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I apologize if I use terminology wrong this is effectively my first build. I finished building my server yesterday, and it will turn on to the BIOS but I can not get it to boot from my flash drive which has FreeNAS 11.1 OS on it. The mother board is a SuperMicro X11 SSH-F-O. I have found this thread saying I needed to update the BIOS / firmware (https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/freenas-11-fresh-install-wont-boot.55847/). My motherboard is currently running version R2.0a and the latest version is R2.0c. I downloaded the updated firmware (zip file) on to the same USB drive as the OS and extracted the files from that zip on to the USD drive. I restarting it several times with no luck of updating the firmware. As the end state I would like to run this server as a PLEX media server and also have the operating system run off of the SSD. The hardware for the build consists of: Motherboard: SuperMICRO X11SSH-F-O Power supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4 ghz LGA 1151 Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) HDD: WD Red 3 TB SSD: WD Black 256 GB M.2 Thank you in advanced.

@brob, Thanks for the advice. You're 100% right that I should go with the 2.5" SSD, I'm really just going for the M.2 for the cool new stuff factor and probably should dial back for my first build. I'll start looking into the alternate PSU's as well.

I'm starting to plan a NAS Media server to store mainly videos and music that I can run PLEX off of. I plan on having a max of four streams running at one time, and I would like to have the server rack mounted in a 2U space. To connect to the rest of the network I will attaching it to my Cisco SG200-26 smart switch. For operating system I would like to use Free NAS. This will be pretty much my first build, since my only other build was around 10 years ago. My part list currently consists of: Mother board: Supermicro MBD-X11SSH-F-0 Micro ATX Case: Rosewill Server Chassis RSV-Z2600 - 2U CPU Xeon E3-1230 V5 3.4 GHz Memory: x2 Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4 2133 288 pin (HX421C14fb2/8) HHD: x3 WD Red 3TB SSD: Samsung EVO m.2 2280 250GB PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G3 Some of my concerns revolve around the size of the PSU and compatibility between the M.2 SSD motherboard and CPU. Thank you in advanced