November 12, 20214 yr Link to build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NwdcdD I am looking to upgrade my build for sadly the first time in about 8 years haha (maybe thats a good thing). Anyways, below is the run down, was wondering people's thoughts. I am hoping to hear overkill, since it's a first time in a while and I have a comfortable budget. The server is strictly a Plex/NZBGet/Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/various plex plugins machine. At any given time, I have 5-10 connections open to it from family members/friends. Strike thru's are the replaced parts green are parts being purchased CASE: Cooler Master COSMOS II 25th Anniversary Edition XL-ATX Full-Tower CASE MOD: SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B 3 x 5.25" to 5 x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA HDD Trays CPU: Intel i7-2600K Intel i7-11700K CPU COOLING: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition 42 CFM CPU Cooler MOBO: ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Gigabyte Z590 AORUS PRO AX ATX LGA1200 Motherboard MEMORY: 16GB DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaws V 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory PSU: Corsair RM850x W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply PCIE Cards: SYBA SI-PEX40071 8 Internal SATA III Ports PCI-Express Card, PCI-e x2 Slot I/O Crest 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x1 Supermicro AOC-S2308L-L8i PCIe 3.0 (8 internal SATA drives) Genuine LSI 9207-4i4e SAS HBA 6Gbps PCI-E 3.0 (4 internal, 4 external SATA drives) CACHE POOL: WD Black SN850 NVMe 1TB Crucial MX300 750GB PARITY: WD White WD140EDFZ-11A0VA0 14TB 5400rpm ARRAY: Disk 1: WD Red 4TB 5400rpm Disk 2: WD Red 4TB 5400rpm Disk 3: WD Ultrastar 8TB 5400rpm Disk 4: WD Red 8TB 5400rpm Disk 5: WD Blue 4TB 5400rpm Disk 6: WD Ultrastar 8TB 5400rpm Disk 7: WD Ultrastar 8TB 5400rpm Disk 8: WD Ultrastar 8TB 5400rpm Disk 9: HGST Deskstar 5K4000 4TB 5700rpm Disk 10: WD Red 4TB 5400rpm Disk 11: HGST Deskstar 5K4000 4TB 5700rpm Disk 12: TOSHIBA MD04ACA400 4TB 7200rpm Disk 13: WD White WD140EDGZ-11B1PA0 14TB 7200rpm Also, regarding the cache pool... is it recommended? Can I have my appdata on the NVMe drive while my downloads go to my old SSD? Or should I just do the one MVMe drive? EDIT: Changed Motherboard and RAM out to something a bit better. Edited November 22, 20214 yr by wickedathletes
November 19, 20214 yr yep, overkill. And that's pretty much the case for 90%+ of the builds here, ... hence ignore the first line. We all like decent hardware, dont we? Regarding NVME caching. I'd go for two similar SSDs for a Raid 1, or 4 similar for Raid 0+1. The latter is my config - 4x 960GB in Raid 0+1. I have my appdata on cache only (and backed up to array). Depending on your share config you can of course direct services to specific shares which dont use the cache. I am doing this for one of my Backup shares. I would review the drive setup and consolidate there if you have budget left.
November 22, 20214 yr Author On 11/19/2021 at 9:42 AM, doesntaffect said: yep, overkill. And that's pretty much the case for 90%+ of the builds here, ... hence ignore the first line. We all like decent hardware, dont we? Regarding NVME caching. I'd go for two similar SSDs for a Raid 1, or 4 similar for Raid 0+1. The latter is my config - 4x 960GB in Raid 0+1. I have my appdata on cache only (and backed up to array). Depending on your share config you can of course direct services to specific shares which dont use the cache. I am doing this for one of my Backup shares. I would review the drive setup and consolidate there if you have budget left. I believe my case can hold 18 drives total, I need to double check that as it will determine if I buy 2 internal only HBA cards or one with some externals for future growth. My storage is full, so unfortunately removing drives isn't really an option as when I replace one I only gain 10TB - 6TB each time. Data hoarding is a serious issue.
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