Looking to update my hardware. Any advice on this build?

[adub]

Hey

I currently have a really old PC running UnRAID on it and am wanting to upgrade to something more usable. Would like to get your guy's thoughts on this build and if there are any changes you might make. I have a hand full of small drives already so the 2 drives in the build would be for a cache drive and then a parity drive.

 

Use Case:

90% of the use will be Plex/storage with the arrs doing a direct stream (4k and 1080). There might be the odd streaming.

Would like to get more docker applications to play around with.

4-5 VM to play around in. Nothing that would be on all the time and that would take up a substantial amount of resources.

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/JXcrmr

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-10600K 4.1 GHz 6-Core Processor ($212.50 @ shopRBC)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition 42 CFM CPU Cooler ($89.99 @ Amazon Canada)

Motherboard: ASRock B460M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory ($118.17 @ Amazon Canada)

Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($74.00 @ shopRBC)

Storage: Seagate IronWolf Pro 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($159.99 @ Memory Express)

Case: Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($172.98 @ Newegg Canada)

Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2021) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($134.99 @ Memory Express)

Total: $962.62

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

[trurl]

12 minutes ago, adub said:

hand full of small drives already

How many, how old, and how small? Are you sure they are in good health? Parity disk by itself can't rebuild anything. All bits of all disks in the array must be reliably read in order to reliably rebuild a failed disk.

[adub]

I have about 8 1tb. Some are quite old so I'm sure the health on some of them would not be good. 

[trurl]

I always recommend fewer larger disks instead of more smaller disks. Each additional disk requires more hardware, more power, at some point more license, and each additional disk is an additional point of failure. Larger disks perform better due to increased data density.

 

At the very least you should thoroughly test your disks with preclear or something before trusting them in the array.

40 minutes ago, trurl said:

All bits of all disks in the array must be reliably read in order to reliably rebuild a failed disk.

 

[KingfisherUK]

On 7/2/2022 at 11:21 PM, trurl said:

I always recommend fewer larger disks instead of more smaller disks. Each additional disk requires more hardware, more power, at some point more license, and each additional disk is an additional point of failure. Larger disks perform better due to increased data density.

 

 

100% agree with this - recently went from 22 x 4TB + 2 x 6TB parity to 5 x 18TB + 1 x 18TB parity and the power consumption difference was noticeable.