Hi all,
Hope everyone is keeping well during these times. The current situation has given me a fair bit of time to research my proposed build and so I’d like to put this to the community for approval/discussion if you don’t mind?
I have a QNAP 419p currently and whilst it serves up 4k content to my two UHD endpoints pretty well, it’s struggling a bit with some of the extra curricular activities I would like to make use of; namely BT via OVPN and some VMs for testing/learning and possibly some video transcoding as well as personal safe storage for family content. As tends to be the case, once I find I have the capabilities to do something I hadn’t done previously but now can, I would likely try to make use of those too.
My plans started out with the more expensive gaming components, but the more reading I did, the more I realised that using the appropriate components from the beginning should hopefully stand me in good stead for a long and reliable stint with this particular build. If it helps to understand what I’m trying to achieve, I am someone who tends to overspec and over engineer most things I get involved with in the hope I’ll not regret any decisions once the build is completed.
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SCL-F (MBD-X11SCL-F)
CPU: Intel Quad Core Xeon E Series 2124G (BX80684E2124G)
RAM: 2x Samsung 16GB 2666 MHz ECC DDR4 (M391A2K43BB1-CTD)
OS HDD: WD Black SN750 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe (WDS500G3XHC)
Storage HDDs: 4x Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5 inch NAS (WD30EFRX)
Disk controller: LSI 9211-8I from eBay
Network cards: Onboard 2 x 1GB
Case: Cooler Master S400 Silencio Steel Quiet Micro ATX (MCS-S400-KN5N-S00)
PSU: TBC
CPU Cooler: TBC
Couple of comments from me before opening for discussion:
Many thanks in advance :)
Hope everyone is keeping well during these times. The current situation has given me a fair bit of time to research my proposed build and so I’d like to put this to the community for approval/discussion if you don’t mind?
I have a QNAP 419p currently and whilst it serves up 4k content to my two UHD endpoints pretty well, it’s struggling a bit with some of the extra curricular activities I would like to make use of; namely BT via OVPN and some VMs for testing/learning and possibly some video transcoding as well as personal safe storage for family content. As tends to be the case, once I find I have the capabilities to do something I hadn’t done previously but now can, I would likely try to make use of those too.
My plans started out with the more expensive gaming components, but the more reading I did, the more I realised that using the appropriate components from the beginning should hopefully stand me in good stead for a long and reliable stint with this particular build. If it helps to understand what I’m trying to achieve, I am someone who tends to overspec and over engineer most things I get involved with in the hope I’ll not regret any decisions once the build is completed.
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SCL-F (MBD-X11SCL-F)
CPU: Intel Quad Core Xeon E Series 2124G (BX80684E2124G)
RAM: 2x Samsung 16GB 2666 MHz ECC DDR4 (M391A2K43BB1-CTD)
OS HDD: WD Black SN750 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe (WDS500G3XHC)
Storage HDDs: 4x Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5 inch NAS (WD30EFRX)
Disk controller: LSI 9211-8I from eBay
Network cards: Onboard 2 x 1GB
Case: Cooler Master S400 Silencio Steel Quiet Micro ATX (MCS-S400-KN5N-S00)
PSU: TBC
CPU Cooler: TBC
Couple of comments from me before opening for discussion:
- Is it still advisable to get a separate HBA when using the Supermicro boads?
- What is a good level of CPU to go for? My usual philosophy on such matters tends to be “well, the next model up is only another £15 and I won’t be swapping it later”
- The NVMe SSD might be overkill in this scenario, willing to stand down on that one…
- I have restricted space in the location this server is going to live and the Cooler Master seemed a well thought out design whilst having space for the drives I intend to install.
- Cooler wise, am I going to have difficulties fitting a cooler on this motherboard? I read something around here the other day suggesting folk use Supermicro's own coolers, but I can't find the thread now...
Many thanks in advance :)