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  1. I'll start with the bareminimum then, ordering a new 16gb sandisk ultra as well (for 7eu, actual lowest size I could find for a namebrand still) Just ordered the 2 drives with some luck I will have them tomorrow night. Thanks for all your help.
  2. Alright, I will start off with the 2 HDDs and try out both unraid and truenas (I keep seeing truenas being used in LTT videos, even though they sometimes list unraid in the descriptions), I also forgot to note: I am not a complete noob to linux (mostly ubuntu stuff) so having to do a bit of command line stuff shouldn't be a massive issue for me. I will start with unraid and try my luck if it serves all of my needs. Is there any special req for the usb drives or can I just litterly use one of just a few gb? Thanks for pointing out the boot drive wont be needed for an unraid server, forgot it runs in ram. I'll just format the older 128gb ssd and see if I can attach that as some additional write cache or something, to get any use out of it. Thanks for all your feedback and inputs, I'll order the 2 HDDs soon and to get started.
  3. Sorry, forgot to note, in my current situation I am able to use my gaming tower but in a few months I will be moving and I am not sure if I have enough room for this massive pc case in the same room as my modem will be, will need to figure that out but it means I may need to shift to a smaller case down the line. Either way, starting off with the 2 HDDs (since they are mirrored I should have increased read speeds) and going to see what the performance is like for me, if I do need to improve it down the line I may opt to adding 2 SSDs as well and splitting it into multiple network drives (a fast/small and large/slower) to serve both my needs. Thanks for all of your inputs!
  4. I don't need alot right now, but in the future I would like to keep the option to expand and store more data, also something in me feels like SSDs are a bit less reliable or durable maybe? I could be completely wrong though, they are for sure more rigid and can withstand being moved more easily. They are significantly more expensive though, I would pay 25% more for 2 1TB SSDs than 2 4TB HDDs, and similairly to what I pointed out in the OP, I would hate to have to ditch the drives later on because there is no more physical space left in the rig and they are "too small". Truenas also didn't really like different drive sizes as far as I understand? But unraid did not care that much? Perhaps another reason I could go for unraid instead
  5. Mostly files of only a few kb in size, could be text/code files, models, and other data cramped into weird custom binary formats, I may also have some pictures and recordings/clips but this is a drop in the bucket compared to what a professional photographer or video editor would have. Also, my bad, after doing some more digging into cache drives they indeed do not seem to matter too much for my solution at this time, as it is recommended to increase your RAM first (this would also hold some frequently accessed files? which should be faster than the ssd) I will look a bit more into unraid as well then, which one would you say is "easier" to setup/work with for someone completely new to this? I may be looking to buy the drives soon and build it on the old rig for trying things out, but since it has so little ram (not looking to purchase upgrades on that) I may bite the bullet and just upgrade the system with my 3700X (since the 5900X seems to be on sale now for 380 euros), I was thinking of using these parts: -ASRock B550M Steel Legend (ECC memory, 2.5 gig LAN) (150 euros) -2x Kingston 16GB ECC DDR4-3200 (2x 100-110 euros) And I may chuck in a new m.2 boot drive as well at that point for 30-40 bucks (crucial p2 250gb for 38)
  6. Thanks for your feedback! The ssd cache I thought would have a good impact if working with the files from the nas directly constantly, having the increased speeds of a ssd versus the slower hdd speeds would be a huge plus, even if they aren't massive files, the opening/closing and writing to of them consistently should be much faster on a ssd right? Expanding wise is not a huge must, if I go for the 2x 4TB I am already starting with much more data than I require. If I were to expand I would most likely just buy another of the same 4TB seagate ironwolf (I heard truenas prefers having all drives of the same size), I would assume adding 1 more (of the same) drives to the list would not be a massive undertaking? I don't care if it takes a little bit of work to configure but I would assume this wouldn't mean I need to backup and restore all of my data?
  7. I just managed to boot back in, not sure why, I tried numerous times last night and it did not work and decided I should just go to bed. It started and I forgot to press the F12 fast enough, so it continued, it tried to "Fix the problems" and the recovery options loaded, it gave me the option to recover from a cd/usb, so I selected that and put in my usb drive. It booted to the desktop without any more prompts, and seems to work just fine now (took out the usb and also able to restart the pc now) I've been digging through the Event viewer, but can't find anything regarding the crash, I could only find some warnings from 35 minutes earlier. There was an error from today though (few hours earlier, I would assume while I was in ubuntu as I did not even attempt to boot into windows today?) which simply said "The last shutdown from the system (TIME OF CRASH) happened unexpectedly." Any other way to figure out what the error message was or if I should go for a clean install later
  8. Hey all, Last night while playing some COD MW, my pc suddenly got a BSOD, it went away very quickly, far too fast for me to even see the error message below I barely noticed the Afterwards it tried restarting, it showed the AORUS logo, but then it never showed the loading icon, and after a few minutes it would say "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" When entering the BIOS, it shows my CPU, RAM and both M.2 drives. I tried to using a Windows 10 recovery USB to do a startup repair but it simply said this pc could not be fixed. I managed to access my PC using an ubuntu live usb, and have started making backups of all my important files, which seems to work fine (so the drives do not seem to be (completely) dead) Is there a way for me to still try to repair windows? If I have to I could attempt a fresh install, however I have this uncanny itching feeling that I will forget to backup something, so if theres a way around it that would be great. I am not sure what else could be broken, it seems like either my boot drive is failing OR the windows install corrupted, is there a way for me to access the system logs (from ubuntu live perhaps?) to see the cause of the blue screen? Thank you all, EDIT: It seemed to fix it self once, for some strange reason. I went into startup repair (not from a usb boot drive but on the device itself) which allowed it to boot again, everything seemed to work like normal (managed to reboot a few times etc) After playing the same video game again for a while, the same thing happened again. Still unable to enter recovery mode at this point, but all individual components still seem to function fine. I now get a fully blue screen (no text or anything) after the bios post screen. While the PC was working just fine I used crystaldiskinfo which said the health of the m.2 drive was still 99%
  9. Hey everyone, While I have been watching many videos from LTT about their wide variety of NAS setups over the years (and wanting to make one myself), I finally decided to bite the bullet and do it. There are however some "requirements" for me I would like to be able to do with it as well, and I am not sure to what ends this could be achieved. I have heard about truenas and unraid, and while I still do not fully understand the differences between the both of them, I've heard more about truenas recently and it seems like they offer more options, so I am assuming I would be using that (if my wishlist fits more into a different software, please let me know) I would like to: -Be able to work with the files live (as I work from home and have 2 devices, a desktop and a laptop, I would like my files to stay continuously synced across these devices if possible, so working from a network attached drive seems the way to go, in the future I believe running a custom vpn on the nas and using that to connect to it with the laptop remotely should still be able to safely grant me access to it from what I have read so far) -Have at least a bit of redundancy with extra hdd's, as the nas would also contain important work files I do not want to lose -The ability to create a zip/targz from a certain folder with a password and upload this to a cloud storage solution (onedrive, google drive, dropbox) on a weekly basis (so I have the most important files backed up offsite incase of a fire or something, but still password protected incase of another icloud leak etc) -Possibly in the future run either a media server and/or a small minecraft server (household access only) I do not require a ton of storage, while I do have quite many many files (100s of thousands, if not million) these are all quite tiny and do not use that much space. Until I would turn it into a media server, so the option to extend it in the future would be nice. A couple 100 GBs should be enough to start with, potentially 1TB should last me for a long time. I am assuming from my wish list I will need at least 1 ssd for cached storage, to be able to work with the files fast enough. (Working with hdd speeds would be very tedious), my budget is flexible, I would like to start out at least on the cheap end but I am willing to invest into future proofing. Ps. My desktop is currently running a 3700X, I was eventually planning on upgrading this to a 5000 series cpu as this would still fit my socket, so I may do that sooner rather than later and could free up this cpu to use in my server instead. EDIT: I still have an old "gaming" pc that I may use as the base, it has 8 drive bays and dust filters on all the intakes. Hardware wise, it contains: -AMD FX-8120 (first eight core cpu) -970 Extreme3 -2x 4GB Corsair DDR3 1333 MHz CL9 (CMV4GX3M1A1333C9) -Radeon HD 6570 Club -Chronos 120 GB SSD (very old I will probably just replace) I don't think the GPU would matter that much, at least until it becomes a media server, and even then the encoding on that may be sufficient? I feel like this would be sufficient for a standard nas, but not sure if it will be sufficient if I would like to work from it on the fly. Would a SATA SSD (not this one) be sufficient for caching in this situation? My current plan would consist of utilizing that pc, removing the existing storage and adding: 1x WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD, 2,5 SATA, 500 GB (€70) 2x Seagate 4 TB IronWolf 3,5 inch hdd (5900 RPM, 64 MB cache, 180 TB/year, tot 180 MB/s), zilver (€100 each, 1 to use and 1 for redundancy) Cost wise the 1TB ones are already 60eu and I couldn't really justify paying either 60 for 1TB or 80 for 2TB if 4TB costs 100, and I could potentially run out of physical space having to replace them in the future) EDIT2: Would I (besides the SSD I use for caching) also require a seperate boot drive? Or could this be on the same?
  10. I signed up to VEEAM and might give it a try, still waiting on an e-mail confirmation though
  11. As far as I know, you would need either multiple drives or a network location, which is not really viable for me as I am currently looking for a laptop solution.
  12. I am looking for some decent backup software (preferably free) that only updates a couple of selected paths (recursively). These folders do not contain huge amounts of data (usually only a few mb's as they are code projects) And preferably, the backup software should not blatantly overwrite older versions (if a file becomes corrupted, and the backup automatically overwrites it what is the point of the backup system anymore). My biggest request would be these backups should be somewhat smart and lightweight, I have disliked alot of cloud syncing tools like onedrive in the past, as it usually feels like its just hogging up resources constantly. I do not require immediate backups either, setting something up that runs their job every 24 hours (or even every few days/weekly) would be more than sufficient for me. Mostly I am just curious what you fellow LTT'ers use in your day to day for back ups?
  13. Thank you very much I think I will be following your advice on the first setup, and probably get a X570 regardless, incase I want to do further upgrading down the line it would save alot of hassle having to take everything apart again EDIT: For the B450 I noticed you suggested MSI's but the X570 you suggested a gigabyte aorus still, was that intentional? I noticed they also have MSI MPG X570 GAMING PRO CARBON WIFI ( https://www.alternate.nl/product/0/43/1555205 ) Would this be much better than the aorus? EDIT2: I just noticed the allowed RAM for the MSI MPG is not as high, so I would probably go for gigabyte x570 regardless On another note; unfortunately the 3 SSDs you shared all had delivery time unknown (which is probably why they didn't show up in the pc builder)
  14. TX550M it is , Since I am going for a RGB setup, I would go for the G.Skill trident RGB ones, for some reason the F4-3200C16D-32GTZRX is cheaper than the F4-3200C16D-32GTZR, (but this is probably just me thinking X means better/newer version) The versions I found (sorry, this is a huge list required some digging): Gainward Gain8GB D6 RTX 2070 (€570) Palit GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GamingPro OC (€550) Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Phoenix (€540) ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GAMING (€510) Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Phoenix GS (€500) Palit GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GamingPro (€485) GIGABYTE AORUS GeForce RTX 2060 AORUS SUPER (€480) GIGABYTE GiBy8GB D6 RTX 2070 Windforce 2X 8G (€480) ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER O8G GAMING (€480) MSI GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GAMING X (€475) ASUS GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER DUAL O8G EVO (€470) GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GAMING OC (€460) Palit GeForce RTX 2060 Dual OC 6G (€450) Palit GeForce RTX 2060 StormX OC (€450) MSI GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER VENTUS OC (€440) Gainward GeForce RTX 2060 Ghost OC 6GB (€440) GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER WINDFORCE OC (€430) GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2060 OC 6G (€350) But I would prefer to only spend 300-400 on a graphics card (could go a little over 400, but I would rather not spend 500 or more) as this is pretty much not that important to me (I am not a PC gamer) but I also don't want to cheap out on it too much and GPUs have more use and I might actually game on it at some point for a little bit. (And I would feel bad getting such an expensive PC, and have it incapable of handling games atleast decently), which is why I am in doubt about the last 2 on the list (the super windforce oc vs the "normal" oc), if the super windforce is notably better (which I am assuming it is from previous comments) I would probably opt for that one Unfortunately I could not find an EX920 or 660P in the list, besides the previously listed (Aorus and 970 Plus), there is also the option of going for a "normal" 970 Samsung 970 EVO, 1 TB(MZ-V7E1T0BW, M.2 (2280)), which will save me roughly 50 bucks over the other 2 (and if this works well in combination with the B450 instead of X570, I might just go for that combination and save roughly 150. Tevens goedenavond (ik was even avondeten) EDIT: I updated the main post with my current build I have in mind (going to sleep on it for a bit, and watch the sales coming up soon, but the build will probably be something similar to that) Thank you all for your inputs you have been of great helm and assistance
  15. I couldn't the G.Skill Aegis of that type, but I did find the following 3 of G.Skill: G.Skill 32 GB DDR4-3200 Kit (F4-3200C16D-32GTZR, Trident Z RGB) G.Skill 32 GB DDR4-3200 Kit (F4-3200C16D-32GTZRX, Trident Z RGB) G.Skill 32 GB DDR4-3200 Kit (F4-3200C16D-32GVK, Ripjaws V, XMP) I have no idea what the difference between these types is haha (nor could I speak performance wise, comparing to my initial pick as well, my initial pick was done because I assumed Corsair was a good brand, and the memory was Ryzen optimized) Unfortunately, I could not find that Crucial P1 NVMe (or any NVMe from Crucial), if not going out of my way and getting parts elsewhere, I would probably go for the one I initially selected (GIGABYTE AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD (220 euro), or the Samsung 970 EVO Plus (which seems to be slower, specs wise (5000Mb/s vs 3500 Mb/s on the evo, while the price is also 225) Or as a third option, if I do decide to cheap out (and get a B450 instead of X570, just get a normal SSD (Samsung evo) instead of NVMe) (I have a 1 TB 860 Evo in my laptop, which I have really enjoyed as an upgrade on this machine, so I trust the Evo series alot, but price wise, unless the Aorus seems to be poor quality, I would like to go for that route) Moving on, A question about GPUs, I see some are branded with GIGABYTE and some with MSI (And even Palit and Gainward (never heard of before)), however pricing and details seem the same (the visual appearance on pictures vary), this is pretty new to me and I assumed a NVIDIA gpu had their branding on it, and now I am slightly confused.. Which should I be looking for preferably? I also noticed some are called Super Armor, another Super Gaming, and a third Windforce. I am assuming these are different (or later) versions? RTX 2070 Supers are 550-580 euros RTX 2070 480-500 euros RTX 2060 Supers are 460-500 euros (I saw one RTX 2060 350-400 euros However I found some 2060 Supers that seemed to be outliers? (These are all 425 each): MSI GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER ARMOR OC MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Super Ventus GP OC 8GB INNO3D GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Compact I would rather not go too huge on a graphics card, as my gaming would be to a minimal and who knows with the fluctating bitcoin prices this may drop alot again in the future. My current choice would probably be the MSI GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER ARMOR OC (one of the "outliers" it seems?) I am not sure what the real difference with the Super Ventus is, but it "looks" cooler, and apparantly I am getting a free CoD MW with it as well (lol look at me falling for the bait) (the link for this specific one is (incase you want to check it out): https://www.alternate.nl/product/0/47/1561672 ) And lastly PSU units, I looked at your picks, and ones in the PSU tier list referred to by @LukeSavenije, I compiled a list of options that seem similar: Corsair CX550M (72 euro) Corsair CX750M (95 euro) Corsair TX550M (73 euro) Corsair TX750M (95 euro) Corsair TX850M (108 euro) After double checking I noticed, Corsair TX550M (73 euro), is the exact one you selected (parts numbers match up too from partpicker), this one is also on the PSU tier list and I will probably be going for this option then (unless you would highly advice, going for the 750 at this point with some of the changes I have made)
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