I am researching options to build a new system and would appreciate recommendations.
Current setup:
Thx!
Current setup:
- Motherboard Intel BOXDH67BLB3 - I bought it new 8 years ago for my first build and realizing now what a mistake it was (doesn't support ECC memory)
- CPU Core i3 3220T 2.8 GHz - Another mistake and it probably drove my making the one above - I was naively overly concerned with power usage
- RAM 32GB DDR3 non-ECC :-(
- PSU Corsair CX430
- HBA HP H220 LSI 9207-8i - Purchased this last year to extend storage capacity - thanks to info from these forums this has been working great
- Boot Drives two Intel 320 series 40GB SSDs - Purchased about a year ago and working great
- Storage Drives - six 4TB WD Red and six 2TB various mfg (not all in use, but would like to put them into use)
- Case Antec 300 - an ok case, but not enough room for all the drives and have not been able to make good use of the 5.25" bays
- I have been running FreeNAS and plugins for Plex and Transmission. Recently moved Plex to an old core i7 Windows machine because of poor performance watching/pausing/ffwd live TV that was also being recorded. This may have been an issue with my DVR Tuner settings (having the Homerun Extend transcode the stream) and player settings, but I like having Plex outside of a jail/plugin because it's easier to keep up to date.
- I store workstation backups, documents, and media libraries on a RaidZ2 Pool (six 4TB drives) and various temp/replaceable files on Pools composed from the 2TB drives
- I want to run TrueNAS virtualized and some additional VMs as well
- New (to me) motherboard, cpu, and RAM - I like the idea of a used Supermicro board, but not sure what my best bet would be there -X9, X10, X11. Would like IPMI, don't need 10Gbe at this time
- PSU - Thinking I will probably need more power than what I currently have. It is best to buy new PSUs or are used ones good?
- Drives - I believe my storage and boot drives are good - should I get something additional to run ESXi on and/or the other VMs on?
- Case - will need something that can house all the drives
- I want to run TrueNAS virtualized and some additional VMs as well
Thx!