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[dion_zimu]

I came here after watching the DIY NAS server videos from Gamers Nexus together with @wendell; I’m from South Africa and I would like to build a home server to store my files and but majority will be media files, I’m thinking of running TrueNas Scale as an OS because I want the assurance of ZFS. The reasoning behind this is because I’m starting a college Studying Computer Science and Cloud Engineering and like to do my own crazy experiments and break some stuff in the process of leaning, will be running 2 VM’s and some home automation and surveillance system then backing up 3 laptops and Next Cloud services. My budget is $5 000 these are parts I’ve come up with any suggestions are very much welcomed.

Case: Cosair Carbide Series 678c Noise Tempered atx case
OS drive: Western Digital 500GB WD Red SN700 NVMe
Write drive: Seagate IronWolf 125 NAS SSD 500GB
Read Drive: Seagate IronWolf 125 NAS SSD 1TB
Mass Storage: 6 x Seagate EXOS 14TB 7200 rpm 512e
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300W G2
Ram: NEMIX RAM 32GB X 2 = 64GB 2Rx4 EEC Registered
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Dual-Tower
Graphics Card: PNY Quadro P620
Motherboard: ASUS ProArt B550-Creator
Some generic PCI-E SAS to SATA HBA Adapt

The graphics card is for Plex media encoding. I will be running Raid Z2 just because well insurance. Let’s Chat!

[ccssid]

I would address you build in this forum:.

TrueNas forums . TrueNAS Community

Your build needs some adjustments. Your questions can be answered there.

Here is my setup: Running 24/7, without any issues, for the last 5 years.

Freenas: TrueNAS 12.0-u7
CPU: Xeon e3 1230 v5
MB : Asrock c236 ws
RAM: 32 GB, unbuffered ecc
HDD: 7 @ 4TB, wd red (cmr) and 3 @ Seagate Ironwolf 4tB (Raidz2) original system had 10 @ 3TB wd red. over 4 years, 3 went south. Changed to a mix of 4TB
BOOT DRIVE: Transcend 32 GB ssd370s
PSU: Seasonic G series ssr 550 rm (550 watts)
HBA: LSI 9211-8I, flashed to IT mode
CyberPower 1500AVR
NIC: Intel X520-DA1 E10G41BTDAG1P5 1P CNA 10GB SFP+ PCI-E Ethernet Server Adapter

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@dion_zimu

Cloud Engineering

Whaaaaa that’s a thing now? Cool.

Looks ok, maybe beef up the ram a little bit, more VMs would come in handy.

Raidz1 is probably good enough for only 6 drives (you’d have to be very unlucky).

Do the burn in rituals described on perfect media server website for the drives since you’re buying all same drives at the same time.

[Jimster480]

Pretty crazy build!
My FreeNAS Setup (yes I haven’t upgraded it to TrueNas yet) uses my ancient HTPC hardware.

AMD A4-3400 (K10-Starz architecture) 2.4Ghz Dual Core
ECS A55-M4 FM1 Motherboard
16GB Mushkin DDR3 1333Mhz
2x Hitachi Ultrastar 2TB in ZFS
2x Samsung 860 EVO 250GB in ZFS
1x Hitachi Ultrastar HE6 8TB
1x Hitachi Ultrastar HE6 6TB
1x 32GB Kingdian MLC (Planar) boot SSD
NORCO 8Bay 3.5mm Rackmount “Storage Case”

To be added:
1x 12TB WD Red/Blue from WD external

I have 4 network drives and I have no issues maxing out my 1gbps home network… Has literally been running for 6 years this year, no real issues whatsoever.
Should give anyone a good idea how low the performance bar has to be set to get good NAS performance. Previous to this I was using a J1800 which could only deliver decent throughput under boost clocks of 2.41Ghz… After that I could barely get 100mbps sustained throughput at the 800mhz “baseclock”.