Maximilious
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- Jun 20, 2023
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Hey All,
Well I'm finally fed up enough with QNAP to get my hands dirty and build my very own first ever server. Two different units died on me after 3 years and 2.5 years respectively and if I'm going to throw more $$$ at a solution it might as well be one I have control over! If I had know years ago when starting my homelab what I know now I would have gone the FreeNAS/TrueNAS route, but we're here now.
I'm looking to build a custom rackmount but I'm limited in what I can do because my rack is only 22" deep. I did find what I think is a viable solution in components, but before committing I figured it would be best to post here first.
My current QNAP is running five 10TB Ironwolf drives in a RAID5 and comprised of about 30TB of data in the 35TB pool (When moving to Truenas Scale I'd purchase a sixth and move it to RAIDZ-2 volume). I'm also running my Plex server from the QNAP with an Nvidia GTX 1050Ti.
I'll be moving the data over to six 8TB drives I have for the move, and I'd like to move the Nvidia video card to the new build and utilize Plex in a container (or are they jails in TrueNAS?). This unit would connect up to my network via 10GB fiber - I already have the SFP's and cable for that on hand to go with the motherboard.
Here's the build I've come up with:
Case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BTY185DY
Motherboard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07534B8FS
CPU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V3SWL51
RAM: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094DTKB88
PSU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W47MX46
Heatsink: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091HQJ1M1
SAS Cables: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017CO6JRO
USB to SATA Cable (Optional for boot drive mirror): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011M8YACM
A few questions I have about the build:
P.S. - First Post! Hello TrueNAS Community!
Well I'm finally fed up enough with QNAP to get my hands dirty and build my very own first ever server. Two different units died on me after 3 years and 2.5 years respectively and if I'm going to throw more $$$ at a solution it might as well be one I have control over! If I had know years ago when starting my homelab what I know now I would have gone the FreeNAS/TrueNAS route, but we're here now.
I'm looking to build a custom rackmount but I'm limited in what I can do because my rack is only 22" deep. I did find what I think is a viable solution in components, but before committing I figured it would be best to post here first.
My current QNAP is running five 10TB Ironwolf drives in a RAID5 and comprised of about 30TB of data in the 35TB pool (When moving to Truenas Scale I'd purchase a sixth and move it to RAIDZ-2 volume). I'm also running my Plex server from the QNAP with an Nvidia GTX 1050Ti.
I'll be moving the data over to six 8TB drives I have for the move, and I'd like to move the Nvidia video card to the new build and utilize Plex in a container (or are they jails in TrueNAS?). This unit would connect up to my network via 10GB fiber - I already have the SFP's and cable for that on hand to go with the motherboard.
Here's the build I've come up with:
Case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BTY185DY
Motherboard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07534B8FS
CPU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V3SWL51
RAM: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094DTKB88
PSU: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W47MX46
Heatsink: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091HQJ1M1
SAS Cables: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017CO6JRO
USB to SATA Cable (Optional for boot drive mirror): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011M8YACM
A few questions I have about the build:
- Will it work?
- I believe all the components will go together nicely but a second (or thousand) set of eyes can never hurt.
- Memory Amount - Is it too much?
- I've read about deduplication memory consumption for the table but I'm not certain how much would really be in use. I just reinstalled my repaired QNAP with QuTS Hero for ZFS support and memory consumption doesn't seem that large even though I have deduplication turned on for about 10TB of data (2GB of 32 used currently). Is it only consumed for the amount of data that's deduped, or the size of the volume as a whole?
- SATA DOM vs M.2 vs USB SATA for the Scale OS
- I searched a bit and it seems there's not much concern for the OS performance/speed. Is this also the case if using deduplication? Would a USB SATA mirror perform just as well as an M.2 for the OS?
- I'd hate to let the M.2 slot go to waste, would there be any issue setting it up with a mirror on another drive for the OS, or possibly read cache?
- Drive Identification
- This is my first time building a server from scratch using SAS cables. I had to do some reading to even figure out that SAS and SATA are very similar! What's the best way to identify which drive bay corresponds to the correct port identifier on the motherboard? This is a HUGE concern for me in the event of drive failure.
- Drive Capacity Limit
- How can I know what the capacity limit is of this build? Perhaps this is my traditional way of thinking, but certain NAS devices have an upper limit of the amount of TB/PB they can host - what dictates this limit?
- Video Card and Plex
- I just saw a recent post on the forum regarding the need for two video cards to pass through to a VM on TrueNAS. I assume using the video card for hardware transcoding in a container/jail would work without issue but I want to ask the question to ensure no issue.
P.S. - First Post! Hello TrueNAS Community!