Ryan Hansen
Cadet
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- Feb 23, 2017
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Hi All,
New to the thread, read lots so far - much more to read yet!
I've finally put together my 1st TrueNAS build, just finished installing (bare metal)TrueNAS Scale today!
My Build: (Very likely overbuilt - but I didn't want to limit the system, or age it too soon either)
Case - Fractal Node 304
CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U14S, Premium CPU Cooler with NF-A15 140mm Fan
Motherboard - Gigabyte A520i AC
Graphics Card - Nvidia Tesla P4 with a 3d printed fan mod
RAM - (2x) Crucial 16GB DDR4 2666MHz PC4-21300 2RX8 CL19 ECC UDIMM Memory CT16G4WFD8266
PSU - 430W EVGA
HDD - (4x) Western Digital Red Pro 12TB NAS Hard Drive, WD121KFBX
Future HDDs - (2x) 22TB WD Red Pro as back-up drives for the above 4 drives.
Boot Drives - (2x) 256GB Samsung MUF-256AB/APC Fit Plus USB Drives - plugged into the USB 3.0 ports. These drives apparently are Samsung V-NAND - hopefully that helps in the reliability side of things?
I have a few questions regarding the configuration of everything now - I'd rather not learn the hard way. So here is what my thoughts are - please stop me if there are better ways of configuring this.
I will be using this as a headless TrueNAS computer for the following:
PLEX Server, Radarr, Sonarr, Home Assistant, NextCloud, Pi-hole, AdGuard(maybe), Jelly Fin, Tdarr, Lidarr, SABNZBD (can't see it in the app section however - but being Linux based, I'm sure I can figure something out), and possibly others as the system grows. I don't forsee virtualization happening (not even sure my CPU supports it). This will be for under 6 people. I'd like to set up my movie and music library - back-up and store all my photos and work documents (from OneDrive and Google Drive).
My thoughts for how I'd set up the HDDs is striped mirror (2x) 12tb drives, then again stripe mirror the other two 12tb HDDs. From here, I haven't figured out if I should leave them as two seperate pools, or try to combine them? As for back-up - I'm looking at purchasing two 22TB drives and backing up to those. I haven't figured out how back-ups work in TrueNAS yet - so I'm open to comments on how to set this up correctly.
I still have my m.2 slot available in my motherboard, not sure what I'll use that for yet - maybe upgrade to faster LAN (currently 1gbe) or sata expansion module.
I heard mixed reviews about SLOG and L2ARC. But from what I've read so far, I should steer clear of these and don't dedicate my m.2 to SLOG or L2ARC.
Just going through the TrueNAS settings and searching each setting configuration trying to understand what each one does and the desired setting (this will take a while). Then there is
I'm excited to figure out my system and research as much as I can - thought I'd ask the experts to weigh in on their thoughts as I go along.
Cheers!
New to the thread, read lots so far - much more to read yet!
I've finally put together my 1st TrueNAS build, just finished installing (bare metal)TrueNAS Scale today!
My Build: (Very likely overbuilt - but I didn't want to limit the system, or age it too soon either)
Case - Fractal Node 304
CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U14S, Premium CPU Cooler with NF-A15 140mm Fan
Motherboard - Gigabyte A520i AC
Graphics Card - Nvidia Tesla P4 with a 3d printed fan mod
RAM - (2x) Crucial 16GB DDR4 2666MHz PC4-21300 2RX8 CL19 ECC UDIMM Memory CT16G4WFD8266
PSU - 430W EVGA
HDD - (4x) Western Digital Red Pro 12TB NAS Hard Drive, WD121KFBX
Future HDDs - (2x) 22TB WD Red Pro as back-up drives for the above 4 drives.
Boot Drives - (2x) 256GB Samsung MUF-256AB/APC Fit Plus USB Drives - plugged into the USB 3.0 ports. These drives apparently are Samsung V-NAND - hopefully that helps in the reliability side of things?
I have a few questions regarding the configuration of everything now - I'd rather not learn the hard way. So here is what my thoughts are - please stop me if there are better ways of configuring this.
I will be using this as a headless TrueNAS computer for the following:
PLEX Server, Radarr, Sonarr, Home Assistant, NextCloud, Pi-hole, AdGuard(maybe), Jelly Fin, Tdarr, Lidarr, SABNZBD (can't see it in the app section however - but being Linux based, I'm sure I can figure something out), and possibly others as the system grows. I don't forsee virtualization happening (not even sure my CPU supports it). This will be for under 6 people. I'd like to set up my movie and music library - back-up and store all my photos and work documents (from OneDrive and Google Drive).
My thoughts for how I'd set up the HDDs is striped mirror (2x) 12tb drives, then again stripe mirror the other two 12tb HDDs. From here, I haven't figured out if I should leave them as two seperate pools, or try to combine them? As for back-up - I'm looking at purchasing two 22TB drives and backing up to those. I haven't figured out how back-ups work in TrueNAS yet - so I'm open to comments on how to set this up correctly.
I still have my m.2 slot available in my motherboard, not sure what I'll use that for yet - maybe upgrade to faster LAN (currently 1gbe) or sata expansion module.
I heard mixed reviews about SLOG and L2ARC. But from what I've read so far, I should steer clear of these and don't dedicate my m.2 to SLOG or L2ARC.
Just going through the TrueNAS settings and searching each setting configuration trying to understand what each one does and the desired setting (this will take a while). Then there is
I'm excited to figure out my system and research as much as I can - thought I'd ask the experts to weigh in on their thoughts as I go along.
Cheers!