Mightybiscuit
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Hi,
I'm hoping for some knowledgeable eyes to look over the hardware I have picked out list about building a TrueNAS box, my use case is:
Initial Build:
Below is a table of the potential upgrades:
So, are there any:
P.S. Are the miners back again, now that I look all the high wattage PSU's seem to be out of stock?!
I'm hoping for some knowledgeable eyes to look over the hardware I have picked out list about building a TrueNAS box, my use case is:
- NAS for documents, music, videos etc.
- Media Server (Jellyfin)
- Virtualisation/Homelab
- Cost
- Scalability
- Space
Initial Build:
Part | Product | Watt Estimate (W) | Price (GBP) |
Case | Azza Hurrican 2000 | 0 | 0 |
CPU | 2 x E5-2600 Quad/Hex Cores? | 160 | 20 |
Motherboard | SuperMicro X9DR3-LN4F+ | 25 | 150 |
Memory | 4 x 16GB ECC RDIMM DDR3 | 24 | 120 |
Storage | Already have: 1x Toshiba N300 8TB 1x WD My Book 10TB Going to add drives to create 2 pools: Pool 1: (Bulk Storage, mainly videos) 1x RAID Z1 vDev: 3x 10TB Pool 2: (Block Storage for VM's) 1x Mirror vDev: 2x 8TB | 165 | 450 |
Boot Drive | 16GB SuperMicro Sata DoM | 1 | 36 |
HBA | Built in to MoBo | 10 | 0 |
GPU? | Possibly wanted for transcoding (Jellyfin) | 25? | 50? |
Fans | Bunch of fans | 20 | 50 |
PSU | 850W | -850 | 100 |
Total | 430 | 976 |
- Case - I already have this, and it has 6 3.5" hot swap bays in the front, so despite the looks makes a good chassis for storage, and the yuge fans in the side panel are great for airflow around the PCI-e cards.
- CPU's - Unsure of the exact model, the quad/hex cores are almost being given away, leaves plenty of room to scale to the 8/10/12 cores when I need more horsepower. Leaning towards the v2 Ivy Bridge CPU's as there's a fair bit of power saving at idle and load, they don't appear to be more expensive either.
- Mobo - The SuperMicro X9 series boards seem to be where the value spot is at the moment in the UK, wouldn't have thought to look at dual socket boards were it not for the hardware guide, they are priced lower than the single sockets! This particular model has a quad NIC, Onboard SAS controller
- RAM - Little unsure about the best way to jump on this, can go 4x16GB or 8x8GB for quad channel, there doesn't appear to be much in it price wise, thought that 4x16GB is a little easier to add to bump up the capacity.
- Storage - Already have the 2 mentioned, looking to turn them into mirrors/Z1 with identical drives. Was considering more drives at lower capacity but the sweet spot for pricing appears to be up at 8-10TB at the moment.
- Boot - I was going to use mirrored USB drives, but the guide now counsels against this. Went with this since the motherboardf supports it, same price as devoting a cheap SSD to it anyway, and far more convienient.
- PSU - Used the guide to size up, obviously oversized for the initial build but I want to have the power there when I am adding more drives/RAM/thirstier CPU's.
Below is a table of the potential upgrades:
Part | Product | Watt Estimate (W) | Price (GBP) |
Case | Azza Hurrican 2000 | 0 | 0 |
CPU | 2 x E5-2600 8/10/12 Cores? | 260 | 180 |
Memory | 16 x 16GB ECC RDIMM DDR3 | 96 | ??? |
Storage | Pool 1: (Bulk Storage, mainly videos) 2x RAID Z1 vDev: 3x ?TB Pool 2: (Block Storage for VM's) 3x Mirror vDev: 2x ?TB Pool 3: (Faster VM Storage) ?x ?TB Sata SSD's | 350 | ??? |
Extra Drive Bays | 3x 5.25" to 5x 3.5" Hot Swap bay | 5? | 100 |
HBA | Additional PCI-e one for extra drives | 10 | 40 |
Networking | 10G NIC | 10 | 40 |
GPU? | Possibly wanted for transcoding (Jellyfin) | 25? | 50? |
PSU | 850W? | -850 | 100 |
Total | 780 |
So, are there any:
- Things I have overlooked?
- Is the pricing reasonable or are there better deals out there?
- Any other suggestions?
P.S. Are the miners back again, now that I look all the high wattage PSU's seem to be out of stock?!