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You'll also want to think about the NICs on the board you're using, and whether they're supported. For the desktop CPU, I'm not sure how much experience has been gathered. There is a forum thread about using AMD EPYC - the server part - and the performance from that was great. The drawback is that it doesn't have a GPU, so now you need a tiny GPU to make it work.
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See Taichi/#Specification, "For Ryzen Series CPUs (Raven Ridge), ECC is only supported with PRO CPUs." Good luck finding Pro, those are really hard to find - they were meant as OEM-only parts.Ī Ryzen 3 2300x (Pinnacle Ridge) will support ECC, and gives you a Passmark of just under 8,700 - enough for four 1080p transcodes or maybe, huge maybe, one 4k transcode. ECC memory will work, but it won't use the ECC features. Jails: running 1 iocage jail (Plex) using danb35's script:Īdditional NIC: MELLANOX 10GB CONNECTX2 - MNPA19-XTR Take a look here: A post with Links to useful threads Vdev-1 = 4 x 6 TB drives in RAID-z1 (4 WD Gold drives - WD6002FRYZ)īoot pool: 1 vdev with 2 x 40 GB notebook drives in mirror (2 drives total - FUJITSU MHW2040BS) Vdev-0 = 4 x 6 TB drives in RAID-z1 (4 WD Gold drives - WD6002FRYZ) Vdev-1 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Exos drives - ST4000NM0115) Vdev-0 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Exos drives - ST4000NM0115) Vdev-1 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) Vdev-0 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) HBA: LSI/Broadcom SAS9207-8i, 6Gbps SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA - flashed to IT Firmware: 20.00.07.00Ĭonnected to: two 6Gb/s 24-port 3.5" mini-SAS expander backplanes (80H10024001A0) 128 GB of 16GB sticks Samsung brand PC3-12800R, DDR3 Registered ECC Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2, 2.6GHz 8 Core (16 thread) System board: SuperMicro Motherboard X9SRL-F, LGA 2011/Socket R, IPMI For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives. The three pools in this one system represent the three NAS systems I had before the consolidation. I have even put together some hardware just to test things out a time or two.įor a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I made some mistakes along the way, learned some and I try to share some of those lessons learned experiences here in the forum. This is the 8th FreeNAS unit I have built for home. This one was built in 2018, but I reused the name from a previous build.
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nordVPN), and have it appear as a network disk remotely?Įdit: What about this HBA? It is very cheap, and if it is compatible with a cheaper X370 board, it might be cheaper overall When it comes to load, it will at most have 2-3 simultaneous users, streaming up to 1080p streams.Īlso, can I combine this with a standard VPN (i.e.
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I will be able to (if required) install several Host Bus Adapters, 10GbE-cards etc., down the line, if required. The things I like are futureproofing, stability, price (obviously), and upgradeability. Total price, including disks, shoud be around 1500$ (500$ for the system, 1000$ for disks) I considered 4x8TB disks, but with my budget of about 1000$ for disks, and wanting dual disk failure redundancy, 4x8TB is both more expensive, and gives far less usable storage (16TB vs. Motherboard: ASRock X370 Taichi (10 sata-ports, supports ECC RAM)Ĭase: Fractal Design Define R6 (with 4 extra HDD-trays, bringing it up to a total of 10 bays) I have tried to find cheaper combos, where I buy a cheaper motherboard, and a Host Bus Adapter for equal or less money, without being successful.Īlso, I don't know much about compatibility between Host Bus Adapters and the AMD X370 platform. The reasoning behind the motherboard, is because it supports ECC memory, and it has 10 onboard SATA-6 ports, for a total price of around 170$. I'm choosing to buy new, because of poor availability of used stock in my country, and high import fees. My plan is to use a ASRock X370 Taichi motherboard, paired with an AMD Ryzen 3 2200G APU. After doing some initial research, I have decided on going for freeNAS with ZFS2, instead of unraid, but I have several questions. I've wanted to own a descent NAS-server/Plex-server for some time now. First time poster here, and about to do my first server build.