Plex/Media NAS

[bommar2]

• Node 804
• Intel Xeon E3-1230 v6
• SuperMicro MBD-X11SSM-F-O
• Kingston Value 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR4 2400
• LSI 9211-8i
• 5x WD Red 8TB
• 2x 128GB ADATA SSD (for mirrored FreeNAS)
• EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

This is my first server build and my first venture into FreeNAS, but I've read up on it and want to go that route and utilize ZFS as well. Thanks for any feeback!

 

[Stux]

You don't need the HBA until you want more than 8 drives connected. I count 7.

You want unregistered/buffered ram. (UDIMM)

 

[Jailer]

Plus 1 ssd is more than enough for a boot drive. Mirrored ssd boot drives really isnt neccessary.

 

[bommar2]

You don't need the HBA until you want more than 8 drives connected. I count 7.

You want unregistered/buffered ram. (UDIMM)

Thanks. I'd seen some advice to run the storage drives off the HBA and the boot drives off the mobo mostly for futureproofing as I may add drives.

As far as the RAM will registered memory not work? What's the reasoning for UDIMM?

 

[bommar2]

Plus 1 ssd is more than enough for a boot drive. Mirrored ssd boot drives really isnt neccessary.

Good to know. I already purchased these and they were only $30 each - I guess I will use one for boot and one for plex metadata as I've read that can slow things down if it's not on an ssd.

 

[Jailer]

I've read that can slow things down if it's not on an ssd

I've been seeing this posted lately. I don't believe it one bit. All my metadata is stored in my jail which is on my main pool and I don't experience any sort of slowdowns or performance issues of any kind.

 

[Stux]

Thanks. I'd seen some advice to run the storage drives off the HBA and the boot drives off the mobo mostly for futureproofing as I may add drives.

Bad advice.

In the future, you can add an HBA if you need more Sata/SAS ports. Other reason is to pass through a controller for VM use, again you don't need to buy something upfront that you can purchase later to "future proof"

As far as the RAM will registered memory not work? What's the reasoning for UDIMM?

Check your motherboard specs. I believe you'll find that RDIMMS are not supported.

 

[bommar2]

Check your motherboard specs. I believe you'll find that RDIMMS are not supported.

Well I'm an idiot. I'll swap that out. Thanks!