I have a Dell T7920 with dual Xeon Gold 6148's & 256gb of RAM. I've installed three quad NVME m.2 PCIE cards (Dell PN:6N9RH), and intend to run 12 x 4tb m.2 (undecided on specific model) and pass the controller cards through proxmox to a VM running TrueNAS Core. It has a few onboard interfaces and an older x520 based 10 gig adapter, which I'll likely dedicate to the TrueNAS box as well.
Use is primarily media storage - im leaning towards 12 x 4tb NVME because I believe they will put off less heat than a similar # of SAS or SATA drives, plus the much smaller footprint.
Summary:
40 cores, 80 threads
12 x 4tb m.2 NVME
256gb memory (can easily dedicate half or more to TrueNAS VM)
Feedback appreciated - my current TrueNAS Scale box is a Dell power edge T420 dual Xeon E5-2470V2, 192gb of ram and 8 x 4tb 7200 SAS drives w/x520 10g
Use is primarily media storage - im leaning towards 12 x 4tb NVME because I believe they will put off less heat than a similar # of SAS or SATA drives, plus the much smaller footprint.
Summary:
40 cores, 80 threads
12 x 4tb m.2 NVME
256gb memory (can easily dedicate half or more to TrueNAS VM)
Feedback appreciated - my current TrueNAS Scale box is a Dell power edge T420 dual Xeon E5-2470V2, 192gb of ram and 8 x 4tb 7200 SAS drives w/x520 10g