HW compatibility

[N3ste]

Hello, I would like to know your opinion about the nas I want to build and whether ECC will work on it. I will mainly use the NAS for storing photos, videos from my main PC, for Plex and learning Linux. It will be on 24/7.
MB: MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX 67$
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600(I will eventually upgrade to Ryzen 5 3600) 45$
RAM: 2x Micron MTA18ASF4G72AZ-3G2B1 165$
SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 - 120GB (from my old pc) 0$
HDD: 5x Seagate Ironwolf 4 TB (ST4000VN008) (now only 4HDDs) 328$(410$ 5xHDDs)
PSU: EVGA 850 GQ(it's lying in my closet, I have no use for it) 112$
HBA: LSI 9240-8i 6Gbps SAS(IT mode)

In time, I would add a graphics card for HW encoding.

Please give me some advice if there is something wrong with this configuration.

 

[Davvo]

Your motherboard doesn't support ECC RAM in ECC mode, and has a Realtek NIC.

Is my Realtek ethernet really that bad?

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HDD: 5x Seagate Ironwolf 4 TB (ST4000VN008) (now only 4HDDs) 328$(410$ 5xHDDs)

You can't expand a RAIDZ vdev once you create it.

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I would suggest you to change your choice of motherboard.

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You also want to have a pair of SSD in mirror for you apps/jails and VMs.
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[danb35]

GAMING

No. Just, no. There's a reason we have a hardware recommendations guide.

 

[N3ste]

Any suggestions on an AM4 socket motherboard that supports ECC and $150?

 

[sretalla]

Looks to me that all the cheap boards (under $150) have only Realtek NICs, so won't recommend any of those.

There seem to be some in the $300 range that hit all the requirements (AM4, ECC, Intel NIC)

 

[Whattteva]

I'd look into used server gear if you want affordable ECC honestly. Either that, or used 9th gen i3 since that's the last i3 SKU to have ECC support built-in. In fact, for home use, especially if you are looking to run Plex, 9th-gen i3 is likely better than the Xeons as they come with an iGPU with QuickSync support.

 

[Davvo]

Used X11SSL-F from germany near €150 on eBay.
You can slap a i3-6100 (used they come for 20ish euros I believe) and be happy with Dual GbE LAN with Intel® i210-AT, Integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with Dedicated LAN, Up to 64GB Unbuffered ECC UDIMM DDR4, 6 SATA3 ports and good expansion slots (2 PCIe 3.0 x8 and 1 PCIe 3.0 x4). Only drawback, you get no M2.