BUILD E3-1225v6 or D-2123IT, 10-bay NAS with Fractal Define Node 804

[Dacesilian]

Hello, I'm build a new NAS for home-usage and I want to hear your opinion and advice about chosen hardware.
I live in a small flat so my NAS will be placed on a fridge and it's only one door from my bedroom, so it should be quiet. I plan to shutdown drives at night and hope that fans will be quiet as well, but..

Case:
Anyway, I've chosen Fractal Define Node 804 as my chassis because it's quite tiny for that it has 10 bays for 3,5'' HDD - http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series/node-804 . Or is there any other "not-so-large" case for 10 HDDs? Hot-swap is a nice and Node 804 doesn't have it, but it's okay for home usage.

HDDs:
Plan to use 10x 3,5'' HDDs as a big ZFS pool, probably RAID-Z2. I think it would have enough speed for day-to-day work (loading photo thumbnails on Windows through Samba and 10G LAN, copying video files..) - is it okay? Or should I go with "RAID 10" (Striped Mirrored Vdev’s)? It's for home usage of 2-3 users, not many virtual machines.

Motherboard & CPU:
Would you buy:
Supermicro X11SSH-CTF - http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSH-CTF.cfm
Intel E3-1225 v6 - https://ark.intel.com/products/97476/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1225-v6-8M-Cache-3-30-GHz-
or embedded:
Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F - https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X11SDV-4C-TP8F.cfm ($140 more than E3 platform, but many 10G ethernets).

Power supply:
Is Seasonic Prime Ultra SSR-550GD2, 550W a good choise? I know some Seasonic PSU lines are crap and some are not.

Thank you!

 

[Ericloewe]

I know some Seasonic PSU lines are crap and some are not.

No, they're all good. The very low end ones are low-end, but they do what they claim.

Everything from the old G-Series up, which is now called Focus Plus or something like that, is good. Since your environment is a bit more complicated, you should probably go for the higher end Prime Platinum or Prime Titanium models.

I plan to shutdown drives at night

Not a good idea, but the noise is not going to make it through any door I've seen if you stick to typical NAS drives.

hope that fans will be quiet as well, but..

Noctua NF-F12s and NF-S12As are pretty quiet at up to lowish speeds (full speed in the latter case), certainly quiet enough for a door to render it inaudible. The NF-F12 industrialPPC models can get rather loud, but at their lowest PWM setting they're very quiet.

Plan to use 10x 3,5'' HDDs as a big ZFS pool, probably RAID-Z2. I think it would have enough speed for day-to-day work (loading photo thumbnails on Windows through Samba and 10G LAN, copying video files..) - is it okay?

Probably. Sequential operations should be pretty good over 10GbE.

Would you buy:
Supermicro X11SSH-CTF - http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C236_C232/X11SSH-CTF.cfm
Intel E3-1225 v6 - https://ark.intel.com/products/97476/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1225-v6-8M-Cache-3-30-GHz-
or embedded:
Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F - https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X11SDV-4C-TP8F.cfm ($140 more than E3 platform, but many 10G ethernets).

The Xeon E3 is likely to be faster and you have more flexibility when it comes to cooling, but the Xeon D is newer and probably uses less power than the X11SSH-CTF - the SAS2308 alone uses up some 10 W. Take your pick.

 

[pro lamer]

Me being Mr Obvious: The xeon D path might be also considered as I-want-more-RAM upgrade path (in future) and e1225 - might be replaced with a faster CPU (in future).

You can consider the number of PCIe slots/lanes too.

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[Ericloewe]

might be replaced with a faster CPU (in future).

It doesn't get much faster in that board, though.

 

[Stux]

Me being Mr Obvious: The xeon D path might be also considered as I-want-more-RAM upgrade path (in future) and e1225 - might be replaced with a faster CPU (in future).

You can consider the number of PCIe slots/lanes too.

Sent from my mobile phone

Xeon D makes sense if you want onboard 10gbe too.