Is my planned TrueNAS setup good?

[FuchsFuchs1]

I'm tryng to make a NAS with TrueNAS and I'm planning to use 6x8TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives(ST8000VN0022) in them. A part of it would be used mostly for media backup and the rest for general storage. For maximum redundancy I would like to use RAIDZ 2.

 

My Specs for the nas are:
Motherboard: Gigabyte MJ11-EC1

CPU: AMD EPYC 3151
RAM: 32GB DDR4-2666 ECC

Sata/SAS Controller: Adaptec ASR-6805E

Boot Drive: HGST 1TB 2.5"(HTS541010A9E680)

 

Would this be a good NAS configuration for the purpose I would be using it for? I am open to alternative suggestions.

[m9x3mos]

19 minutes ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

I'm tryng to make a NAS with TrueNAS and I'm planning to use 6x8TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives(ST8000VN0022) in them. A part of it would be used mostly for media backup and the rest for general storage. For maximum redundancy I would like to use RAIDZ 2.

 

My Specs for the nas are:
Motherboard: Gigabyte MJ11-EC1

CPU: AMD EPYC 3151
RAM: 32GB DDR4-2666 ECC

Sata/SAS Controller: Adaptec ASR-6805E

Boot Drive: HGST 1TB 2.5"(HTS541010A9E680)

 

Would this be a good NAS configuration for the purpose I would be using it for? I am open to alternative suggestions.

Not sure with that main board but you might need a GPU.

For basic home use an eypc chip os overkill, especially if only have 10gb.

[FuchsFuchs1]

25 minutes ago, m9x3mos said:

Not sure with that main board but you might need a GPU.

For basic home use an eypc chip os overkill, especially if only have 10gb.

The EPYC 3151 is a embeded CPU, compared to other EPYCs its kinda lame with 4 cores and 8 threads. The Gigabyte MJ11-EC1 is pparently a bourd from a mining server and theres barely any info about it online except for youtubers covering it as a cheap server board since it can be found at Ram-König for 59,99€(i got it backthen when it was 69,99). ALso since im going to be also using it over the internet my speeds are mostly limited to 100MB\s and from other forum posts of mine ppl told me to get this motherboard.

[m9x3mos]

1 hour ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

The EPYC 3151 is a embeded CPU, compared to other EPYCs its kinda lame with 4 cores and 8 threads. The Gigabyte MJ11-EC1 is pparently a bourd from a mining server and theres barely any info about it online except for youtubers covering it as a cheap server board since it can be found at Ram-König for 59,99€(i got it backthen when it was 69,99). ALso since im going to be also using it over the internet my speeds are mostly limited to 100MB\s and from other forum posts of mine ppl told me to get this motherboard.

Ah that's interesting. Was not aware of that. Might not be a bad option then if the power consumption isn't bad. 

I was originally going to use a 2950x threadripper for the ram and pci allocation since I also run vms for work. 

But with the idle power consumption that was not a good idea. I couldn't get it to idle less than 200w.

Switched to a 6700k system that will do around 50w.

Will soon be switching to a 9900k with tweaks idles around the same or less. 

[Blue4130]

3 hours ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

I'm tryng to make a NAS with TrueNAS and I'm planning to use 6x8TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives(ST8000VN0022) in them. A part of it would be used mostly for media backup and the rest for general storage. For maximum redundancy I would like to use RAIDZ 2.

 

My Specs for the nas are:
Motherboard: Gigabyte MJ11-EC1

CPU: AMD EPYC 3151
RAM: 32GB DDR4-2666 ECC

Sata/SAS Controller: Adaptec ASR-6805E

Boot Drive: HGST 1TB 2.5"(HTS541010A9E680)

 

Would this be a good NAS configuration for the purpose I would be using it for? I am open to alternative suggestions.

How many people will be using it? Does it need to do media decoding (for plex or whatnot?)

[FuchsFuchs1]

15 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

How many people will be using it? Does it need to do media decoding (for plex or whatnot?)

5 maximum. It also doesn't need to do decoding since its just media on a file system. No Plex/Jellyfin (I also tried installing jellyfin on a demi system and it's pretty broken...)

[LIGISTX]

13 hours ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

I'm tryng to make a NAS with TrueNAS and I'm planning to use 6x8TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives(ST8000VN0022) in them. A part of it would be used mostly for media backup and the rest for general storage. For maximum redundancy I would like to use RAIDZ 2.

 

My Specs for the nas are:
Motherboard: Gigabyte MJ11-EC1

CPU: AMD EPYC 3151
RAM: 32GB DDR4-2666 ECC

Sata/SAS Controller: Adaptec ASR-6805E

Boot Drive: HGST 1TB 2.5"(HTS541010A9E680)

 

Would this be a good NAS configuration for the purpose I would be using it for? I am open to alternative suggestions.

A 32GB boot drive is plenty for truenas….

 

I suppose if you want to run containers or VM’s off the boot drive (can you do that in truenas? I still run CORE so I’m not sure) then maybe that would be useful. 

[Blue4130]

10 hours ago, FuchsFuchs1 said:

5 maximum. It also doesn't need to do decoding since its just media on a file system. No Plex/Jellyfin (I also tried installing jellyfin on a demi system and it's pretty broken...)

It should be fine for that. But if it was me, I'd really NOT use a harddrive for the boot drive. You have a perfectly fine m.2 slot not being used...

 

Also, using the HBA card is going to be interesting since the only PCIE is in the form of slim sas or oculink if I am not mistaken. Adapter time...

[FuchsFuchs1]

49 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

It should be fine for that. But if it was me, I'd really NOT use a harddrive for the boot drive. You have a perfectly fine m.2 slot not being used...

 

Also, using the HBA card is going to be interesting since the only PCIE is in the form of slim sas or oculink if I am not mistaken. Adapter time...

i will adapt the m.2 to a 4x pcie, since adapting slimsas to pcie is expensive and kinda confusing...

[FuchsFuchs1]

1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

A 32GB boot drive is plenty for truenas….

 

I suppose if you want to run containers or VM’s off the boot drive (can you do that in truenas? I still run CORE so I’m not sure) then maybe that would be useful. 

i just used it because i had it...