Alphonse
Cadet
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- Sep 11, 2022
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Hello, Long time lurker, first time builder.
I am double checking things before I commit to my first actual NAS build.
Some background on use case
I have a media server with about 15tb right now, but its dirty, and not in any form of raid. Not good.
I also run a variety of servers some for managing the media, home assistant, and plex, others for Running Ansible Automation Platform for testing for work/learning, which is 6 vms all said and done. I've hit a memory bottleneck on my old ryzen with 64gb, So I was looking at TrueNas Scale as I could get my data in a better place, run the VMs and plex on a better system, and have room to run things like Openshift on VMs and learn there as well.
So the proposed setup is a
Motherboard Asrock Rack ROMED8-2T/BCM
CPU: EPYC 7302 or better if I can find a good deal
Memory: NEMIX RAM 256GB (4x64GB) DDR4-2400 LRDIMM 4Rx4
CPU cooler: Freezer 4U SP3
Case: Fractal define 7 xl
Drives 6x Seagate IronWolf NAS 12 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive in raidz2
I know that its not fully loaded out, and I can add more memory down the line, or even higher.
So A few questions that I haven't been able to answer.
1. The minSASHD ports, Are these good to run off of, or should I get an LSI, how about the occulus ports converted through cabling/things to SATA. I know some posts were saying make sure it runs in IT mode for HBA cards and I remember reading about avoiding some Motherboard connectors so I wanted to see if people knew of an issue.
2. CPU cooler, do you think its enough, have contemplated getting a water block and doing a custom loop, but that I haven't done before either.
3. Cooling Putting more drives in, anyone have experience with if push out of case should create enough airflow to keep a server motherboard cool?
4. The drives I have heard that there are performance issues with various sizes for Virtual machines, vs Plex media serving. Should I have a separate pool for each? Even searching on the internet and here I have not found a decent answer. should I do 4 or 5 drives for a certain pool? I know to stay away from some of the WD Reds due to SMRs
5. With using the it for VM's, Should I get a SLOG, I have heard intel Optanes are good for this, and faster = better, so something like this 32gb optane should do?
thanks in advance for looking this over.
I am double checking things before I commit to my first actual NAS build.
Some background on use case
I have a media server with about 15tb right now, but its dirty, and not in any form of raid. Not good.
I also run a variety of servers some for managing the media, home assistant, and plex, others for Running Ansible Automation Platform for testing for work/learning, which is 6 vms all said and done. I've hit a memory bottleneck on my old ryzen with 64gb, So I was looking at TrueNas Scale as I could get my data in a better place, run the VMs and plex on a better system, and have room to run things like Openshift on VMs and learn there as well.
So the proposed setup is a
Motherboard Asrock Rack ROMED8-2T/BCM
CPU: EPYC 7302 or better if I can find a good deal
Memory: NEMIX RAM 256GB (4x64GB) DDR4-2400 LRDIMM 4Rx4
CPU cooler: Freezer 4U SP3
Case: Fractal define 7 xl
Drives 6x Seagate IronWolf NAS 12 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive in raidz2
I know that its not fully loaded out, and I can add more memory down the line, or even higher.
So A few questions that I haven't been able to answer.
1. The minSASHD ports, Are these good to run off of, or should I get an LSI, how about the occulus ports converted through cabling/things to SATA. I know some posts were saying make sure it runs in IT mode for HBA cards and I remember reading about avoiding some Motherboard connectors so I wanted to see if people knew of an issue.
2. CPU cooler, do you think its enough, have contemplated getting a water block and doing a custom loop, but that I haven't done before either.
3. Cooling Putting more drives in, anyone have experience with if push out of case should create enough airflow to keep a server motherboard cool?
4. The drives I have heard that there are performance issues with various sizes for Virtual machines, vs Plex media serving. Should I have a separate pool for each? Even searching on the internet and here I have not found a decent answer. should I do 4 or 5 drives for a certain pool? I know to stay away from some of the WD Reds due to SMRs
5. With using the it for VM's, Should I get a SLOG, I have heard intel Optanes are good for this, and faster = better, so something like this 32gb optane should do?
thanks in advance for looking this over.
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