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Hi all, Looking into buying a life-time license but trying to do some math first on total cost of ownership. One often claimed benefit of DIY systems is the ability to run low cost second hand hardware. However, newer hardware tends to be more energy efficient. But is this also the case for idle power? 1W of additional idle power consumption translates to about ~4USD/year where I live. So saving a couple of watts can add up. Is there a specific niche for this sort of thing? Perhaps old office pc's, or mini pc's have especially favourable idle power consumption?
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Hey all. I am looking at purchasing my new NAS to install HexOS on. This will be a Ebay build, roughly $400, with enough storage to start a RaidZ2 and expand the pool later on (minimum of 4 drives). Right now I am looking at a Lenovo P520 with the Intel W-2135, 64gb DDR4 2666mhz ECC, LSI 9300-16i 12gbs, 4x4tb Seagate Enterprise SAS 12gbs, Nvidia 1070, and a SK Hynix 256gb M.2 NVME boot drive. The thought process was get something that is new(er) and can have a high-core CPU upgrade later with the ability to run more ram as Cache later as well. The LSI card was for the ability to through most of this stuff into a true 4U server at some point and run up to 16 drives off of it. The SK Hynix is a good price and has 1gb of Dram cache as well, more than other options at that price. The RAM is Micron/Crucial branded and inexpensive for the size, 16gb 2Rx4 DIMMs. The 1070 is a good plex transcoding card and I will be having 4k HDR content on there in the future so I want the ability to transcode that sooner rather than later. What do you all think? I am ready to press buy on it. I have built many a computer so I am not worried about that. I just want to make sure I am not doing something stupid and forgetting something. Thanks all!
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I bought an old gigabyte NAS box with some hard drives to try out TrueNAS a while ago to see if I would be into it. After hearing about HexOS, I immediately changed the color of my pants with excitement. Long story short, mobo is dead and it's like a 4th gen i5 or something like that. I want a good deal on new hardware unless there is an insane used itx mobo / CPU / ram combo. I picked out a 12600 (cooler included), AsRock b760m-itx for mobo, and 32 GB of ripjaws. As a certified noob, please let me know if I am doing something dumb. I don't need a GPU, right?
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I had some spare parts laying around, and supplemented with some new adds - amd 3700x - Rog Strix b550-wifi f mobo - 16 gb ddr4 3200 ram - 1660 Super (also have spare amd 6600 lying around) - 1x 256 gb nvme (planned for boot) - 1x 1TB nvme (planned for... something?) -5x 4TB HGST NAS HDDs (renewed from Amazon) My initial plan was using the server for media streaming (primarily), along with photo and document storage. Secondarily, I'd like to add other functionality (either light server hosting for video games like Minecraft, with the family, or smart home integration/security cam integration). My first concern is the setup - Do I need to hardwire the build to the router or will wifi 6 connectivity suffice? My second concern is the Hardware - How much RAM do I actually need for my intended purpose(s)? Which of my video cards are better suited for the purpose? Will my CPU suffice? With 4 people in the house, it's unclear how many streams we'd be running simultaneously (I'd guess 2 or 3 at most). Will my hardware suffice for 4k? Are there any other concerns I'm missing with my proposed setup? -
I'm looking to have SSD storage for a centralised game library install to access with my PC, but wanting HDD for cheaper volume on the media side which wouldn't require such high read/write. Is it relatively straightforward to assign SSD's to their own RAID pool and utilise this for game install paths, and then for my media library, restrict these to only the HDDs setup in a separate raid, within the same machine/housing? I am aware of the equalisation of storage costs when comparing HDD to SSD, so it might be more time effective to just go full SSD because the savings aren't as intense. Thanks in advance
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I have an older supermicro server with an Intel xeon e5645, 24gb of DDR3 ECC and 4 sas drives, and a sata ssd as a boot drive. Does anyone know if anything within this setup will cause problems?
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Can HexOS help me setup a bit miner that has some halfway decent enterprise server hardware and GPUs?
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Will there be a list page to either check supported chips or view supported devices as this worries me since I use a development board for a nas that runs armv7 and there is sometimes less support for my devices
