Hello,
I am new here. Would like to ask you help me choose right mb and cpu. I did read quite a lot, browsed eshops checked benchmarks however as I dont really do these things, cannot really see the connection between hw capabilities and sw requirements and efficiency (from NAS point of view - simply not buying something unnecessarily powerful (electricity hungry) or weak)
What I want to build:
I would like to have NAS which would sync with my notebooks (NBs) and mobile. If possible, I would like to have the files accessible online as well. Do not own TV, so if I would be watching anything, than it would be on phone or nb. Regarding software, I am really new into this, but from what I learned so far, I would try TrueNAS (because of ZFS) heard syncthing is great as well, so I would need as well to learn how to run apps in docker in TrueNAS. With that, I dont really know what else I would run on that, I thought about my own Rust server (if that would be good idea from the point of security to have it on NAS), AIs suggested me wireguard as mean of connection to my NAS from outside (didn`t dive into that yet)... Now I am not sure, what MB to use. Do not want to make the post too long, I have my excel with options I came up with form AIs discussions and what is available on eshops (middle Europe i3 14100T is what I am most inclined into vs China N305 SoC mb) (using AIs - more or less giving all models same prompt and seeing how they would corelate or not, as I dont really have people around me to help me with this).
What I already have:
CASE: I already have case - sagittarius was my pick eventually. I will manufacture dust filters otherwise it looks perfect to me. With that comes limits:
HDDs: 12TB RED Western Digital
LIMITATIONS:
55mm total height of CPU (if PSU is installed, as there are SoC MBs with adapters..)
mATX or ITX MB format
money - if there is reason to buy it I will buy it, I would like to buy something which will server me for some time...
What I want:
Help
If someone please could help me, either steer my thinking into right direction, if I am not looking into whole this correctly or help me choose appropriate motherboard, cpu, or even PSU after those two are selected?
Thank you for your help!
Extra (background):
I got confused quite a lot, from what I read, many people (and AIs) commenting about C states how even sometimes those low power CPUs as N100 or N305 had trouble to go into lower C states... Then that it would be better to use actual branded MB (read on reddit that Gigabyte and ASUS have best BIOS for setting up things to achieve low C states easily) Then .. Although I found ASUS B760M PLUS WIFI II as best candidate (3x M.2 and 4x SATA) I learned that all those extra controllers etc would actually make electricity consumption higher and could block lower C states ... Found one server like as well ASUS Pro Q670M-C-CSM (1x M.2 and 6x SATA) for similar money, not sure if that would be good / better idea to buy. I found it beneficial for sever M.2 slots as you could buy extensions, make SSD running system to be as well on RAID1 etc... but that all might not be worth it considering other benefits when choosing different MB.. I just got lost into not sure what to actually pick
I am new here. Would like to ask you help me choose right mb and cpu. I did read quite a lot, browsed eshops checked benchmarks however as I dont really do these things, cannot really see the connection between hw capabilities and sw requirements and efficiency (from NAS point of view - simply not buying something unnecessarily powerful (electricity hungry) or weak)
What I want to build:
I would like to have NAS which would sync with my notebooks (NBs) and mobile. If possible, I would like to have the files accessible online as well. Do not own TV, so if I would be watching anything, than it would be on phone or nb. Regarding software, I am really new into this, but from what I learned so far, I would try TrueNAS (because of ZFS) heard syncthing is great as well, so I would need as well to learn how to run apps in docker in TrueNAS. With that, I dont really know what else I would run on that, I thought about my own Rust server (if that would be good idea from the point of security to have it on NAS), AIs suggested me wireguard as mean of connection to my NAS from outside (didn`t dive into that yet)... Now I am not sure, what MB to use. Do not want to make the post too long, I have my excel with options I came up with form AIs discussions and what is available on eshops (middle Europe i3 14100T is what I am most inclined into vs China N305 SoC mb) (using AIs - more or less giving all models same prompt and seeing how they would corelate or not, as I dont really have people around me to help me with this).
What I already have:
CASE: I already have case - sagittarius was my pick eventually. I will manufacture dust filters otherwise it looks perfect to me. With that comes limits:
HDDs: 12TB RED Western Digital
LIMITATIONS:
55mm total height of CPU (if PSU is installed, as there are SoC MBs with adapters..)
mATX or ITX MB format
money - if there is reason to buy it I will buy it, I would like to buy something which will server me for some time...
What I want:
Help
If someone please could help me, either steer my thinking into right direction, if I am not looking into whole this correctly or help me choose appropriate motherboard, cpu, or even PSU after those two are selected?
Thank you for your help!
Extra (background):
I got confused quite a lot, from what I read, many people (and AIs) commenting about C states how even sometimes those low power CPUs as N100 or N305 had trouble to go into lower C states... Then that it would be better to use actual branded MB (read on reddit that Gigabyte and ASUS have best BIOS for setting up things to achieve low C states easily) Then .. Although I found ASUS B760M PLUS WIFI II as best candidate (3x M.2 and 4x SATA) I learned that all those extra controllers etc would actually make electricity consumption higher and could block lower C states ... Found one server like as well ASUS Pro Q670M-C-CSM (1x M.2 and 6x SATA) for similar money, not sure if that would be good / better idea to buy. I found it beneficial for sever M.2 slots as you could buy extensions, make SSD running system to be as well on RAID1 etc... but that all might not be worth it considering other benefits when choosing different MB.. I just got lost into not sure what to actually pick
