I have been reading these forums for awhile now learning all about zfs and have decided to finally move forward. This build proposal is going to sound a bit crazy and mismatched, but it is only because I am trying to reuse server parts I got on the cheap. A friend sold me his Intel 3rd gen Ice Lake (8360) for super cheap along with some ddr4 ecc memory so I am trying to figure out how to use it. It seems overkill for a nas build but would the following work? Black Friday is coming up so I hope to buy six (18tb to 22tb) drives depending on sales. I found a Tyan server motherboard with IPMI that can run this processor for only $300. Originally these were $900 boards but it is for a 2 year old processor.
My use case is primarily as a plex server and to store pics/videos that are personal. I want a ton of storage and plan to backup to external usb drives occasionally as well as my most important stuff online and encrypted. I don't expect the system to get a ton of heavy usage so the storage performance isn't as important as data redundancy so I don't have to deal with trying to restore from backups. I plan to add up to four 4k cameras to record h.265 compressed videos to the storage as some point next year. I also plan to add a GPU to do AI video object detection on my cameras, but initially I won't have that. Unfortunately, in my house I only have 1Gbit networking. The house has 20 year old cat5 cables, so it is lucky I can even get Gbit. This somewhat complicates how I will do video recording and networking so that I am not congesting my network for everything. I have some ideas on how to redo the networking that I will deal with in the future. I know this system is way over powered for my use case, but if I can do AI object detection using just CPU cores on a smaller video that might make it so I don't ever even need a GPU.
Case: Fractal Design R4 -- This is my case from 12 years ago but other than a few dents is good enough. I am going to add another fan to the back of the case to pull air through better.
Board: TYAN S5642AGM3NRE-2T SSI CEB Server Motherboard LGA 4189 Intel C621A I checked forums online and measured and think this will fit my case. It has a dedicated mgmt port.
Power Supply: 1200w EVGA -- A bit of overkill but I already have it from another build I did not finish.
CPU: Intel Ice Lake (8360)
CPU fan: Not sure but I'll get something that fits the 4189 socket. I couldn't find a water cooling solution for this.
GPU: Nothing for now but hope to add something in the future.
Memory: 128GB ddr4 ECC
Drives: TBD but I am initially planning 6 x 20tb in a raidz2 setup.
Cables: Pretty sure I will need two of the mini SAS to 4 Sata cables.
Software Setup
I plan to use Truenas Scale. I plan to start with my 6 drive array as a raidz2 in just one vdev. If I ever need more storage I hope that the raidz expansion is fully integrated and working. At that point I will just add another disk or two and expand the vdev. That probably won't happen for 3 years or so. If a drive ever goes bad, I will just buy a new one online and replace hoping that 2 more drives don't fail in the meantime.
The one big open I have is the boot drive and some of the more advanced zfs setups. I have a 600GB SSD I will use for that. I've not really researched this part yet to see if there is anything I really need to do. I saw some people will use a drive as a cache for ZFS. That part is a little fuzzy to me that I think I can figure out once I start setting everything up.
Is there anything I am missing in this? I've never build a NAS storage server. I think this setup is going to cost me less than a similar Qnap/Synology enclosure with 6 bays but with way more performance, expansion capability, and of course power consumption will be higher as well as the overall system bigger and noisier.
My use case is primarily as a plex server and to store pics/videos that are personal. I want a ton of storage and plan to backup to external usb drives occasionally as well as my most important stuff online and encrypted. I don't expect the system to get a ton of heavy usage so the storage performance isn't as important as data redundancy so I don't have to deal with trying to restore from backups. I plan to add up to four 4k cameras to record h.265 compressed videos to the storage as some point next year. I also plan to add a GPU to do AI video object detection on my cameras, but initially I won't have that. Unfortunately, in my house I only have 1Gbit networking. The house has 20 year old cat5 cables, so it is lucky I can even get Gbit. This somewhat complicates how I will do video recording and networking so that I am not congesting my network for everything. I have some ideas on how to redo the networking that I will deal with in the future. I know this system is way over powered for my use case, but if I can do AI object detection using just CPU cores on a smaller video that might make it so I don't ever even need a GPU.
Case: Fractal Design R4 -- This is my case from 12 years ago but other than a few dents is good enough. I am going to add another fan to the back of the case to pull air through better.
Board: TYAN S5642AGM3NRE-2T SSI CEB Server Motherboard LGA 4189 Intel C621A I checked forums online and measured and think this will fit my case. It has a dedicated mgmt port.
Power Supply: 1200w EVGA -- A bit of overkill but I already have it from another build I did not finish.
CPU: Intel Ice Lake (8360)
CPU fan: Not sure but I'll get something that fits the 4189 socket. I couldn't find a water cooling solution for this.
GPU: Nothing for now but hope to add something in the future.
Memory: 128GB ddr4 ECC
Drives: TBD but I am initially planning 6 x 20tb in a raidz2 setup.
Cables: Pretty sure I will need two of the mini SAS to 4 Sata cables.
Software Setup
I plan to use Truenas Scale. I plan to start with my 6 drive array as a raidz2 in just one vdev. If I ever need more storage I hope that the raidz expansion is fully integrated and working. At that point I will just add another disk or two and expand the vdev. That probably won't happen for 3 years or so. If a drive ever goes bad, I will just buy a new one online and replace hoping that 2 more drives don't fail in the meantime.
The one big open I have is the boot drive and some of the more advanced zfs setups. I have a 600GB SSD I will use for that. I've not really researched this part yet to see if there is anything I really need to do. I saw some people will use a drive as a cache for ZFS. That part is a little fuzzy to me that I think I can figure out once I start setting everything up.
Is there anything I am missing in this? I've never build a NAS storage server. I think this setup is going to cost me less than a similar Qnap/Synology enclosure with 6 bays but with way more performance, expansion capability, and of course power consumption will be higher as well as the overall system bigger and noisier.
