DigitalMinimalist
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Dear all,
I'm currently running Proxmox with Plex and HA (home Assistant) - never got NC (Nextcloud) running properly - on some old hardware (Z77, 2600K). It's time for a new built from scratch :)
I'm planning to switch to TrueNAS Scale OS and run NC, HA, PLEX from there!
First: easy topics
Key questions from my end:
Thank you
Alexander
I'm currently running Proxmox with Plex and HA (home Assistant) - never got NC (Nextcloud) running properly - on some old hardware (Z77, 2600K). It's time for a new built from scratch :)
I'm planning to switch to TrueNAS Scale OS and run NC, HA, PLEX from there!
First: easy topics
- Case
- minimum mATX mainboard
- ATX power supply fits
- I want to build a SFF Server and I think the Intertech IM-1 Pocket with 20L would do the job
- Hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration, including boot drives:
- OS: NVME boot drive (1TB Samsung 970 EVO - PCIe x3.0)
- Cache useful? (I have a second 1TB Samsung 970 EVO - PCIe x3.0)
- Storage Pool: 3x 16-18TB in ZFS pool
- Hard disk controllers:
- Mainboard SATA ports should be sufficient
- Network cards:
- PCIe 10GbE - probably X520-DA2
- RAM quantity:
- 2x16GB, or 4x 16GB
- DDR4 ECC, or DDR5 (is on-die ECC sufficient for ZFS?)
- Motherboard make and model
- mATX motherboard
- AM4 (or wait for AM5 if DDR5 is beneficial) , or Intel socket 1700 (if Intel: W680 chipset to gain ECC support)
- 4x RAM would be nice
- 2x NVME
- CPU make and model
- 6c/12T with iGPU and ECC support
- AMD Pro 5650G
- Intel 12400/12500 (with W680 mainboard) - Quicksync might be useful if I would like to use Plex Hardware transcoding
- 6c/12T with iGPU and ECC support
Key questions from my end:
- Which RAM path should I follow to have proper ECC for ZFS - DDR4, or DDR5?
- Are there any hardware restrictions regarding TrueNAS scale OS (e.g. PCIe NIC chip)?
Thank you
Alexander