Hello all,
This will be my first freenas build; I wanted to make sure everything checked out before I committed and completed the build (already have the WD Red drives and Case). I'd like the box to be able to serve as a centralized home file server/media library, and run plex with a max of 3-4 concurrent transcoding streams.
Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SSM-F-O Micro ATX
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 SkyLake 3.4 GHz [BX80662E31230V5]
Ram: (2x) Samsung 16GB ECC DDR4 UDIMMs [M391A2K43BB1-CPB]
HDD: (8x) WD Red 3TB 5400 RPM HDDs [WD30EFRX], to be run in RaidZ2
Boot Device: (2x) SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drives [SDCZ33-016G-B35]
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650W 80+ gold [220-G2-0650-Y1]
Case: Fractal Design Define R5
The questions:
1) (The obvious one): Any glaring problems?
2) I suspect this may be somewhat overbuilt for my needs, anywhere you think I can save a bundle while still accomplishing the described end-use? I think I could probably shave ~100-150$ off the build without straying too far from the recommended components list, but I feel the savings come at considerable costs in future upgradability, power efficiency, and general value.
3) As a possible alternative to this build I've toyed with the idea of going with an ASRock C2750D4I mobo as a lower power & noise option, but the relatively low PassMark score of ~3800 seems to indicate I might run into problems with multiple concurrent transcodes. Could anyone with experience running plex on this board chime in on their experiences? (FYI: the media files to be transcoded are uncompressed mkv bluray rips).
This will be my first freenas build; I wanted to make sure everything checked out before I committed and completed the build (already have the WD Red drives and Case). I'd like the box to be able to serve as a centralized home file server/media library, and run plex with a max of 3-4 concurrent transcoding streams.
Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SSM-F-O Micro ATX
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 SkyLake 3.4 GHz [BX80662E31230V5]
Ram: (2x) Samsung 16GB ECC DDR4 UDIMMs [M391A2K43BB1-CPB]
HDD: (8x) WD Red 3TB 5400 RPM HDDs [WD30EFRX], to be run in RaidZ2
Boot Device: (2x) SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drives [SDCZ33-016G-B35]
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650W 80+ gold [220-G2-0650-Y1]
Case: Fractal Design Define R5
The questions:
1) (The obvious one): Any glaring problems?
2) I suspect this may be somewhat overbuilt for my needs, anywhere you think I can save a bundle while still accomplishing the described end-use? I think I could probably shave ~100-150$ off the build without straying too far from the recommended components list, but I feel the savings come at considerable costs in future upgradability, power efficiency, and general value.
3) As a possible alternative to this build I've toyed with the idea of going with an ASRock C2750D4I mobo as a lower power & noise option, but the relatively low PassMark score of ~3800 seems to indicate I might run into problems with multiple concurrent transcodes. Could anyone with experience running plex on this board chime in on their experiences? (FYI: the media files to be transcoded are uncompressed mkv bluray rips).