skatrek

Good point, I was initially thinking I'd do SAS3 drives, but I probably don't actually need that (just to build "enterprise" street cred ;). And I agree with the SFP+/DAC approach, I probably will go that route, swapping out for a Mellanox ConnectX-4. Seems fair, I will probably end up running TrueNAS on bare metal then since the VM part is more of a for-fun approach, so I can try other OSes and play around. The NAS functionality will be the main functionality so I can serve media to my main computer and TVs. Based on more reading & suggestions about Intel for QuickSync, I'm now looking at a Xeon E-2324G and Supermicro X12STH-F combination. That also brings the cost down a few hundred $$$. Just out of curiosity, why wouldn't you recommend not using Epyc for NAS/Backup/Plex? Do you know or have any thoughts about the Seagate self-encrypting drives? That seems to be the difference between ST16000NM001G and ST16000NM003G, for example.

Thank you so much for this advice! I'll do some more reading and looking into some of your suggestions... you've given me lots to think about!

Hi everyone, long-time lurker, first-time poster... I've been trying to read a lot and learn what might be a good build for me. I'm coming from a Synology DS920 NAS and Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q Tiny running Debian, and want to upgrade to a single unit using more enterprise-level hardware. Does anyone have thoughts on my proposed build? I have 1Gbps fiber internet and am looking to upgrade my internal 1Gbps Ethernet build an internal 10Gbps network to improve speed between my daily driver Mac Studio and the NAS (unfortunately the DS920 doesn't support upgrading to 10Gbps). My proposed application is to run UnRAIDwith a TrueNAS VM (still looking into this since it seems to be not recommended) and another Linux VM for my Docker containers. Currently using things like Actual, Home Assistant, Immich, Jellyfin, Joplin, Shiori, Vikunja, Stirling PDF, Paperless... I plan to stream media to a 4K TV from Jellyfin and edit videos on the Mac with DaVinci Resolve with video stored on the server. I know the hardware is probably overkill, but I want to use it to learn and expand for the future. Most of what I'm looking at is used on eBay, with a few Newegg/Amazon components (Mobo, RAM, SSD) Thanks! CPU: AMD EPYC 7302P Motherboard: Asrock Rack ROMED8-2 RAM: Atech 128 GB ECC kit CPU cooler: SuperMicro SNK-P0063AP4 Case: SuperMicro CSE-826BE1C-R920LPB with 2x 920W PSU and BPN-SAS3-826EL1 Backplane HBA: LSI 9311-8i USB stick: Samsung MUF-256AB/AM FIT Plus 256GB SSD: HP EX900 1TB NIC: X710-DA2 Hard Drives: 4x 16TB Seagate Exos Enterprise X18 to start with and expand with time (a big reason I'm choosing UnRAID over Proxmox on bare metal)