lynchseattle
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Hi all,
I'm planning my first TrueNAS server and I really wanted to just double check that I'm not missing anything major in my assumptions and research.
Goal: The server is a home build and will be used for three primary purposes:
I'm planning my first TrueNAS server and I really wanted to just double check that I'm not missing anything major in my assumptions and research.
Goal: The server is a home build and will be used for three primary purposes:
- Photos. After a photo outing, sync my Lightroom catalogs on a thunderbolt drive I take with me on trips to a primary Lightroom catalog and photo repository where I may finish edits (and of course have my photos safely backed up).
- Videos. Light video production archival. I do photos much more, but there are some. I'd love to be able to edit from the server directly in Premiere Pro/After Effects.
- Music Production. I make music using Ableton with a multitrack recording setup. So this would be storing all of my music production samples, songs, and assets. The important part of this one is I occasionally multitrack write high res audio and then read back many tracks simultaneously.
- Motherboard: AsRock Rack X570D4U-2L2T mATX (w/2x Intel X550-AT2 10Gbe which I will be using for network)
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700X
- RAM: 2x 32GB Kingston Server Premier 3200MHz DDR4 ECC DIMM
- Boot Drive: Samsung 980 PRO SSD 500GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2
- Storage: 8x 16TB Seagate IronWolf
- Power Supply: Corsair RM850x 850W
- Case: Fractal Design Node 804
- RAIDZ2 Drive Configuration: I was thinking RAIDZ2 would give most comfort and reliability while also performing well on speed.
- Core vs Scale: I am planning to run TrueNAS Core. I don't really have any use cases for apps/VMs. I do have a Homebridge server for my house for automation, but I'm fine running that on a separate machine. I also am primarily focused on file speeds for the above uses cases and it seems Scale might inadvertantly interfere with my recording/reading. Maybe I'm incorrect on this.
- Boot Drive: Should I get a second Samsung for backup? Is this easy to do later or should I do from the start?
- Cache: Am I missing something around cache here given my use cases?
- Anything else missing?