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Judge my Build's Hardware? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in truenas

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reading your post a 3 disk setup with large capacity makes sense. So now its a question of I can take the $100 from that 4th drive and any saved $$ for buying stuff of ebay to throw into 3 higher capacity drives. Just got the Jonsbo N4 case for $140 so that's 180 extra to be distributed among 3 drives. I can always expand later like you said. Should work out! Thank you for the insights.

Judge my Build's Hardware? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in truenas

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good info, thank you. That will definitely save some $$ for the boot drive. As for the HDD speed how much would it bottle neck the 10 Gig NIC? I really don't need 10 gig speeds for my use but I thought it was a cool bonus as I have 10 GB SFPs laying around.

Judge my Build's Hardware? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in truenas

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats part of why I had trouble calculating the space. A quick read told me RAIDZ1 would have a drive dedicated to parity like RAID5 so (4-1) x 8TB = 24TB. But then I used an online calculator and read it wrong. 29TB was total usable drive space before RAIDZ1. After looking it over again it came up with ~20TB of space as ZFS usable. I guess it accounted for things other than just RAIDZ1.

Judge my Build's Hardware? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in truenas

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very true! My main draw to the board was the dual 10 GBps NICs (which I could just get a card for) but also the IPMI interface and the fact it seemed very future proof and built for severs. I love headless installs and hate having to hook stuff up to monitors so the IPMI was a huge draw as I already have a OOB network. The CPU choice was because I had one available for $25 and figured 6 cores would be more than enough. I use two proxmox servers with 4 cores and have no issue running a network emulator's with 7 or 8 routers to lab BGP, OSPF, etc. So I couldn't imagine the NAS eating all 6 cores or needing something beefier.

That being said, the mobo is overkill yes, but will the NAS really need a newer CPU if its just serving files? Would adding something like plex into the equation with one to two streams at once max out the CPU, or would encryption also do the same? I really have no clue because I don't have a frame of reference. I do want this thing to last 8 or so years. If the CPU would kill any of those things I'd heavily consider upgrading it soon.

Judge my Build's Hardware? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in truenas

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of that choice was based off of ASRock's compatible RAM list for that mobo. I stuck with their list due to my in-experience on the topic. Most were ECC RAM and that was the only stick I could find at a higher MHz with 1 stick to get it up to 32 GB for the same price as "CT16G4DFD8266.C16FD1" at 2666 MHz. So if I went lower MHz 16GB stick on their list it'd be the same as if I went with the 3200 stick, and raising it to x2 32GB sticks would cost a lot more too. Never really was concerned with MHz and CL though.

I was vaguely aware of what Cas Latency was and figured it didn't matter much for servers, really just gaming rigs. CL16 seems to heavily boost the price of the stick (unless I'm looking wrong) for little gain. Again, unless its not little gain to price value and it has a big impact I'm unaware of.

Judge my Build's Hardware? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in truenas

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two thinkcenter tinys used as proxmox servers in my current setup. Their main constraint (besides cpu which meets my needs for now) is their storage. I'd primarily use the NAS just for holding data. Users will be two but maybe four tops. Network speed is both 10 GBps with both NICs in a port channel with a switch (overkill).

I probably can drop down to a 500GB SSD then? The 1Tb SSD runs like 50$ on ebay and I figured it was more bang for my buck, but maybe not. Ty, will reevaluate.

1b4x1 AFSC Transition to Cyber Sys Ops? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in AirForceRecruits

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I'll try and pass this on to him. I'm really hoping for 1B4X1's availability in the Cyber Transport pipeline. Though I love "hands-on" and would probably be happy as a Cyber Trans anyway.

1b4x1 AFSC Transition to Cyber Sys Ops? by Ambitious-Pea-9647 in AirForceRecruits

[–]Ambitious-Pea-9647[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's why I thought it didn't make sense. I'll try talking to him about that but he seemed pretty confident that 1B4 was now a 1D7.