Hello,
I am putting together my first homelab and wanted a sanity check from you guys.
Usage:
I am planning to run a RAIDz2 with 6 disks not mirrored, I will not have critical data on the NAS so I don't see the benefit of mirroring (except for increased read performances) I am tempted to buy 6x14TB easystore and shuck them. I read a lot of pros and cons about this practice, is it really a no-go?
Several questions :
Best!
I am putting together my first homelab and wanted a sanity check from you guys.
Usage:
- 1-2 Users
- Couple of VMs
- Plex with hardware transcoding
- CPU : Xeon E-2142G or E-2242G
- CPU cooler : Noctua NH-L12S
- MB : X11SCL-F (or ASUS WS-C246M-PRO since it has 8 SATA port)
- RAM : Samsung M391A2K43BB1 DDR4-2400 16G x2
- Case : Fractal Design Node 804
- PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 500 W
- Boot +VMs : Sabrent 256GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 x2 mirrored
I am planning to run a RAIDz2 with 6 disks not mirrored, I will not have critical data on the NAS so I don't see the benefit of mirroring (except for increased read performances) I am tempted to buy 6x14TB easystore and shuck them. I read a lot of pros and cons about this practice, is it really a no-go?
Several questions :
- The X11SCL-F supports Xeon E-22xx after a BIOS update (1.0b), do you recommend a cheap compatible CPU to do the update?
- ASUS WS-C246M-PRO seems a better option for MOBO (8 SATA) but lacks IPMI how critical is this?
- Do you have a recommendation for a PCIe card that can hold 2 NVMe? Is mirroring the boot that important?
- I am not convinced by the case selection, I am looking for something with a relatively low profile but not in the server rack format
- Is an HBA card an absolute must have?
- Since TrueNAS scale has been in beta I was planing to use that. I am more familiar with linux and HW transcoding will be supported out of the box. Is it a no-go for any production systems?
Best!