Posted February 13, 2023 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 14, 2023 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? 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 14, 2023 Author 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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