Plan on swapping out the i7 to a low power Xeon.
I’m thinking of going with the Xeon E3-1265L V3 which is half the Watts of the i7 currently in there.
Also, If anyone can recommend a GPU. Some of my “files” are 4K/UHD/ HDR/ DOLBY Atmos.
And, It’ll also be my seedbox. but not seeding much at all. just enough to give back to the community.
I’m not looking for many concurrent streams. Maybe 2 plex streams at the same time at most.Usually just one.
In the first pic in the background you can see my netgear nas. This is the new replacement as a NAS and PLEX server.
My Netgear NAS runs PLEX and is about full with 7TB Storage via JBOD. No Bueno
I’ll be getting WD Red’s
I’ll be using TrueNAS with the PLEX plugin.
I’ll be posting as I go.
Noctua fans installed. 2 80mm silent
Sensible choices there. Consider putting the OS on a separate SSD so the WD drives are just storage. Also, drop JBOD (or anything with RAID0 in it for that matter) if you want to keep your data safe long term. The 8TB drives are fairly affordable right now and just 3 in RAID5 offer 16TB actual storage and a 1 drive redundancy. Add another drive for a RAID6 and any 2 drives can fail w/o data loss. I know ZFS is all the rage right now, but it’s just another way of doing basic data protection. The old RAID levels are still fine, especially on Linux (mdadm tool).
Do note that the 16TB drives are comparatively cheaper then the 8TB versions as they don’t cost twice as much as said 8TB drives.
Finally, it’s good practice not to purchase all storage drives from the same vendor at the same supplier but instead make sure you have at least 2 different brands represented in your array. This way, if you hit a bad batch of disks, the other half (or better) will still be functional and your data can be recovered.
CMR vs SMR isn’t really relevant to me IMHO, One is slower to write or rebuild in case one fails, but its for personal use. not a business setting where uptime is crucial. I’ll gladly take the slower one to save some cash
You’re missing the point. It’s not about uptime, it’s about data retention. When a SMR drive is used to replace a failed drive in a RAID (or actually: the array has at least one SMR drive in it), rebuilding the array takes longer then for an CMR disk. That delta can be crucial in keeping or loosing your data when (not if) another drive fails. Which is why I’m recommending RAID6 over RAID5, despite the write-penalty (RAID5 is quicker) as it allows another drive failure during rebuilding of the array.
So… the ICYdock INSTANTLY broke. I opened one of the bay doors with a drive in it, and the tiny mm plastic hinges completely shattered on the second open so the door completely broke off…
Not what to expect from an item advertised as “hot swapable”
Returning.
If anyone has an idea for a good replacement please drop a comment
So I killed the 2 8TB drives. I hooked up a SATA cable laying around to the psu and boom, both dead. I think the cable is from a Corsair set. I’m going to try to search ebay for drives with working hdd boards and swap to see if I can salvage them.
Just a heads up, I think you switched CMR and SMR in your post. CMR is the normal type of HDD, SMR is the newer type that trades 5% more storage, for performance that can hit fucking kilobytes per second when self managed. (A host managed SMR wouldn’t be that bad with proper OS support).
My suggestion for a replacement for the IcyDock 5.25" bay to 3.5" hotswap adapter would be the SilverStone SST-FS305-12G (converts three 5.25" slots to five 3.5" slots). Alternatively there’s their RL-FS303B which converts two 5.25" bays to three 3.5" slots.
The SST-FS305-12G uses an 80mm fan while the FS303B uses a 70mm one - I replaced both with some 8-mm Noctua fans and used some screws I had that were compatible (I believe they were M2). Note that the FS303B’s 70mm fan wouldn’t fit the Noctua 80mm fan perfectly, but I’m content with just having 1 screw in for that
