Nas Rebuild/Upgrade + Media Server Planning

[felix920506]

I'm planning an rebuild/upgrade to my NAS and also building a media server using Jellyfin.

Current NAS I have:

• AMD Ryzen 3 3100
• ASUS B450M-A
• Kingston DDR4-2400 8GB ECC
• FSP HEXA 85+ 350w power supply
• WD Green 120GB SSD (Boot Drive)
• 3x 6TB NAS drive (2xHGST, 1xToshiba)
• Unraid Basic

What I plan to do:

• Put New Drives and convert to TrueNAS Scale
• Replace Case with Silverstone CS351
• Put Old Drives in a spare system as offsite backup
• Build another system for jellyfin to live on

Questions for NAS:

• What drive config would be better for reliability? 2x16TB Mirrored or 3x8TB Raid Z1?
• Would it make sense to have 2 SSDs (Maybe Crucial MX500) mirrored as a cache for 1GbE Network?
• How does not having ECC effect ZFS?

Plans for Media Server:

• Intel Core i5-9400F
• Intel Arc A380 GPU (For AV1 Hardware Encoding)
• Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS + Jellyfin
• Mount directory from NAS over SMB or NFS for media library
• Remote access through port forwarding and nginx reverse proxy

Questions for media server:

• How does not having PCIe ReBar affect Arc in terms of media encoding and decoding?
• Are there any more severe general issues with Arc on Linux?

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 hours ago, felix920506 said:

• Intel Core i5-9400F
• Intel Arc A380 GPU (For AV1 Hardware Encoding)

Why not get the non f version. pretty good encoders on bord(no av1, but id argue it doesn't matter as a bit extra bandwidth on a local network doesn't matter)

 

4 hours ago, felix920506 said:

• What drive config would be better for reliability? 2x16TB Mirrored or 3x8TB Raid Z1?
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2x16 would probably be slightly better, but both are pretty darn reliable. Make sure you have backups though, as there is ways the whole array could be lost.

 

4 hours ago, felix920506 said:

• Would it make sense to have 2 SSDs (Maybe Crucial MX500) mirrored as a cache for 1GbE Network?
•  

Nope, HDDs will fill 1gbe here, and ZFS caching doesn't really help with home server needs)

 

4 hours ago, felix920506 said:

• How does not having ECC effect ZFS?

 

The same as any other filesystem. ZFS isn't special when it comes to ECC.  Id argue ECC isn't needed for a home media server.

[felix920506]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why not get the non f version. pretty good encoders on bord(no av1, but id argue it doesn't matter as a bit extra bandwidth on a local network doesn't matter)

Have a few lying around, trying to repurpose hardware that is otherwise useless