New FreeNAS/Plex Server

amalgroki · November 1, 2017, 9:37pm

According to others on the forum Ryzen seems to work perfectly OK

AMD Ryzen + Freenas - Succesfull Build a PC

Hello everyone, Good day. Just one of the normies reporting. I wanted to share with the community my build for a home server FreeNAS. Because I am not a computer savvy, It was difficult for me to find on the web about successful builds for this type of machines with Ryzen. So, I wanted to share for the rest of us normies my successful story. On one note, some might tell me that this build might be a little overpowered. But I wanted to be future proof for my needs at least. Hardware: CPU -> AMD Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHZ - YD1400BBAEBOX Motherboard -> ASUS PRIME X370-PRO RAM -> Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB DDR4-2133 32GB DRAM 2133MHz - CMK32GX4M2A2133C13 Power Supply -> 430W Corsair CP-9020058-NA M2 Drive for OS (like SSD)-> 120GB Corsair MP500 - CSSD-F120GBMP500 GPU -> EVGA 750 Ti - 02G-P4-3753-KR Case -> 4U Rosewill RSV-L4412 - 12 Hot swap bays SAS Card -> HighPoint RocketRAID 2760A 24-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x16 SAS/SATA RAID Controller And 12 3TB HDD of multiple brands. Note: To my knowledge the Ryzen CPU does not come with an integrated graphics card. You would need to add one. I used the 750 Ti because I had it lying around. But I would recommend a cheaper and less power consuming card like Zotac ZT-71304-20L GeForce GT 710 1GB GDDR3. Yet again, FreeNAS do not make use of the full GPU for other task. It just use it for displaying the OS data interface. Installation Just assemble it as any other PC. Please update you bios before intalling the OS. Regardless, I came across an issue with my configuration. The RocketRAID card would not be seen in the secondary PCIe Slot. The GPU was installed on the first PCIe lane (the one the manufacturer recommend for GPU). I believe the root cause was that the GPU took all the bandwidth of the shared PCI lane. So I switch them and problem solved. That is why you will se first the SAS card and then the GPU. [IMG_0103[1]][IMG_0104[1]][IMG_0105[1]][IMG_0106[1]] FreeNAS - Installed version 11.0-U2 burned to a CD. Bad Thi…