Stromkompressor
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Hi!
I am planning my first NAS build. I have read some guides regarding hardware choice.
I want to run TrueNAS Scale as a home media center to store pictures and videos. Currently I store all files (1 TB total) on an SSD which is also the boot drive of a Windows PC. I do backups with Duplicati to Backblaze, another SSD and another HDD. The SSD is at a friend's house. I want to move to Kopia but that's another topic.
The amount of files is slowly growing and I want to move to a NAS. Currently I am at 1TB, but I guess I will at 2 TB in 5 years. Currently the files are mostly "write-only", which means I rarely every open them. But still they have extremely great value for me (that's why I do backups).
I have a draft what hardware to get. I want to get your feeback on this. I mostly try to buy used components. It might happen that one component will not be available anymore in a few days because it might already be sold. This is just a rough plan for now:
Case: New Fractal Design Node 804
Motherboard: Used Supermicro X10SLM-F
CPU: Used Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3
RAM: Used 2x8gb ddr3 pc3-12800E with ECC
PSU: New Corsair RM550x
OS SSD: New Intenso High Performance SATA III 120 GB
HDDs: ? ~16 TB, could be even less right now. The data is not to be expected to grow rapidly.
SLOG: ?
This build seems overkill for my use case, I guess, but still it should be not the most shitty build.
Regarding HDD: Either "shuckable" WD Elements 8 TB or WD Red 8 TB? I could get along with 4x 2 TB. I would like to use RAID-Z2, that's why 4 drives a required but actually I don't need that much space.
Regarding SLOG: IIUC I want sync writes to be activated to prevent data loss. Without a SLOG the writes are limited by the HDDs. With a SLOG the writes are faster if the SLOG is faster than the HDDs. If the write-speed is not unbearably slow I guess I can live without a SLOG, right? I read that you should rather use the money to buy more RAM instead of a SLOG? Would that even improve write-speeds since sync-write is enabled?
Any feedback is appreciated. I will check the compatibility of the components later. I just want to get a rough overview.
I am planning my first NAS build. I have read some guides regarding hardware choice.
I want to run TrueNAS Scale as a home media center to store pictures and videos. Currently I store all files (1 TB total) on an SSD which is also the boot drive of a Windows PC. I do backups with Duplicati to Backblaze, another SSD and another HDD. The SSD is at a friend's house. I want to move to Kopia but that's another topic.
The amount of files is slowly growing and I want to move to a NAS. Currently I am at 1TB, but I guess I will at 2 TB in 5 years. Currently the files are mostly "write-only", which means I rarely every open them. But still they have extremely great value for me (that's why I do backups).
I have a draft what hardware to get. I want to get your feeback on this. I mostly try to buy used components. It might happen that one component will not be available anymore in a few days because it might already be sold. This is just a rough plan for now:
Case: New Fractal Design Node 804
Motherboard: Used Supermicro X10SLM-F
CPU: Used Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3
RAM: Used 2x8gb ddr3 pc3-12800E with ECC
PSU: New Corsair RM550x
OS SSD: New Intenso High Performance SATA III 120 GB
HDDs: ? ~16 TB, could be even less right now. The data is not to be expected to grow rapidly.
SLOG: ?
This build seems overkill for my use case, I guess, but still it should be not the most shitty build.
Regarding HDD: Either "shuckable" WD Elements 8 TB or WD Red 8 TB? I could get along with 4x 2 TB. I would like to use RAID-Z2, that's why 4 drives a required but actually I don't need that much space.
Regarding SLOG: IIUC I want sync writes to be activated to prevent data loss. Without a SLOG the writes are limited by the HDDs. With a SLOG the writes are faster if the SLOG is faster than the HDDs. If the write-speed is not unbearably slow I guess I can live without a SLOG, right? I read that you should rather use the money to buy more RAM instead of a SLOG? Would that even improve write-speeds since sync-write is enabled?
Any feedback is appreciated. I will check the compatibility of the components later. I just want to get a rough overview.