Building a new rig. Does it look ok?

[CraftyClown]

Hi fellas,

For the past couple or years my Freenas box has been an old Dell T5500 workstation with a Hex core xeon processor. I can't fault it performance wise, however it's just a bit too big, powerful and noisy for my home media server requirements, so I thought it was about time to build something that better suits my needs.

So I've done a bit of reading and I've built my shopping list, but I thought I should run it past you learned folk first, just in case there is some kind of potential issue I haven't considered

Fractal design 605 £114.00
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3IRU7Q642HWMA

Corsair SF450 £70
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

SuperMicro X10SLH-F £227.00
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...sfl_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2NN8A368BH84D

Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 £228.00
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...sfl_title_5?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

Crucial 32 gg ECC ram £146.00
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...sfl_title_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

I already have 4 x 4tb WD red drives that I'm bringing over from the dell. I may upgrade these to 4 x 6tb reds at some stage, but I'm fine for now.

Anything look out of place, or just plain wrong?

Cheers
Rich

 

[SweetAndLow]

Any reasoning going with haswell vs the newer skylake? With sky lake your max memory would be 64gig which will give you room to grow

 

[CraftyClown]

The honest truth is I was following some of the suggested hardware guides on these forums, which is how I landed on the motherboard and processor. There is also the fact this box will always be 80% media server and 20% file server, so I presumed 32gig would be more than adequate for my needs. I'm going to guess there will also be a fair hike in price going with Skylake over Haswell? Or is the difference negligible?

 

[Dice]

there will also be a fair hike in price going with Skylake over Haswell?

Probably depends on where you look. Currently in Sweden, the difference is about 60-100USD. Keeping in mind that sweet 64GB of memory a head, makes it well worth. Check on the forums what peoples previous specs were - many people upgrade from 16gb systems. In a year or two I predict a lot more users will be looking 'away' from 32Gb systems, where the new standard will be 64GB Skylakes replacing the current 'hardware guide'. The logic behind the hardware guide is to stay away from bleeding edge hardware to avoid new users to get caught in hassles with their first FreeNAS experience. I'd say that since FreeNAS 9.10 there are no reasons to stick with Haswell, Skylake is where we are at now.

Cheers /