LoftyGoals
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I've read through the hardware guides and FAQs and I'm having trouble figuring out motherboards and CPUs are currently available. I get the sense that the primary cost driver is RAM and the most cost effective ECC RAM is DDR3. So if my goal is to build a system running:
Thank you!
-- Salvatore
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- TrueNAS CORE
- Borg server in a jail (needs 16 GB RAM, minimal CPU)
- 20 TB disk (6 x 8 TB RAIDZ2)
- absolutely important
- reliable (and, therefore, ECC)
- important
- runs comfortably
- runs quiet (will be in a living space)
- cost effective (not "budget" -- I will pay for a performant system but don't want to pay more than I need to)
- somewhat important
- reasonably cool (will be in a well ventilated space)
- expandable (don't want to max out motherboard)
- power consumption (I don't want to be wasteful but I care more about total cost of ownership than low electricity bills)
- unimportant
- physical size
Thank you!
-- Salvatore
smile.