Hello and thanks for reading.  Newbie here, if you have time, care to comment on new build and changes you might make? 

Past: Freenas (got sick of samba permissions); present: Synology (it's fine); Future: Unraid (easy to grow, less wear on drives, more control)

 

Current:

• NAS (Synology)
  • 4x 3TB, 2 parity drives ~6T storage total,
  • Essential: 3.5T used
  • Nonessential: (media etc) 4TB stored on 8TB external USB 
  • Local backup of essential to external USB 4T 
  • Cloud backup everything to Crashplan 
  • Backups and storage locations are a bit of a mess
• App server hosting VM/Docker, inc Plex (ubuntu)
• 10Gb switch, app server, one music/video production workstation all with SFP+ 10gbe

 

Requirements:

• Already have Ubuntu application server severing VMs and Docker (inc plex)
  • No high-resource need for VM/docker on unraid at this time, but may want to use in future to grow experiment over time and no desire to combine file server and app server at this time
• Same space or more without too much more money (based on drive cost)
• 10gbe 
• iGPU
• Looking to future:
  • Support Win 11 
  • Slots for HBA, GPU (and 10gbe above)

Desired:

• Would like all machines inc App Server's Docker and VMs and wife's Music/video production to read/write directly from file server
• 10gbe >300Mb/s for read/write (though I know 10gbe is tricky with Unraid)
• Trying to keep cost down

 

BUILD:

• CPU: Intel Core i5-9600KF  - Would an i3 be fine here (knowing I have an upgrade path in the future?
• MB: Gigabyte C246-WU4 - has the slots, m.2, and ecc support for possible future expansion
• HBA: none (will use board SATA headers, but want to allow for future expansion)
• 10gbe: 10Gb PCI-E NIC Network Card, Single SFP+ Port, with Intel 82599EN
• Drives:
  • 2 x 3TB WD Red as storage drives - do I need Pro?
  • 1 X 4TB WD Red as parity
  • 1 x Samsung 980 500GB NVME as Cache
• PSU: Corsair RM 650W Modular
• Cooling??

 

So I think I'm in the ballpark (or at least the parking lot), but with so many CPU/MB/Drive choices I'm sure I'm not on field, I'd love to hear anyone else's insight as I'm not in this space as much as many are.

Thanks so much for those that give your time to help out muppets like me! It's REALLY appreciated!

 

 

 

i5-9600KF "F" means no iGPU,

Although C246-WU4 look like have many PCIe slot, but why use fade-out LGA-1151 platform ? It really hard to upgrade even just parts replacement.

Edited February 1, 20224 yr by Vr2Io

Thanks for the reply!

 

Thanks about the CPU.   

 

So I notice there are at least two types of NAS builders 1) the buy-the-5-year-old-hardware-types (oft hang out in serverbuilds) 2) the buy-the-newest-stuff types and (everywhere in between).  I don't mind being more of Type 1 and sacrifice fade-out if i can swap to i7 in 3 years (if needed) and save some bucks.  That said, I'm CERTAIN I also don't fully understand my options. 

It looks like I can get a new MB and used cpu off ebay for around 300-350 USD.  Is there a combo you would recommend that is around the same price (that has my slot requirements) that I should consider?

 

 

So looks like:
 

•    Asus PRIME Z590-A ATX LGA1200
•     Intel Core i5-10400

would be a newer generation (lga1200) at about the same price (or slightly more). 

 

Thoughts?  Or I'm happy to entertain other options (with so many choices, I'm doing a bit of rolling of dice on pcpartpicker). 

3 hours ago, 53kl2s said:

So looks like:
 

•    Asus PRIME Z590-A ATX LGA1200
•     Intel Core i5-10400

would be a newer generation (lga1200) at about the same price (or slightly more). 

 

Thoughts?  Or I'm happy to entertain other options (with so many choices, I'm doing a bit of rolling of dice on pcpartpicker). 

 

This ASUS Prime Z590-A looks good, Windows11 ready, support PCIe bifurcation and price reasonable. Sure it cheaper then previous 9th GEN platform. I generally love Asus prime series mobo and have two. The three 16x slot config in 8-4-4, that's fine in general.

 

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, 53kl2s said:

Thoughts?  Or I'm happy to entertain other options (with so many choices, I'm doing a bit of rolling of dice on pcpartpicker). 

 

My last upgrade was happen at 9th GEN period, so I seldom check on 10, 11, 12th ..... During upgrade, I reading lot of mobo manual really make me cracy.

Edited February 2, 20224 yr by Vr2Io