[HELP] Ryzen build - SAS controller and video card help

[Idaho121]

This is going to be a NAS and media server (Plex). Maybe sabnzbd/sonarr/couchpotato/etc...

 

What I've go so far:

Lian Li PC-P80

4x iStarUSA 5x3.5" Hot Swap cages

Ryzen 7 2700X

Wraith Prism cooler

Samsung 860 EVO 500gb

A whole bunch of WD Reds

EVGA SuperNova 750 P2 Fully Modular Power Supply

 

Ordered:

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 Desktop Memory Kit

MSI Performance GAMING AMD X470 Ryzen 2 AM4 DDR4 Onboard Graphics CFX ATX Motherboard

 

Need advice on:

1) Graphics card. My understanding is that I need this to POST since there's no on-board graphics. I was looking at EVGA GeForce 8400 GS 1024MB DDR3 PCI-E 2.0 Graphics Card DVI/HDMI/VGA 01G-P3-1302-LR

2) SAS Controller Card - This build will have 20 drives + 2 SSDs. I'm not sure what to get here.

 

Any help/thoughts would be appreciated!

[Jcloud]

19 hours ago, Idaho121 said:

Any help/thoughts would be appreciated!

Your video card looks fine to me, a cheapo for video - should work just fine.

19 hours ago, Idaho121 said:

2) SAS Controller Card - This build will have 20 drives + 2 SSDs. I'm not sure what to get here.

For the two SSDs general consensus seems to be to just have those on the SATA controller on your motherboard, and just keep the HBA card managing the hard drives. 

[Idaho121]

58 minutes ago, Jcloud said:

Your video card looks fine to me, a cheapo for video - should work just fine.

For the two SSDs general consensus seems to be to just have those on the SATA controller on your motherboard, and just keep the HBA card managing the hard drives. 

 

Two of these for the hard drives?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-H310-6Gbps-SAS-HBA-w-LSI-9211-8i-P20-IT-Mode-for-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID/162834659601?epid=19006955695&hash=item25e9b3b911:g:3TgAAOSwTf9ZWHPf:sc:USPSPriorityMailSmallFlatRateBox!10025!US!-1