance I have a z77 I deluxe motherboard here from Asus with an Intel Core i3 2105 this is a Sandy Bridge processor so it's got a few years of use in it already but it's still going to do a great job power supply is pretty overkill this is actually than one newest part of the bill which is an RM 850 X from Corsair 80 plus gold again overkill but this shouldn't be able to run in families mode with the amount of power that this SIL whole system is going to be drawing fractal node 304 case nice and tiny plenty of room for all the hard drives they'll be putting in the hard drives by the way are going to be WD red drives which are made for Nass use and you're going to want to pay attention to that if you're picking out your hard drives three and ass-master Ives are definitely the way you want to go I got four of those they're not right here right now because they're still copying footage off of my media center which I'm going to be swapping them out from lastly of course you've got to have some memory so went ahead you got the crucial blissed don't do it all that's just wrong Ram this is just a little 4 gig kit of Crucial Ballistix that should be probably you're gonna be running GFS ZFS is gonna need about one gigabyte of ram per terabyte of hard drive space oh so I brought with me some fury HyperX that made it sound like they pay for this that I paid for this I think for this brought to you Paul if you arrived in the nick of time to thank you thank you like a fury Thank You Logan from tech syndicate this is this is this is a fact fantastic fairy HyperX thats about 16 gigabytes which is what you're gonna using in your system because I got 16 terabytes of storage and that'll make it work out just fine for you well that's a look if my work done here ha how did you know I was building an ass right now oh uh Kane told me I didn't came no I was building an ass right now logan worked tirelessly into the nights for hours on end here I assumed it was ours it's a time lapse so it's hard to tell maybe it was just a few minutes but I woke the next morning I was in a daze Logan was gone but on the dining room table was the nests in its most recent form ready for the next step now the stuff I was not able to take the day before when Logan was actually here was to install the drives themselves for four terabyte WD red Nash drives these were actually removed from my HTPC in my living room which I did a video on last year they've been doing a great job there it's given me effectively about 11 terabytes of usable storage but I've only actually ever used more about three or four on that system so my next step was to remove those drives and what I had set up the day before was a big old copy from the internal raid 5 array that those four drives were in over to an external drive or drive that I had set up externally which is a Hitachi HGST ultra star helium six terabyte drive this is an enterprise drive nice and fast nice and reliable and I'm going to pop this as a single drive into my htpc this will be handling DVR duties as well as mass storage over there and all the WD red drives are coming out to go in the nest and now as you can see I have installed those WD red drives into the NASS I went ahead and remove the middle rack from the the note 304 here in order to give a single Drive spacing in between each drive since there's four so I actually installed these two on the outside of the cage to give you one here space one here space one here space and one here working out pretty good I just need to do the final steps here to wire up those drives power on the system and then we will go forward with the the thing that Logan left me other than a thorough loganing was these two little USB drives right here so for free and ass we actually need an installer and we need a drive to run off of this is the installer and Logan already took the time to create that and then install FreeNAS onto this USB this is the USB Drive that we're going to be running off of it's USB 3 and it's nothing's too special but it is definitely recommended to get a USB Drive or separate small drive to run the LS off of okay that's about all I know about FreeNAS so far let's go ahead and finish out this build so I got the drives all wired up and I want to do one last little once over the hardware here before I move on to the software first off I wanted to keep this little USB internally that's going to run off of I didn't want it sticking out the back here so I didn't have a simple USB 2.0 internal like a bracket header I feel like I should have lots of those lying around but instead I had to go with the kind of workaround which is a USB 3.0 header and then I have this adapter that goes USB 3.0 USB 2.0 so it's a little bit of a waste of USB 3.0 header but I actually have I found like three of those but none of the USB 2.0 is around and just just kind of how it goes with the computer parts one other thing here is the cable management of course which is looking and I don't know it's it's like in between for an ITX built around on this side it's definitely pretty mishmash II but the main important things that I'm worrying about here is that I have clear channels here between the drives for those two front intake fans on the front to push air back which I do it's a little bit blocked over on the side but open for the most part this Center area is also quite clear and open so that's important and I got the exhaust at the back so it's going to be pulling any hot air out of there and then the power supply fortunately is kind of on its own little system here and a little exhaust out the side the the panel that's on the side of the note three or four okay one last thing and this is a pretty important one that I had a sneaking suspicion about and I don't know what tipped me off that this might be the case but if you're working with older hardware or just hardware that you've had around for a while you shouldn't always assume everything is is the way it should be so for example I have this stock heatsink fan on this on this board here and I did use this board in my htpc for quite a while before I built the new one that about a year ago I decided to pull this off just to double-check and thank God I did because there's no freaking thermal paste on this thing absolutely none that might have met have been a negative impact on my CPU temperature so I'm just going to add some thermal paste pop this back on and then we'll get the software up and running before I close out this video well some time has passed since I last worked on the system but I'm happy to say that with the just a little bit of work today and last night's I managed to get FreeNAS installed it is set up and it seems to be working just fine I used the Installer that Logan set me up with and beyond a couple complications that I had which is mainly just because this board the motherboard had been used in a system prior I had to reset the CMOS and that pretty much cleared up any issues I was having but if you've ever installed Windows before it was nothing more complicated than switching the boot device over to this and then after the installation went through switching the boot device back over to the USB Drive that's installed right over there internally and everything's working just fine after everything got installed onto that little gigabyte drive over there which just a matter of booting off of that it will go through and recognize all the hardware it looks like it recognized pretty much everything that was in there it will prompt you to create a root password and then it will get you to a point where you have a list of commands on the screen that you can do directly with the system or you can do what is much more simple and you can switch over to actually just using a web browser on a different computer connect to the same network it will give you an IP address at the bottom which will almost always start with 192 as far as I know when I so go there and then it will prompt you to login you can log in using the same login and password that you created as you went through the glut process and now we are into FreeNAS now I was going to start going through some of the setup processes here they do have a wizard for example that will kind of guide you through setting up some of the things like a data pool and that kind of thing and language all that good thing all that good stuff now my main issue with FreeNAS is really that I just haven't used it much before so here's where any semblance of a tutorial for this video is going to end because I'm mainly comfortable with setting up the hardware side of it I need to do some dabbling and some messing around with this in the FreeNAS UI they do have a wizard you can go through what I'm actually going to be using is a Wendell's video on tech syndicate and I'll link that down in the description and he goes through kind of some of the basic setup procedures for setting up your storage the way you want it and getting it set up so it can handle some of the more advanced functions like backup and all those things what I really want to do with this Nass in the future and that's what I will be doing a follow-up video on probably in the next couple weeks is set it up to do some of the really cool things that I know NASA's can do apart from just being a massive amount of storage that's here at home that I can access to do a bunch of backups on like dropping all my old video footage onto it or that kind of thing or old edits that I want to keep I will also be using it possibly to tie into my HTPC I want to take all the mechanical drives out of the HTPC so it gets dead silent do some backup storage on here with some SSD storage over there I want to be able to do a media server on here of course so I can have videos as well as music that I can access from other devices around the house or if I'm on the go can access them remotely I want to set this up so I also have remote access when I'm like on the road so when I've done trips like CES or Computex for example I don't always have time to edit while I'm there so I have worked with a couple editors in the past and I would like to have the ability to upload all my footage straight to here and then have my editor who's somewhere else be able to remotely access that to pull the footage off of it so they can do edits and there's lots of other cool things that you can do with an ass so if you have an ass and you have set it up to do something cool that you'd like to see me try out maybe leave that in the comment section down below or if you don't know if you're like I maybe couldn't ask do this also leave me your questions good because I am just as curious as you guys probably are anyway though don't forget to hit the like button if you enjoyed this video stay tuned for more coverage on the NASS and further developments there and don't forget to check out my store where you can purchase shirts like this one as well as mugs and glasses that's a great way to support me and get yourself some awesome hardware or well some merchandise in the meantime and also if you're just shopping on Amazon my Amazon links are down in the description - you can click those before you shop I get a little 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