ThroughTheUnknown
Dabbler
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2019
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- 12
This is my first time posting so bare with me.
I'm finally ready to get my head out of the sand and stop swimming in my pool of Freenas do-nots. My current build is abysmal, and I've known for quite some time. It's just a dinky little €500 Eur laptop rocking 16GB of DDR4 Ram and a Core i3 with absolutely no ECC capabilities (I like living on the edge ;)). I've been saving up for some time and I have a budget of about €1500. Currently the whole build will take up about €1350 of this budget but I already have 4 WD Reds and I'm probably gonna buy a few more somewhere down the line.
As for the usage that this will be seeing, it'll have 4x WD Red 2TB and 2x 128GB SSDs (as boot drives), a few jails (Sonarr, Couchpotato, Transmission, Plex and Syncthing) and maybe 1 VM (running ubuntu server) doing some very light stuff which I can probably do right from a jail but that is something that I'll learn eventually.
Parts List:
Supermicro X11SSM
Intel Core i3 7320
Noctua NH-L9x65 (This might change in the future)
Kingston ValueRAM KVR24E17D8/16 Server CL17 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 ECC DIMM) (I'll be getting 2 of these for 32GB and upgrading in the future to 64GB)
Corsair HX750i COR 750W (Might switch to the one without the digital stuff)
LSI LSI00301 8 Port 6Gbps SAS 9207-8i SGL PCI-E Host Bus Adaptor
Cabled eConn Internal Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male to 4 SATA
Silverstone CS380
TP-LINK TL-SG1024
I wanted to see about anyone's thoughts regarding the case. I know it's built down to a price but how bad is the quality? I chose this because having hot-swappable drive bays would be pretty awesome although not a necessity. If anyone has any other suggestions I'd need it to hold up to 8 drives.
Any thoughts on the HBA card and Network Switch? I'm buying a managed switch to hopefully take advantage of the Link aggregation that Freenas would offer with the 2 gigabit ports on the mobo. It isn't at all required because I would be the only person using this machine but I could have multiple devices syncing through Syncthing
Thanks in advance!
I'm finally ready to get my head out of the sand and stop swimming in my pool of Freenas do-nots. My current build is abysmal, and I've known for quite some time. It's just a dinky little €500 Eur laptop rocking 16GB of DDR4 Ram and a Core i3 with absolutely no ECC capabilities (I like living on the edge ;)). I've been saving up for some time and I have a budget of about €1500. Currently the whole build will take up about €1350 of this budget but I already have 4 WD Reds and I'm probably gonna buy a few more somewhere down the line.
As for the usage that this will be seeing, it'll have 4x WD Red 2TB and 2x 128GB SSDs (as boot drives), a few jails (Sonarr, Couchpotato, Transmission, Plex and Syncthing) and maybe 1 VM (running ubuntu server) doing some very light stuff which I can probably do right from a jail but that is something that I'll learn eventually.
Parts List:
Supermicro X11SSM
Intel Core i3 7320
Noctua NH-L9x65 (This might change in the future)
Kingston ValueRAM KVR24E17D8/16 Server CL17 16GB 2400MHz DDR4 ECC DIMM) (I'll be getting 2 of these for 32GB and upgrading in the future to 64GB)
Corsair HX750i COR 750W (Might switch to the one without the digital stuff)
LSI LSI00301 8 Port 6Gbps SAS 9207-8i SGL PCI-E Host Bus Adaptor
Cabled eConn Internal Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male to 4 SATA
Silverstone CS380
TP-LINK TL-SG1024
I wanted to see about anyone's thoughts regarding the case. I know it's built down to a price but how bad is the quality? I chose this because having hot-swappable drive bays would be pretty awesome although not a necessity. If anyone has any other suggestions I'd need it to hold up to 8 drives.
Any thoughts on the HBA card and Network Switch? I'm buying a managed switch to hopefully take advantage of the Link aggregation that Freenas would offer with the 2 gigabit ports on the mobo. It isn't at all required because I would be the only person using this machine but I could have multiple devices syncing through Syncthing
Thanks in advance!