Hi everyone
Been following STH a long time, the time has come for registration and first post!
Build’s Name: S.M.A.S.H. (Small Multipurpose AMD Server Hardware)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: CentOS, FreeNAS as a VM
CPU: AMD Ryzen 1400
Motherboard: Asus Prime B350M-A
Chassis: Fractal Design Core 1500 Mini Tower
Drives: Toshiba 128GB SSD, 4 x Seagate IronWolf ST4000 (4GB)
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws V (upgrade to 32GB if necessary )
Add-in Cards: Some Intel Quad Port NIC
Power Supply: Corsair SF450
Other Bits: Will be connected to existing Network Equipment (Cisco 867VAE and Cisco SG350-10)
Usage Profile:
Been following STH a long time, the time has come for registration and first post!
Build’s Name: S.M.A.S.H. (Small Multipurpose AMD Server Hardware)
Operating System/ Storage Platform: CentOS, FreeNAS as a VM
CPU: AMD Ryzen 1400
Motherboard: Asus Prime B350M-A
Chassis: Fractal Design Core 1500 Mini Tower
Drives: Toshiba 128GB SSD, 4 x Seagate IronWolf ST4000 (4GB)
RAM: 16 GB G.Skill Ripjaws V (upgrade to 32GB if necessary )
Add-in Cards: Some Intel Quad Port NIC
Power Supply: Corsair SF450
Other Bits: Will be connected to existing Network Equipment (Cisco 867VAE and Cisco SG350-10)
Usage Profile:
- MS VMs (AD, etc.)
- FreeNAS
- Remote Access
- VPN
- pfSense
- ...
- The data is not critical (ZFS without ECC Memory)
- Has to be silent!
- The plan is to install CentOS on the SSDand FreeNAS as a VM handling the Seagates with direct hw access.
- Dunno about the case fans, they will probably be replaced by some Noctua.
- I'll try to leave the CPU fanless by using the Thermalright HR-02 or the Le Grande Macho RT if it gets too hot.
- most of the stuff was bought used, could change some if needed
- Which Intel NIC?
- Raid Add-in Card or not?
- Has anyone running a FreeNAS VM with CentOS as a host? Good or bad idea?