Hardware - Check/Recommendation for my new HomeServer ...

[NRWler04]

Dear Community,

I want to remove from my Windows Home Server to a new system. After some testing, I realized that TrueNAS-Scale can provide me the same functionality as I'm using today with my Windows Server Essentials Role on a Windows Server Standard 2022.

The functionality I need is:

• Client BackUp : => will be UrBackUp in Docker
• Musik Streaming: => will be AssetUPnP in Docker
• TV-Server: => will be TVMosaic in Docker
• File Synchronisation: => will be Synchthing in Docker (are there alterrnatives? Today I'm using ViceVersa ....)
• File Server for
  • Live Data like
    • Musik
    • Dokuments (Word, PowerPoint, etc. ...)
    • CAD/KiCAD - Data
  • Archive/Movies
    • BluRay Movies
    • 4k UHD BlueRay Movies
    • Client Data Image & Data BackUp

For my "LiveData" today I have a Parity-Storage (like RAID-5) with 5 2TB SSD's which I want to move to a RaidZ with 5 new 2 TB SSD's.
My intention is to use the Western Digital - 2TB - Red SA500.

For my Archieve & Movies today I'm using a Parity-Storage with 5 8TB HDD's which I want to move to a RaidZ with 5 new 12TB HDD's.
My intention is to use the Western Digital - 12TB - Red Plus.

I found a nice small miniITX TowerCase from iStarUSA which gives me space for 16 2,5" SSD's and 5 3,5" HDD's.

As I need to use a miniITX Motherboard, I found this nice board from AsrockRack W680D4ID-2T.

• Supports 12th & 13th Gen Intel® Core™ series processors
• 4 DIMM slots (2DPC), supports DDR5 ECC/non-ECC UDIMM Memory
• 1 PCIe5.0 x16
• 1 OCuLink (PCIe4.0 x4), 1 OCuLink (PCIe4.0 x4 or 4 SATA 6Gb/s), 1 OCuLink (PCIe3.0 x4 or 4 SATA 6Gb/s)
• Supports 2 M.2 (PCIe4.0 x4)
• 8 SATA 6Gb/s
• 2 RJ45 (10GbE) by Intel X710-AT2

I want to use:

• CPU: intel i9-12900T (maybe a i9-13900T when available)
• RAM: Kingston 128GB ECC-RAM
• OS NVME (M.2#1): Samsung 256GB - PM9A1
• App-NVME (M.2#2): Samsung 256GB - PM9A1
• SAS-Controller: Broadcom HBA 9500-16i

I know, that I probably shoot sparrows with cannons, but I like to have fancy hardware.

My question is, is this HW selection ok for TrueNAS-Scale?

Do I need something for aditional L2ARC? Or is it not neccessary for my environment as a Media-Streaming System at home?

Best regards & Thanks for your feedback!

Ingo

 

[sretalla]

That motherboard seems to have a lot of good things going on, but I note it seems to not yet be released.

The newest generation CPUs aren't really supported in full, so don't expect to be able to run the efficiency cores.

I would suggest with the amount of RAM you're talking about, L2ARC won't be needed.

Be prepared to work out a way to back up your app NVME and system config regularly to account for device failure.

 

[NRWler04]

According the responsible seller in Germany, Motherboard should be available late February. That's in line with the required cashflow ...

How can I backup the System config and the App-NVME? This I figured not out so far .... just an early beginner on TrueNAS

 

[sretalla]

System config backup scripts are available on the forums (spearfoot's scripts are good, but also the multi-report from @joeschmuck, quick forum search should find those)

You could either use a replication task to backup the app pool to the "data" pool or to another box on your network with an rsync task if there's no other option.

 

[NRWler04]

Another question I have:

What about a shutdown-script? I want to shutdown the server every morning at 1:00 am.

What do I need to do?