Hello together,
as my current Synology NAS with just 2 bays is getting older i'm looking towards an DIY TrueNas build!
My main purpose is to store self made pictures and videos and the most space will be used by my large (uhhd) blu-ray collection. I'm getting used to stream them from my nas rather than having to put the disc everytime in a not so silent blu-ray player!
So my suggestion would be to use one of Asrock Racks x570 Boards with a BMC, put as much ECC ram in it as possible (128GB), stick a decent 3700x 8-core cpu on it and of course a Broadcom SAS HBA with 8 oder 16 internal SAS ports. As hdds i would go with SAS 14 oder 16TB devices and put them into a raidZ2. A decent 19" case with a SAS backplane and a good PSU is also on my list. Two cheap SATA ssds would serve as boot devices.
The following questions came to my mind:
1) Is an L2ARC oder ZIL ssd-caching needed or suggested?
2) Will my 8 oder 16 discs always be spinning while watching a movie or does TrueNas load the blu-ray image (for example 80GB) to my main memory at once and sends the 8 oder 16 discs to sleep again?
3) With my synology I synchronise my documents folder of each PC an family member to the NAS. Would that be possible with TrueNas also and is a dedicated pair of mirrored SSDs possible for these small files, for example those new hybrid pools?
Thanks for your help and comments in advance!
Luke82
as my current Synology NAS with just 2 bays is getting older i'm looking towards an DIY TrueNas build!
My main purpose is to store self made pictures and videos and the most space will be used by my large (uhhd) blu-ray collection. I'm getting used to stream them from my nas rather than having to put the disc everytime in a not so silent blu-ray player!
So my suggestion would be to use one of Asrock Racks x570 Boards with a BMC, put as much ECC ram in it as possible (128GB), stick a decent 3700x 8-core cpu on it and of course a Broadcom SAS HBA with 8 oder 16 internal SAS ports. As hdds i would go with SAS 14 oder 16TB devices and put them into a raidZ2. A decent 19" case with a SAS backplane and a good PSU is also on my list. Two cheap SATA ssds would serve as boot devices.
The following questions came to my mind:
1) Is an L2ARC oder ZIL ssd-caching needed or suggested?
2) Will my 8 oder 16 discs always be spinning while watching a movie or does TrueNas load the blu-ray image (for example 80GB) to my main memory at once and sends the 8 oder 16 discs to sleep again?
3) With my synology I synchronise my documents folder of each PC an family member to the NAS. Would that be possible with TrueNas also and is a dedicated pair of mirrored SSDs possible for these small files, for example those new hybrid pools?
Thanks for your help and comments in advance!
Luke82