sangmoklee
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Dear respected forum members,
I am trying to come up with a list of components for a TrueNAS scale home media server + home office storage. I currently have about 25TB sitting on my old TrueNAS Core server and it is becoming quite full. So this is what I have so far:
Here are the questions:
1. Even though my current NAS server has ECC memories, the CPU does not support it, so it is no use. I did find out that I need a CPU that supports ECC after I built it. For the new one, I am choosing AMD over Intel because ECC is available at a much lower cost. Xeon is too expensive for me to build. When I have it built, how do I find out whether ECC is working or not?
2. ASRock FATAL1TY B450 Gaming K4 specs states that it supports ECC, and I read that Ryzen Pro 4650G support it too. Do I need to check anything else to make sure ECC works?
3. Will I be able to pass-through AMD's iGPU to Plex on TrueNAS scale?
4. Since I am going to be using iGPU, I probably need 64GB of memory total. If I have 32GB, iGPU will probably use 16GB and the rest 16GB seems too small because even my current system uses 14.2GB out of 16GB on jails. Or can I get away with 32GB in total?
5. I am going to use on-board SATA controller, and if I get more than 6 drives, I will add a controller for additional HDDs. Do I need a better SATA controller? I read that using multiple controller shouldn't be a problem, but are there any issues I should expect for using multiple controllers?
6. Do I really want Scale over Core? For using Plex, Scale seems to be a better choice, since I won't be able to use graphics HW acceleration with AMD+Core.
I will appreciate any insightful inputs. Please consider that I am not very fluent in UNIX commands. I can do cd, ls, apt get, rm, chmod, and copying commands from manuals and forums, but that's about it. Therefore, I will be mostly using preconfigured plugins instead of installing the services from scratch.
Thank you very much in advance!
I am trying to come up with a list of components for a TrueNAS scale home media server + home office storage. I currently have about 25TB sitting on my old TrueNAS Core server and it is becoming quite full. So this is what I have so far:
CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G (Renoir) |
Motherboard | ASRock FATAL1TY B450 Gaming K4 |
Memory | 2x Samsung DDR4 32G PC4-25600 ECC Unbuffered or 2x Kingston DDR 16G PC4-25600 ECC Unbuffered |
HDD | 6x or 8x WD Ultrastar 18TB DC HC550 WUH721818ALE6L4 |
SSD | 1x Transcend MTE110S Series M.2 NVMe 2280 128GB 3D TLC |
Power Supply | 750W |
SATA Controller | 1x Marvell 88SE9215 4Port SATA III Controller |
Ethernet Adapter | 1x Realtek RTL8125B 2.5Gbps Ethernet Adapter |
Here are the questions:
1. Even though my current NAS server has ECC memories, the CPU does not support it, so it is no use. I did find out that I need a CPU that supports ECC after I built it. For the new one, I am choosing AMD over Intel because ECC is available at a much lower cost. Xeon is too expensive for me to build. When I have it built, how do I find out whether ECC is working or not?
2. ASRock FATAL1TY B450 Gaming K4 specs states that it supports ECC, and I read that Ryzen Pro 4650G support it too. Do I need to check anything else to make sure ECC works?
3. Will I be able to pass-through AMD's iGPU to Plex on TrueNAS scale?
4. Since I am going to be using iGPU, I probably need 64GB of memory total. If I have 32GB, iGPU will probably use 16GB and the rest 16GB seems too small because even my current system uses 14.2GB out of 16GB on jails. Or can I get away with 32GB in total?
5. I am going to use on-board SATA controller, and if I get more than 6 drives, I will add a controller for additional HDDs. Do I need a better SATA controller? I read that using multiple controller shouldn't be a problem, but are there any issues I should expect for using multiple controllers?
6. Do I really want Scale over Core? For using Plex, Scale seems to be a better choice, since I won't be able to use graphics HW acceleration with AMD+Core.
I will appreciate any insightful inputs. Please consider that I am not very fluent in UNIX commands. I can do cd, ls, apt get, rm, chmod, and copying commands from manuals and forums, but that's about it. Therefore, I will be mostly using preconfigured plugins instead of installing the services from scratch.
Thank you very much in advance!