wickedathletes Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by wickedathletes Quote Link to comment
doesntaffect Posted November 19, 2021 Share Posted November 19, 2021 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
wickedathletes Posted November 22, 2021 Author Share Posted November 22, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
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