verysneaky
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Hi All,
Just looking for some feedback/suggestions on two competing home NAS builds I have (trying to decide between the two/identify issues with them). I'm building it to support a home-use PLEX server, and ideally as a centralised file server. My tentative requirements are to be able to transcode 4x 1080p streams concurrently. I would also like the possibility of inserting a tv tuner (admittedly, i've done 0 research into this so I don't know if it's possible), and also potentially 10GbE. I don't need anything this fast, but it would be good to experiment with. In terms of storage, I currently have ~4TB of content, and looking to account for future usage and add some redundancy. Current thought is to use RAIDZ2 with 6x 3TB drives to give me 12TB usable.
The Supermicro Build:
Intel - Xeon E3-1220 V6 3GHz Quad-Core Processor - $269
Supermicro - MBD-X11SSM-F-O Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard - $266
Kingston - ValueRAM 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (ECC-Unbuffered) - $119 x 4 = $476
Western Digital - Green 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive - $40
Western Digital - Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive - $134 x 6 = $804
Fractal Design - Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case - $149
SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply - $145
Total Cost: $2149 AUD
Some reasoning behind these decisions:
- the X11SSM-F offers 8 SATA ports, giving me room to fill the entire capcaity of the Node 804 case in the future.
- 6 drives in a RAIDZ2 seems to be a good tradeoff between amount of storage and cost, 4 drives (which i was originally considering) requires me to give up 50% of the storage for redundancy which I don't love.
- 32GB RAM to exceed 18TB.
- Xeon E3-1220 V6 because it satisfies my passmark requirements (8046 > 4x2000). I had also considered the Xeon E3-1245 V6, which has a passmark of 10401, which would give me a buffer for my requirements. It's $120 AUD more expensive, though, and I'm trying to keep the costs of this build down (it's already getting too high for my liking). Not sure what to do here
- The power supply has good ratings, is fully modular and supposedly runs very quiet.
Questions:
- Do I need to consider a cpu cooler?
- Originally had RAM at 16GB RAM; is it necessary to increase this to 32?
- Is there anything I haven't considered? Are there better alternatives for any of these parts?
The ASRock Build:
Intel - Core i3-8100 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor - $153.00
Noctua - NH-D9L 46.4 CFM CPU Cooler - $85.80
ASRock - Z370M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard - $189.00
Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (Non ECC) - $239.00
Western Digital - Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive - $134 x 6 = $804.00
SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drive (128GB) - $94.00
Fractal Design - Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case - $129.00
SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $145.00
Total Cost: $1838 AUD
Some reasoning behind these decisions:
- the Z370M-ITX/ac has the smaller form factor and so this build could fit the node 304
- the Z370M-ITX/ac suppers 6 SATA drives, which fills the Node 304's capacity
- the i3-8100 has a passmark of 8055, which exceeds my requirements and is cheap
The downsides to the ASRock build:
- No ECC RAM
- No IPMI
- No room for future drive expansion
Counter points:
- I'm mostly going to be storing media, so if there is bit corruption it isn't too difficult just to replace the content
- The server will be very close to me physically, so IPMI will provide limited benefit
- RAIDZ doesn't support drive expansion at the moment anyway, so to increase my storage capacity, my understanding is that i'd have to rebuild with larger capacity drives anyway.. not increasing the number of drives I have.
- Both have the same amount of storage
- The ASRock build costs $300 less
- The ASRock build fits the smaller form factor, will take up less space
(Note all prices are in AUD, where 1AUD ~ 0.75 USD, 1USD ~ 1.3 AUD)
What are your thoughts? Which one would you choose and why? For your chosen build, is there anything you could improve? Any feedback provided is much appreciated!
Cheers!
VS
Just looking for some feedback/suggestions on two competing home NAS builds I have (trying to decide between the two/identify issues with them). I'm building it to support a home-use PLEX server, and ideally as a centralised file server. My tentative requirements are to be able to transcode 4x 1080p streams concurrently. I would also like the possibility of inserting a tv tuner (admittedly, i've done 0 research into this so I don't know if it's possible), and also potentially 10GbE. I don't need anything this fast, but it would be good to experiment with. In terms of storage, I currently have ~4TB of content, and looking to account for future usage and add some redundancy. Current thought is to use RAIDZ2 with 6x 3TB drives to give me 12TB usable.
The Supermicro Build:
Intel - Xeon E3-1220 V6 3GHz Quad-Core Processor - $269
Supermicro - MBD-X11SSM-F-O Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard - $266
Kingston - ValueRAM 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (ECC-Unbuffered) - $119 x 4 = $476
Western Digital - Green 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive - $40
Western Digital - Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive - $134 x 6 = $804
Fractal Design - Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case - $149
SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply - $145
Total Cost: $2149 AUD
Some reasoning behind these decisions:
- the X11SSM-F offers 8 SATA ports, giving me room to fill the entire capcaity of the Node 804 case in the future.
- 6 drives in a RAIDZ2 seems to be a good tradeoff between amount of storage and cost, 4 drives (which i was originally considering) requires me to give up 50% of the storage for redundancy which I don't love.
- 32GB RAM to exceed 18TB.
- Xeon E3-1220 V6 because it satisfies my passmark requirements (8046 > 4x2000). I had also considered the Xeon E3-1245 V6, which has a passmark of 10401, which would give me a buffer for my requirements. It's $120 AUD more expensive, though, and I'm trying to keep the costs of this build down (it's already getting too high for my liking). Not sure what to do here
- The power supply has good ratings, is fully modular and supposedly runs very quiet.
Questions:
- Do I need to consider a cpu cooler?
- Originally had RAM at 16GB RAM; is it necessary to increase this to 32?
- Is there anything I haven't considered? Are there better alternatives for any of these parts?
The ASRock Build:
Intel - Core i3-8100 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor - $153.00
Noctua - NH-D9L 46.4 CFM CPU Cooler - $85.80
ASRock - Z370M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard - $189.00
Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (Non ECC) - $239.00
Western Digital - Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive - $134 x 6 = $804.00
SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drive (128GB) - $94.00
Fractal Design - Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case - $129.00
SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $145.00
Total Cost: $1838 AUD
Some reasoning behind these decisions:
- the Z370M-ITX/ac has the smaller form factor and so this build could fit the node 304
- the Z370M-ITX/ac suppers 6 SATA drives, which fills the Node 304's capacity
- the i3-8100 has a passmark of 8055, which exceeds my requirements and is cheap
The downsides to the ASRock build:
- No ECC RAM
- No IPMI
- No room for future drive expansion
Counter points:
- I'm mostly going to be storing media, so if there is bit corruption it isn't too difficult just to replace the content
- The server will be very close to me physically, so IPMI will provide limited benefit
- RAIDZ doesn't support drive expansion at the moment anyway, so to increase my storage capacity, my understanding is that i'd have to rebuild with larger capacity drives anyway.. not increasing the number of drives I have.
- Both have the same amount of storage
- The ASRock build costs $300 less
- The ASRock build fits the smaller form factor, will take up less space
(Note all prices are in AUD, where 1AUD ~ 0.75 USD, 1USD ~ 1.3 AUD)
What are your thoughts? Which one would you choose and why? For your chosen build, is there anything you could improve? Any feedback provided is much appreciated!
Cheers!
VS