Small styleish NAS build

[Aztec]

Hi, I currently own a Synology DS213J+ NAS I'm looking for something a little more powerful to run vms on and edit video off etc... I've came up with a PC part picker list. Please ignore the CPU choice it's a little over kill as it's for my PC as I'm using the one out of there. Link

Any advice or changes? Thanks!

[Jarsky]

With Ryzen 3rd gen due to launch very soon, you might want to look at the B450 series boards and consider waiting for the new CPU's to release? 

You probably want to use one of the G series CPU's which include graphics so you dont need a dedicated graphics card, and the new 3rd gen will mean a drop on 2nd gen, as well as the 3rd gen G series there are more offerings with more cores. 

 

P.S do you really need a 4x1Gbit adapter? 

 

[Aztec]

6 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

With Ryzen 3rd gen due to launch very soon, you might want to look at the B450 series boards and consider waiting for the new CPU's to release? 

You probably want to use one of the G series CPU's which include graphics so you dont need a dedicated graphics card, and the new 3rd gen will mean a drop on 2nd gen, as well as the 3rd gen G series there are more offerings with more cores. 

 

P.S do you really need a 4x1Gbit adapter? 

 

Hi,

Thanks for the reply that's good advice. I plan on getting the parts in a couple of months or something and some 2nd hand. In terms of network adapter, probably not however, I thought it would be better for speed and load balancing since I'd like to use the ssd for caching purposes. 

[Jarsky]

Just now, Aztec said:

Hi,

Thanks for the reply that's good advice. I plan on getting the parts in a couple of months or something and some 2nd hand. In terms of network adapter, probably not however, I thought it would be better for speed and load balancing since I'd like to use the ssd for caching purposes. 

It would only make a difference if you have multiple machines hitting it at the same time (assuming you aren't making LAG groups on a managed network switch). Even my house before with 3 of us being in IT, and having a 40TB Plex server with just 1 x 1Gbit port connected, we never ran into a problems. 

 

SSD caching, unless you are doing port bonding on both your source & destination, you'll still not go over ~125MB/s on a single transfer stream. SSD caching is kinda pointless on such small storage. 

[Aztec]

6 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

It would only make a difference if you have multiple machines hitting it at the same time (assuming you aren't making LAG groups on a managed network switch). Even my house before with 3 of us being in IT, and having a 40TB Plex server with just 1 x 1Gbit port connected, we never ran into a problems. 

 

SSD caching, unless you are doing port bonding on both your source & destination, you'll still not go over ~125MB/s on a single transfer stream. SSD caching is kinda pointless on such small storage. 

Fair enough. Is there any of achieving abouts 500mbs ish? I understand that'll be impossible with HDDs (unless in RAID i suppose) hence why I thought SSD would be appropriate. 

[Jarsky]

17 minutes ago, Aztec said:

Fair enough. Is there any of achieving abouts 500mbs ish? I understand that'll be impossible with HDDs (unless in RAID i suppose) hence why I thought SSD would be appropriate. 

Are you talking network transfer speeds? You either need a 10Gbit network or a managed switch that you can create LAG groups on, but of course then you need to do it for both the source and destination server. 

 

Or you mean 500MB/s locally? If you mean locally, theres no benefit in being able to do that speed, as if youre talking video rendering a Ryzen 5 will not be rendering fast enough to hit that kind of read/write speed. SSD caching does make sense for timeline scrubbing because of the low latency of SSD, but generally you need a dedicated SSD to assign it as a cache. HDD's are still capable of a couple of hundred MB/s

[Aztec]

39 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

Are you talking network transfer speeds? You either need a 10Gbit network or a managed switch that you can create LAG groups on, but of course then you need to do it for both the source and destination server. 

 

Or you mean 500MB/s locally? If you mean locally, theres no benefit in being able to do that speed, as if youre talking video rendering a Ryzen 5 will not be rendering fast enough to hit that kind of read/write speed. SSD caching does make sense for timeline scrubbing because of the low latency of SSD, but generally you need a dedicated SSD to assign it as a cache. HDD's are still capable of a couple of hundred MB/s

It was mainly just for file transfer e.g. clips from a pc locally. I have an overkill network switch already as i got a very good deal on it. I was hoping to use an SSD for timeline scrubbing too but was mainly so there would be no bottle neck for performance when editing or transfering files if i decide to edit locally (pc ssd).