FreeNAS newb build check

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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:

1. 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.
2. 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.)
   
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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.

 

[Chris Moore]

You might want to take a look at this gear instead. If you can buy it, I don't know what country you are in, so I don't know what access to parts you have. That is why answering 'Earth' for your location is anti-social.

CASE: Fractal-Design-Define-R5-FD-CA-DEF-R5-BK-Black-Silent-ATX-Midtower-Computer-Case - - US $89.24
https://www.ebay.com/itm/253026336681

POWER: Corsair-Certified-CS-M-Series-CS650M-650W-80-Plus-Gold-Active-PFC-Modular-Power - - US $64.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/382130407495

These are older components, but still very powerful.
I use similar components in both my 48 bay primary NAS and in my 24 bay backup NAS that runs ESXi with FreeNAS in a VM.

This one comes with a CPU and fan, but it is really slow, so probably want to replace it:

System Board: Supermicro X9SRL-F Motherboard LGA2011 System Board w/Intel E5-2650L 0 @ 1.80GHz - - US $174.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/132762499937

Nothing included with this one, so the price is lower, but an option:

Supermicro X9SRL-F Motherboard Socket LGA2011 System Board w/ I/O Shield - - US $161.49
https://www.ebay.com/itm/401593992194

Memory: SAMSUNG 16GB PC3L-12800R DDR3-1600 ECC Registered 1.35V RDIMM - - US $44.95
https://www.ebay.com/itm/302606459277

Note: You could go for the 32GB memory modules, but they are more than twice the price.

If the board above doesn't come with a cooler, or you want a better one, I use this model on two of my systems.
It is only slightly louder than the Noctua cooler I have on my wife's desktop PC.

CPU Fan: Dynatron R27 Side Fan CPU Cooler 3U for Intel Socket LGA2011 (Narrow ILM) - - US $39.59
https://www.ebay.com/itm/401284811045

The CPU that comes in the board above is pretty low speed, so you might find that you need a better one.
You have a lot of options for CPUs to go in this board, but I recently bought one of these for myself:

PassMark score of 13073... If you are wondering... This is the model I use for the NAS I run Plex in.

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2 2.6GHz 8 Core 20MB 8GT/s SR1A8 LGA2011 ( Ivy Bridge ) Processor - - US $89.97
https://www.ebay.com/itm/142937685210

Only it was $30 more when I bought it... It works great. Plenty of resources for all the things I am doing.

If you want more, you can get a 10 core model like this:

Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 Ten Core 2.8GHz 25MB CPU PROCESSOR LGA2011 SR1A6 - - Price: US $189.99
PassMark score of 15796... If you are wondering...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/192637399687

For the drive controller, I would suggest a SAS controller, just to get all the drives on a single controller. It works better that way. One SAS controller like this can run up to 256 drives by use of expander controllers. We can talk more about that when you need more drives but this will get you to eight drives to start.

Drive Controller: SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA LSI 9207-8i P20 IT Mode for ZFS FreeNAS unRAID - - US $69.55
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162862201664

Drive Cables: Mini SAS to 4-SATA SFF-8087 Multi-Lane Forward Breakout Internal Cable - - US $12.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/371681252206

I would suggest one of these SSDs for the boot drive.
These are used data-center drives, but as a boot drive in FreeNAS, it should last as long as the server, if not longer:

Boot drive: Intel SSD DC S3500 Series 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s, 20nm, MLC 80GB - - US $29.99
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273102509397

Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste Grease Conductive Compound for CPU/GPU - US $6.95
https://www.ebay.com/itm/302624513215

Just rough math in my head, I think that is all around $650.... Still, you might need some odd bits, and hard drives, but it should be simple to get there from here and this should save you a buck or two vs buying new and still do the job for years to come.