NervousPanda
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Hi guys,
I'm not, by far, an experienced server builder and I would like to get your opinions before I make my next purchase.
I currently have a home server running Ubuntu server which has adguard, plex, rutorrent, sonarr and radarr. This server is quite old hardware and lately it has been giving me some issues (it was a test setup but it has been running for the past 3 years). We're talking about a AMD Sempron 3850 APU with 2 external HDDs and a internal 128GB SSD so you can see why I'm looking into building a more permanent solution.
I'm looking to build it as affordable as possible, with low power consumption but with possibility to expand and to hold my phone backup, media share etc, no transcoding should be required as my TV playsback most of the formats.
After some research, I was looking into buying the following components:
Motherboard + CPU:
https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/1005004752259038.html which includes a N5105 CPU. According to the official intel specs it only allows for a total of 16GB of RAM but seems it can handle 32GB like a champ.
PSU:
A semi-modular corsair CX550 which is currently installed on my gaming PC (will have to upgrade as I'm upgrading the GPU).
RAM:
G.Skill 16GBx2
HDDs:
Found a deal online for WD purple 8TB drives with less than a year of usage cheaper than WD Red 4TB (if bought in bulk), was looking to buy 3x8TB for a z1 array (sorry if misused, still learning TrueNAS filesystem). A 4TB drive will be used purely for photo backup as this will be the only critical data in the server.
SSDs:
1x 128GB from my current server for boot and a 500GB for cache
Can you please share your input and improvements? Please take into consideration that I'm from Portugal and the portuguese market can be different (usually more expensive when buying used parts).
Many thanks !
I'm not, by far, an experienced server builder and I would like to get your opinions before I make my next purchase.
I currently have a home server running Ubuntu server which has adguard, plex, rutorrent, sonarr and radarr. This server is quite old hardware and lately it has been giving me some issues (it was a test setup but it has been running for the past 3 years). We're talking about a AMD Sempron 3850 APU with 2 external HDDs and a internal 128GB SSD so you can see why I'm looking into building a more permanent solution.
I'm looking to build it as affordable as possible, with low power consumption but with possibility to expand and to hold my phone backup, media share etc, no transcoding should be required as my TV playsback most of the formats.
After some research, I was looking into buying the following components:
Motherboard + CPU:
https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/1005004752259038.html which includes a N5105 CPU. According to the official intel specs it only allows for a total of 16GB of RAM but seems it can handle 32GB like a champ.
PSU:
A semi-modular corsair CX550 which is currently installed on my gaming PC (will have to upgrade as I'm upgrading the GPU).
RAM:
G.Skill 16GBx2
HDDs:
Found a deal online for WD purple 8TB drives with less than a year of usage cheaper than WD Red 4TB (if bought in bulk), was looking to buy 3x8TB for a z1 array (sorry if misused, still learning TrueNAS filesystem). A 4TB drive will be used purely for photo backup as this will be the only critical data in the server.
SSDs:
1x 128GB from my current server for boot and a 500GB for cache
Can you please share your input and improvements? Please take into consideration that I'm from Portugal and the portuguese market can be different (usually more expensive when buying used parts).
Many thanks !