It’s been quite some time i dealt with hardware. I’d like to think i’ve chosen a “close to future proof” parts for my needs, however, i’m pretty sure i might made some mistakes. For that I’m humbly requesting your expert feedback to find the flows in this build 🙏🏼
Config: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6L884M
As silent as possible, compact but good airflow(hence less power hungry, right?). Im open to change anything. But hear me out:
- NAS for media (movies + music + photo album)
- i do code, quite a lot and want to make use of virtualization hence probably dockers for pet projects (nothing crazy)
- no media editing whatsoever, just maybe occasional pic and video trims from family trips and prepare photo albums
- went with intel to avoid purchasing a GPU for hw transcoding, also for virtualisation
- added one M2 for OS and other apps
- maybe in future i can add a SSD or use the m2_2 not sure yet. (30 TB available space from Raid 5 should last me quite long tbh)
- empty PCIe slots for possible expansion or network card maybe.
- i’ll most likely make use of on board wifi 6
- it’ll probably run 5 days a week on average so i tried to consider low power consumption but i’m not sure if i’ve done a good job.
- OS i want to go for is True NAS Core with RAID5 using 4x10TB (mixed toshiba and WD to increase fault tolerance)
- wish this case had hot swap cage tho :(
Thank you very much in adv🙏🏼
A very fine build! 👌 To be quite honest, maybe a little over-spec:ed for this fairly light use-case/purpose (price, power usage). But that does mean that you’ll have plenty of room for growth; virtualization etc
thank you. i know its a bit overkill now but like you said, i was aiming for growth. the PCI slots are all empty now. I’ll see if i’ll be adding extra storage, network card or GPU… thanks for your comment
I just hope you can find these toshibas at a reasonable price lol. Looks good.
I’d say it’s a very good choice for an expert if you want the archives localized. If it’s always up, you might run into future problems running online. Especially when going through various pirate servers. Some viruses last forever. You’ll never get rid of them. A good place to start from an expert perspective would be to go for high spec games and let it run its lifespan. That way it’ll put in good use without seeming like an easy target for hackers once you find data that’s just too good to be true. The less data you leave out in the open, the better the hoard since it won’t be easily damaged by uptime errors or if you run a download server, only include enough that you know you won’t lose it later on.
Data hoarding doesn’t take much, you could use a phone….
thank you for your comment and the details you provided. so thats where the virtualization comes into picture right? I’m not planning to give drive access to all the pods running in this server. I have an SSD lying around for temp storage. Say, i’d hoard some stuff then either i’ll manually move them to RAID area or probably do some batch jobs to do that. I also use ProtonVPN so that should be one layer of protection. I’m not sure if i’ll set up a firewall too but i guess we’ll see down the line. I’m guessing i’ll need to add additional network card for that. I didn’t get what you meant by high spec games but basically %90 of the storage will be internal LAN only. whats the best practice on these?
Looks great! I would definitely also recommend looking on eBay for some used EPYC CPU + motherboard + RAM combos. I got one of those for a friend, and for like $1000 we got him a high core count, high RAM count system.