Hello,
before writing about my problem I want to mention that I already had a look on some of the discussions here as well as the TrueNAS Hardware Guide. However, it is quite a bit difficult for me to find something suitable to my needs.
Currently I'm running a Non-TrueNAS system based on an Intel Core i5-4690S, 32 GB RAM, Adaptec RAID Controller, and 8x 6TB HDDs. The whole system consumes in the Idle state (drives spinning) around 130 W.
I'm thinking about to change to TrueNAS with a completely new hardware setup. However, my current server acts as a fileserver + host for different VMs.
Here in the forum I found the information that it is recommended to run TrueNAS bare-metal and not on top of an hypervisor. Therefore, my current goal would be using two servers in the future (one for TrueNAS, the other one for Proxmox).
Do you see a chance to run the two servers and get an overall power consumption that is comparable to the 130W I have nowadays?
My wishlist for the new setup is:
Thanks a lot in advance,
Thomas
before writing about my problem I want to mention that I already had a look on some of the discussions here as well as the TrueNAS Hardware Guide. However, it is quite a bit difficult for me to find something suitable to my needs.
Currently I'm running a Non-TrueNAS system based on an Intel Core i5-4690S, 32 GB RAM, Adaptec RAID Controller, and 8x 6TB HDDs. The whole system consumes in the Idle state (drives spinning) around 130 W.
I'm thinking about to change to TrueNAS with a completely new hardware setup. However, my current server acts as a fileserver + host for different VMs.
Here in the forum I found the information that it is recommended to run TrueNAS bare-metal and not on top of an hypervisor. Therefore, my current goal would be using two servers in the future (one for TrueNAS, the other one for Proxmox).
Do you see a chance to run the two servers and get an overall power consumption that is comparable to the 130W I have nowadays?
My wishlist for the new setup is:
- TrueNAS Server
- Intel CPU (prefered a Xeon)
- ECC RAM
- Prefered a Supermicro mainboard
- HBA
- NIC with 10 GBit/s
- HDDS: 4x8TB (RAIDZ2) + 4x14TB (RAIDZ2)
- Proxmox Server
- Intel CPU (prefered a Xeon)
- Sufficient for 2-4 VMs + some Docker containers
- One of the docker containers shall provide Plex (so would be good if the CPU has a low Idle power consumption, but enough power to transcode some (1..4) 4K streams).
- Prefered a Supermicro mainboard
- If possible using this system disk-less (to reduce the power consumption), maybe accessing the TrueNAS via Ethernet (iSCSI, NFS).
- NIC with 10 GBit/s
- Intel CPU (prefered a Xeon)
Thanks a lot in advance,
Thomas