So, lets start with the build and a few pictures.
Heres what I have-
-cpu- Ryzen 7 2700 (non-x)- No OC (may want to change later but bios is very diffrent on mobo I’m using.
-cooler- modified MSI Frozr L (modified with noctua mount-post later?)
-ram- 32GB Kingston KSM26ED8/16ME Server Premier unbuffered ECC 2666 -this was on there QVL list and was one of the few UNBUFFERED EEC memories I could find. ECC function seems to work great.
-mobo- ASRock Rack X470D4U
- SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+SAS Pcie 2.0 (which was flashed to IT mode for use) with 4x 6TB Ironwolf Drives in RAIDZ1 (main data archive writen to seldomly and accessed for use more- ie movies music etc) and a Samsung 883 DCT Series 480 GB SSD for cache - the SSD has power failure protection so it appears there is a capacitor that allows it to finish any writes needed to safe guard it as a cache option and it was only $120.
-Drives- Samsung 970 Evo 500GB M.2 pcie and two SanDisk Ultra 3D NAND 500GB sata SSD’s all in RAID1 (the hope being I can unmount one to have as a roll back.
Seagate Firecuda 2.5in 2TB SHHD with a Samsung 850 1TB sata SSD for cache- this is dedicated as a DVR drive as i can easily replace it when it wears out from recoding etc.
-GPU1 - MSI GTX 1650 Super Gaming X -this is passed through to Plex LXC for transcodes and has patched software to remove limits to transcodes.
-GPU2 - EVGA GT 710 2GB DDR3 64bit Single Slot, Low Profile - this I hope to use as a GPU for a VM I can access and use via KVM (I have not set this up yet, and I have a few ideas about it I’ll have to ask about.
-PSU - I always go over powered so I have a CORSAIR AX Series, AX850, 850 Watt, 80+ Titanium PSU. I wanted Titanium for the low lower consumption. So far its been amazing going between 90 to 99% efficiency at about 80w with this setup.
-Case - Fractal Node 804 with 6 Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM (I have never used these and always went for the NF-a12’s…I am plesantly surprised at how well these work and are very quiet for my needs) 4 in front for intake on both “sides” of the case, and I used 2 more on the top of the motherboard side. The front fan before the CPU cooler is intake, and rear one after CPU cooler is exhaust. The in the rear of the case on the cpu side it only takes a 120 thats not ver restrictive so I put a Noctua NF-S12A PWM chromax and on the disk drive PSU side I put a Noctua NF-A14 PWM chromax becuase it allowed up to 140mm.
Here are some pictures
That all for today on hardware. Next Ill get into Proxmox and some setup stuff I did like custom CPU cooler mounting and a few other things I ran into or changed.
I dont know whats the best etiquette here on two fronts. Should I just have Imgur links instead of whole photos taking up space? Second, should I just keep one long log or reply to it as I add?