I have been researching the hell out of this and ready to pull the trigger. But, I'd like ask the forum to see if you can spot anything I'm missing or just plain wrong.
I will be installing Scale (maybe Core) to replace my aging FreeNAS server running on an HP N40L. I want to be able to use 8 3.5" drives, 4 4TB Reds and 4 2TB Blacks. So, I settled on a motherboard with with 8 onboard SATA ports. I think I have 2 main concerns about the hardware I have in my shopping carts. The motherboard specs say that a SATA port is shared with the M.1 slot. So, I'm down to 7 ports. From reading on the TrueNAS forums, it seems the solution to that is buy an LSI HBA in IT mode.
The other question is regarding the power supply. I read up on that on the forums some, too. I'm no engineer. So, I don't trust myself to come up with an accurate assessment. I have built a few PC's over the years and just always picked a 750W PS to ensure I had headroom for additional hardware. I've never run into any problems. But, I understand that's not the best approach. The estimated wattage on pcpartpicker.com is 298W (not includding the LSI card). So, with that in mind, I put a Seasonic 650W Platinum PS in my cart. I can go with the 550W if that's better.
Thanks for taking the time to check over my selection. Here's the complete list I plan to pull the trigger on.
EDIT: Motherboard was no longer available. So, I switched it to the Supermicro. Had to switch memory to match. I hope it all works together. I did verify the ethernet is Intel. I just pulled the trigger. I'd still appreciate any comments while there's still time to make changes to orders.
I will be installing Scale (maybe Core) to replace my aging FreeNAS server running on an HP N40L. I want to be able to use 8 3.5" drives, 4 4TB Reds and 4 2TB Blacks. So, I settled on a motherboard with with 8 onboard SATA ports. I think I have 2 main concerns about the hardware I have in my shopping carts. The motherboard specs say that a SATA port is shared with the M.1 slot. So, I'm down to 7 ports. From reading on the TrueNAS forums, it seems the solution to that is buy an LSI HBA in IT mode.
The other question is regarding the power supply. I read up on that on the forums some, too. I'm no engineer. So, I don't trust myself to come up with an accurate assessment. I have built a few PC's over the years and just always picked a 750W PS to ensure I had headroom for additional hardware. I've never run into any problems. But, I understand that's not the best approach. The estimated wattage on pcpartpicker.com is 298W (not includding the LSI card). So, with that in mind, I put a Seasonic 650W Platinum PS in my cart. I can go with the 550W if that's better.
Thanks for taking the time to check over my selection. Here's the complete list I plan to pull the trigger on.
EDIT: Motherboard was no longer available. So, I switched it to the Supermicro. Had to switch memory to match. I hope it all works together. I did verify the ethernet is Intel. I just pulled the trigger. I'd still appreciate any comments while there's still time to make changes to orders.
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AsRock Rack E3C246D4U Micro ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1151 Intel C246- SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SCH-LN4F-O Micro ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1151 Intel C246
- Intel Xeon E-2146G Coffee Lake 3.5 GHz LGA 1151 80W BX80684E2146G Server Processor Intel UHD Graphics P630
- Western Digital WD Blue SN550 NVMe M.2 2280 500GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) WDS500G2B0C (boot drive - I know this is probably a little large for a boot drive, but it's only $49)
- Genuine LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA LSI 9201-8i (=9211-8i) P20 IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID
- (decided on the 550W)
Either theSeasonic Focus Platinum 550WORSeasonic Focus Platinum 650W (2 for 64G total)M391A4G43MB1-CTD - Samsung 1x 32GB DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM PC4-21300V-E Dual Rank x8 Module- (2 for 64G total) MEM-DR432L-SL01-EU26 - Supermicro 1x 32GB DDR4-2666 ECC UDIMM PC4-21300V-E Dual Rank x8 Replacement
- 4 WD Red Plus 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s, CMR, 128MB Cache, 3.5 Inch - WD40EFZX - OEM
- 4 WD Black 2TB (no link, these are existing drives)
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