I am putting together a fresh build for a home server (for now simply as a safe file storage system so my CPU requirements wont be very high). My gaming PC right now has 41 TB of capacity (in a mix of 2, 5, 8 TB drives, and a SSD) mostly movies, games, videos (I stream / youtube), but in the back of my mind I know I should be backing it up in a safer system because if a drive dies I'll be kicking myself for years. I've built gaming rigs before for myself and friends, but this is the first time I'm building for a non windows setup. I finally have some spare money (and time) so I figured now's as good as ever, and I have this in mind:
I think I'll get another 4 8TB drives to build the freeNAS and transfer my data over. It's easy to use available data so I can realistically see myself building up to the full 10 8 TB drives before long.
- Case: W100 thermatake (I don't have a rack and I don't like the idea of just putting a rack mounted chassis on the floor in my room) plus this monster case can hold up to 20 HDDs which is plenty.
- Mobo: SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SRL-F (Recommended by the guide, has 10 satas right off the bat so I don't need to figure out how to get more.)
- CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1620 V4 (I don't need to waste money on a cpu, it seems plenty fast and because I don't need to do plex (I have a nvidia shield for that) or run VMs it should be fine)
- RAM: Samsung ECC M393A4K40BB1-CRC 1x32 GB (recommended by supermicro, I was going to go with 2x16, because I think 32GB will be fine to start with, but I looked into it and 1x32 was the same price/GB as a 2x16 solution but will be more future proof, as I get closer to 60 TB of storage I'll buy another 32 GB of ram)
- PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 (I think this series by EVGA is great, and 1000W will be plenty for a long time, it should easily power all 10 of the sata on the mobo to start)
- Cooler: Supermicro SNK-P0050AP4 (I need some kind of cooler, and this one was recommended by supermicro as fitting the x10 boards (those ram slots sure are close to the cpu though..)
I think I'll get another 4 8TB drives to build the freeNAS and transfer my data over. It's easy to use available data so I can realistically see myself building up to the full 10 8 TB drives before long.