"smallish" truenas build

[19_blackie_73]

Hi there,

 

I'm currently looking into a building a long term safe storage / nas system for occasional data access and data integrity checks. Currently I have an offer for a Z270 board with a Pentium G4400, and for storage I'm planning for 4x4TB raid z1 WD Reds. Does the Pentium G4400 do well in this scenario? Or is it to underpowered? I saw a view builds with larger pools (7x10TB etc) and they mentioned that they barely maxed out the Gigabit LAN Port, but as far as i understand, the smaller the pool the less cpu intensive am I right? I may be planning on getting on the 2.5 GBit in the future.

 

Thanks for any advice.

[19_blackie_73]

14 minutes ago, Hope Noble said:

The CPU should be fine for now. 
If you only run the NAS and nothing in the background. 
I would recommend going for a Quadcore (I5) or at least a I3 for the HT. 
That is also what is recommended. 

I'm the only user, will only access it with on pc at a time, so that should be no problem. Thanks

[Remarkable_Day]

My truenas is still running on a Phenom ii x4 955, and although it has four cores, looks to bench very similarly to the Pentium mentioned above. Although I only have gigabit, I have a similar four drive raidz1 array with Ironwolf drives, as well as a second three drive array. The limiting factor is certainly the disks with large queue depths - CPU usage rarely ventures above 50% while disk busy reports will pin at 100%.

[19_blackie_73]

53 minutes ago, Remarkable_Day said:

My truenas is still running on a Phenom ii x4 955, and although it has four cores, looks to bench very similarly to the Pentium mentioned above. Although I only have gigabit, I have a similar four drive raidz1 array with Ironwolf drives, as well as a second three drive array. The limiting factor is certainly the disks with large queue depths - CPU usage rarely ventures above 50% while disk busy reports will pin at 100%.

thanks for the info