Hello! I am an enthusiast from Lancaster PA. My goal started out to simply get rid of things like Icloud, and after a discussion with a colleague in IT about TrueNAS and all the other things you can do with it, am now planning on running PLEX as well as a VM or two. would like to be able to transcode 4k video if needed
If ya'll don't mind, I would appreciate it if you could sanity-check my current build list I'd appreciate it!
Case: I have a home studio with plenty of rack space, so I'd really like to go rackmount. However, my goal is to not be too loud, and I also don't want to be paying 150$ in additional electric lol. So for that reason I was planning on building my own server VS. just buying a refurb'd Dell or something. I'm thinking something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Chassis-Support-Rackmount-RSV-L4412U/dp/B097Y25FGK?th=1
MOBO: I'm thinking X11SSM-F
CPU: this is where I could use some input: do I go Pentium 4400/4600/5500, or do I go i3 6300/8300?
Ram: ECC, of course,prolly gonna start with 16GB and if I need more I'll still have plenty of room
Power supply: haven't done the numbers, but a seasonic 80+ gold most likely.
drives: prolly WD red+, will prolly start with 6 drives running raid1, maybe 2tb or 4tb haven't decided yet.
Will this system be good enough for my use case? Will I need a GPU for transcoding? approximately what will power draw look like?
thanks in advance! this forum has already been so helpful.
If ya'll don't mind, I would appreciate it if you could sanity-check my current build list I'd appreciate it!
Case: I have a home studio with plenty of rack space, so I'd really like to go rackmount. However, my goal is to not be too loud, and I also don't want to be paying 150$ in additional electric lol. So for that reason I was planning on building my own server VS. just buying a refurb'd Dell or something. I'm thinking something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-Chassis-Support-Rackmount-RSV-L4412U/dp/B097Y25FGK?th=1
MOBO: I'm thinking X11SSM-F
CPU: this is where I could use some input: do I go Pentium 4400/4600/5500, or do I go i3 6300/8300?
Ram: ECC, of course,prolly gonna start with 16GB and if I need more I'll still have plenty of room
Power supply: haven't done the numbers, but a seasonic 80+ gold most likely.
drives: prolly WD red+, will prolly start with 6 drives running raid1, maybe 2tb or 4tb haven't decided yet.
Will this system be good enough for my use case? Will I need a GPU for transcoding? approximately what will power draw look like?
thanks in advance! this forum has already been so helpful.