Parts for New Build - Proper

[denaba]

Since FreeNAS version 8 I have always used just regular home user grade parts. I think only one disaster occurred, but that has been it. This last issue I had was do to memory, but all data was intact. But with that said< I want to build my first NAS with server grade parts. Some details

Usage -
System only gets accessed by one computer. 5 years from now we may have two at the same time

Current Hard Drives are HGST recommended from Back Blaze; 8TB x 4. Only half of the space is used up.

System basically gets written to once or twice a week or even one or twice in three weeks so not very many writes. However accessing the files (reads) is used 4 times a week so nothing like a lot of you use TrueNAS for. But data is important nevertheless.

Looking for the following
Motherboard with 2 m.2 NVMe
SATA ports - 6 to 8
Memory - 32GB, but want 4 slots in case for expansion.

I was looking at Newegg and I see a few manufacturers, but I am going to assume that SuperMicro motherboards are the choice?

Read at the STH that DDR5 that is out is not ECC. But reading threads around here it is only a matter of time so how long do we think these will come out?

M.2 is due to me getting a steal on NVMe sticks so one I loaded the system and the other just mirrors it

Looking forward to this jump, thank you

 

[MrGuvernment]

For myself, I got a used HP workstation (see sig) for a steal of a price) Now while the slots are PCIe gen 3, so i dont get full speeds from my NVMe's they still run great for VM's over NFS and holds 4 x 3.5 Drives also, but be a cheaper route, and also gives you a Xeon based system with ECC DDR4.