Hi, I am loo0king to update my home server setup.
I have found a good deal on a Threadripper 2950x with a Asus Strix x399-E Gaming motherboard for £350.
I wanted Threadripper so that i have plenty of PCI E to add in a HBA or two + GPU + 10GB NCI.
My plan is to use ZFS for the storage so it would be great to have ECC ram for extra safety and system stability. The board states it does support ECC but I cannot find any QVL list for compatible memory.
Does anyone know where I can find this, or have any other advice before I spend the money?
If the ECC support is broken and not worth the extra effort and cost then I’ll stick with consumer RAM.
My plan for the setup is to be running TrueNAS for mange the ZFS, alerting and a nice easy GUI for setup and VM’s.
I plan is to actually set the storage up as a zVOl block device and pass this to a Ubuntu VM for running applications and docker images with cockpit as a web GUI for that.
My reason for zVol was so that I can periodically (once a week/month) boot up a Window 10 VM and mount the volume in there as a native disk. My idea for this being that I can then use BackBlaze as a cloud backup for data, as it does not allow network devices but mounting a zVol in a VM should look just like a native disk. I can then backup my data as and they are happy for a PC to be offline for a month or more without deleting the data, so I just need to periodically boot up windows and sync up the changes.