Dear all,
I'm currently running Proxmox with Plex and HA (home Assistant) - never got NC (Nextcloud) running properly - on some old hardware (Z77, 2600K). It's time for a new built from scratch
Low Power consumption and Virtualization capability of CPU and more Cores for VMs are the drivers here. Therefore no older server platforms.
I'm planning to switch to TrueNAS Scale OS and run NC, HA, PLEX from there! Objective is to build a robust home server for the next 5 years.
First: easy topics
Questions from my end:
Looking forward to hear your opinions and thank you
Alexander
I'm currently running Proxmox with Plex and HA (home Assistant) - never got NC (Nextcloud) running properly - on some old hardware (Z77, 2600K). It's time for a new built from scratch
Low Power consumption and Virtualization capability of CPU and more Cores for VMs are the drivers here. Therefore no older server platforms.
I'm planning to switch to TrueNAS Scale OS and run NC, HA, PLEX from there! Objective is to build a robust home server for the next 5 years.
First: easy topics
- Case
- I want to build a SFF Server and I think the Intertech IM-1 Pocket with 20L would do the job
- minimum mATX mainboard
- ATX power supply fits
- Hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration, including boot drives:
- OS (TrueNAS): SATA SSD - single or mirror - is 128GB sufficient for TrueNAS?
- VMs: NVME boot drive (2x 1TB Samsung 970 EVO - PCIe x3.0) - mirrored
- Storage Pool: 4x 16-18TB in ZFS pool - striped mirrored vDev
- CMR, Helium, 512e, e.g. Toshiba Enterprise
- Hard disk controllers:
- Mainboard SATA ports should be sufficient in terms of number
- Any benefit of HBA Controller card in terms of speed vs. Mainboard SATA?
- Network cards:
- PCIe 10GbE - probably X520-DA2
- RAM quantity:
- 2x16GB, or 4x 16GB
- DDR4 ECC, or DDR5 ECC (on-die ECC is not meeting my requirements for data integrity)
- Motherboard make and model
- mATX motherboard
- AM4, e.g. Asrock Rack X470D4U
- wait for AM5 if DDR5 ECC is available soon
- Intel socket 1700 (W680 chipset to gain ECC support)
- 4x RAM would be nice
- 2x NVME
- 6-8x SATA
- mATX motherboard
- CPU make and model
- 6c/12T with iGPU (if no Mainboard with GPU) and ECC support
- AMD Pro 5650G
- Intel 12500/12600 (with W680 mainboard) - Quicksync might be useful if I would like to use Plex Hardware transcoding
- Intel Xeon E-2336 with C252/256 Mainboard - no quicksync
- 6c/12T with iGPU (if no Mainboard with GPU) and ECC support
Questions from my end:
- Which combination of Mainboard, RAM and CPU would you choose?
- Any information about broader availability of DDR5 ECC?
- Are there any hardware restrictions regarding TrueNAS scale OS (e.g. PCIe NIC chip)?
Looking forward to hear your opinions and thank you
Alexander