can't decide

[blastik]

Hello,

I have a very old Synology NAS (more than 10 years) and I want to replace it with TrueNAS Scale. My usage will mostly be:

- backing up all home devices and family phone pictures
- photoprism
- pihole
- might add few jails to test other opensource stuff...
- i dont think i will be doing any video streaming but probably i'd download a movie time to time and wanna watch it from the chromecast.

Now, im doubting between two setups. They differ in 200€.

Option 1 (cheapest)

CPU	Intel® Core™ i3-9100F
Motherboard	ASUS P11C-I
RAM	Kingston Server Premier 16GB 2666 DDR4 ECC

This one is quite reasonable. And if the Xenon CPU's get cheaper at some point I can just upgrade the CPU

Option 2 (aprox. 200€ more expensive)

CPU	AMD RYZEN™ 5 5600 3.5 GHZ
Motherboard	Asrock Rack X470D4U
RAM	Kingston Server Premier 16GB 3200 DDR4 ECC

The reason behind going this way is because is obviously more powerful. But probably i'll be stuck with this CPU? Plus Ryzen 5600 has no official ECC support though.

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Both will have the following:

PSU	Corsair TX750M 80 plus gold
Case	Cooler Master Silencio S400
SSD	For boot. SSD M.2 not decided yet
HDD	4x Seagate IronWolf, 2 TB

Thank you in advance!

 

[sretalla]

Option 1 will be fine for your needs.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

TrueNAS SCALE does not support jails.

 

[MisterE2002]

TrueNAS SCALE does not support jails.

Correct, but i not sure that was meant by the topicstarter. If he just want to play with default containers it should suffice. Personally i really miss LXC. Currently you have to create your own layer on top of containers to create your own "flavor".