New Build for first timer Opinions / Suggestion?

[Shadowtester]

This build will be for a AOI NAS server for 1080p + media serving for Kodi 1 to 2 streams at a time with possible 4k trans-coding and streaming in future along with a Sabnzb+ and Sonarr servers. May also use for a single linux vm as well. The 5 WD Red 8TB drives will be in a zraid pool for media storage with 5 more SATAIII slots open for future expansion. Opinions and or suggestions are requested and welcome please.

Hardware list

• Fractal Design Node 804 Chassis
• Supermicro X10SL7-F Motherboard
• Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU
• 4 x Samsung DDR3 1.35v-1600 M391B1G73QH0 RAM
• 32GB SATA III 2.5" SSD for boot
• 2 x 32GB SATA III 2.5 SSD for jails and vm
• EVGA Super Nova 650W 220-G2
• 5 x Western Digital 8TB Red HDD with expansion room for 5 additional drives in future
• 2 x ENERMAX T.B. Silence UCTB12P Case Fan
• 3x Noctua NF-P14s redux-1200 Case Fan

Thank You in advance!

 

[SavageAUS]

You may want more than 4 x 8gb ram. The rest to me seems ok.
Apparently wiring up the back 2 hard drives in that case is a pita.

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[Shadowtester]

This motherboard only supports a max of 32gb ram its the boards weakness the VM's will not be used much more for data transfer to the new zfs pool from my old Linux data server drives.

 

[SavageAUS]

I run 32gb ram just fine but I don't have as much storage. That was with 4 dockers/jails and 1 vm

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[SavageAUS]

Can you post pics of the build process in that case please, I would like to get one.

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[Ericloewe]

Why Haswell and not Skylake? All things being equal, Skylake is notably better, starting with support for 64GB of RAM.

 

[Shadowtester]

The number of SATA ports available on this mother board 10 SATA III and 4 SATA II that is hard to beat at this price range < $ 250.00 usd.

 

[Ericloewe]

Have you priced out the X11SSL-CF?

 

[Shadowtester]

The problem with that board is it only has 6 SATA III ports I wanted a board with at least 10 SATA III ports and at least 1 additional SATA II or better port.

 

[Ericloewe]

The problem with that board is it only has 6 SATA III ports I wanted a board with at least 10 SATA III ports and at least 1 additional SATA II or better port.

No, it has six SATA ports and eight SAS ports, just like the X10SL7-F.

 

[Shadowtester]

I missed the 8 SAS ports I will look into changing the motherboard cpu and memory to evaluate the cost difference.

Thank you!

 

[diedrichg]

The read/write on >=128 GB SSD will be significantly faster than 32GB versions. If the price isn't that different then you should go that direction. Plus, I bet you will find yourself QUICKLY running out of storage on them.

 

[Shadowtester]

The major cost difference would be ram could start with 2 16gb sticks and then upgrade to 2 more later for a total of 64gb

 

[Shadowtester]

The read/write on >=128 GB SSD will be significantly faster than 32GB versions. If the price isn't that different then you should go that direction. Plus, I bet you will find yourself QUICKLY running out of storage on them.

The SSD would only be used for the plugin jails and maybe initial vm for data transfer from old systems hdds.

 

[Shadowtester]

Updated build

Hardware list

• Fractal Design Node 804 Chassis
• Supermicro X11SSL-CF Motherboard
• Xeon E3-1230 v5 CPU
• 4 x Samsung M391A2K43BB1-CPB 16GB DDR4-2133 RAM 2 sticks initially
• 32GB SATA III 2.5" SSD for boot
• 2 x 256GB SATA III 2.5 SSD for jails and vm
• EVGA Super Nova 650W 220-G2
• 5 x Western Digital 8TB Red HDD with expansion room for 5 additional drives in future
• 2 x ENERMAX T.B. Silence UCTB12P Case Fan
• 3x Noctua NF-P14s redux-1200 Case Fan

Thanks more opinions / suggestions welcome to help refine / optimize the hardware for the build

 

[wblock]

The read/write on >=128 GB SSD will be significantly faster than 32GB versions. If the price isn't that different then you should go that direction. Plus, I bet you will find yourself QUICKLY running out of storage on them.

Maybe not quickly, but the extra space on a 120GB SSD would allow keeping lots of boot environments from updates and have a much greater write endurance. People feel like the extra space is wasted, but it's not. Now, if that 32GB SSD costs substantially less than a 120GB, maybe. But the difference is like $20-$30.

 

[diedrichg]

The read/write on >=128 GB SSD will be significantly faster than 32GB versions. If the price isn't that different then you should go that direction. Plus, I bet you will find yourself QUICKLY running out of storage on them.

Maybe not quickly, but the extra space on a 120GB SSD would allow keeping lots of boot environments from updates and have a much greater write endurance. People feel like the extra space is wasted, but it's not. Now, if that 32GB SSD costs substantially less than a 120GB, maybe. But the difference is like $20-$30.

Not to argue, but once you get into less than 128 GB, the speeds drop off significantly - not much faster than HDD speeds if I remember right.

 

[Ericloewe]

Yeah, even the 128GB models are slowish these days, since NAND dies have grown in capacity. The major source of speed for SSDs is using a whole bunch of NAND dies in parallel, since a single one isn't that fast (as evidenced by your average USB flash drive or SD card).

 

[wblock]

Not to argue, but once you get into less than 128 GB, the speeds drop off significantly - not much faster than HDD speeds if I remember right.

You're not arguing, you're agreeing. Smaller SSDs have relatively low write speeds, but still have much better read speeds than a hard drive. And effectively zero seek time.

 

[SavageAUS]

I find the 240/250gb ssd's to be good bang for buck.
Transcend SSD220 240gb for $109 for example.

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