matthias8422
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I have been planning on building a general purpose home server for some time now and have been researching it for a while. I finally decided to go with TrueNAS Scale as the OS, both due to the community feelings towards the OS as well as its open source nature. (Scale over Core due to the ability o run VMs)
I plan to use this server to run TrueNAS, Plex, multiple different gaming servers, some Windows/linux VM's as well as other random applications i may find and want to use. Based upon this criteria i believe i need a more powerful system than is recommended for TrueNAS just due to all the extra applications that will be running.
I am still unsure if ECC RAM is required or just highly recommended due to the ZFS file system, but just in case i speced out some ECC ram, if its not required i can always find some compatible non-ECC RAM later.
Currently i have the following for my build
Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X12SCA-5F-O
CPU: Intel Xeon W-1370
RAM: 2x Kingston Server Premier 32GB DDR4 SDRAM Memory Module KSM26ED832HC (i will upgrade to 4x in the future)
Graphics: CPU has built in and i dont currently see a need for a card
Boot: i have an extra 2TB ssd that i will probably use (if VM images are stored on the boot drive, probably buy a 120GB ssd if not)
HDD: Seagate Exos X16 ST14000NM001G 14TB (probably 4-6 to start in raidz1 with 1 as a hot spare in case of failure since they are referb drives, eventually expanding to fill all 10+2 bays of the case)
Case: Sliger Cx4712
Cache drive: im not sure if this is needed, lots of conflicting information on this, any incite would be helpful.
Nic: on board, if i need extra speed (probably not) Intel X520-DA2
I will also eventually get a PCIE sata expansion card similar to this one once i expand past the motherboards sata ports (6)
all in all its about 1100 for everything minus the drives which i currently plan to buy refurbished about $140 per.
What do you guys think, first time building a server like this so any incite would be helpful.
I plan to use this server to run TrueNAS, Plex, multiple different gaming servers, some Windows/linux VM's as well as other random applications i may find and want to use. Based upon this criteria i believe i need a more powerful system than is recommended for TrueNAS just due to all the extra applications that will be running.
I am still unsure if ECC RAM is required or just highly recommended due to the ZFS file system, but just in case i speced out some ECC ram, if its not required i can always find some compatible non-ECC RAM later.
Currently i have the following for my build
Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X12SCA-5F-O
CPU: Intel Xeon W-1370
RAM: 2x Kingston Server Premier 32GB DDR4 SDRAM Memory Module KSM26ED832HC (i will upgrade to 4x in the future)
Graphics: CPU has built in and i dont currently see a need for a card
Boot: i have an extra 2TB ssd that i will probably use (if VM images are stored on the boot drive, probably buy a 120GB ssd if not)
HDD: Seagate Exos X16 ST14000NM001G 14TB (probably 4-6 to start in raidz1 with 1 as a hot spare in case of failure since they are referb drives, eventually expanding to fill all 10+2 bays of the case)
Case: Sliger Cx4712
Cache drive: im not sure if this is needed, lots of conflicting information on this, any incite would be helpful.
Nic: on board, if i need extra speed (probably not) Intel X520-DA2
I will also eventually get a PCIE sata expansion card similar to this one once i expand past the motherboards sata ports (6)
all in all its about 1100 for everything minus the drives which i currently plan to buy refurbished about $140 per.
What do you guys think, first time building a server like this so any incite would be helpful.