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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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Hi everyone, I'm building my first nas for my personal use (plex, photos etc). I don't have much experience with storage configurations, so any feedback is appreciated: Server: HPE Proliant DL380 gen9 CPU: 2x E5-2620 v3 RAM: Some DDR4, not sure how much Storage: - boot: 2x ssd (probabily 500gb crucial bx500 in raid 1) - first pool: 4x Seagate 4TB 2.5 SATA with zfs Upgradeadability: - 2x 2.5 free slot - optional rear cage for 3x 3.5 hdd A few question: - is the raid 1 volume to paranoid for boot partition? - any suggestion for better harddridves? the 4tb seagate is the better option i found for density and price (€ 0.0272 per gb) - I also want to reduce the power consumption to the minimum Might consider to switch cpus to E5 2630L v4 or E52650L v4. Or even running only one cpu. Any other meaningful configuration i can do in bios to reduce power? Thanks for the help! 😄
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I read the FAQ, so i understand the minimum requirements (x86 hardware (Intel or AMD). minimum 2-core 64-bit CPU, 8GB of memory, and a 16GB or larger SSD boot device). But what about other features, specs for a positive experience? Ill be doing regular storage stuff. A plex server. And if HexOS can support it, ill be running a DNS, DHCP, home automation, and VPN. (Ive never ran TrueNAS, or any storage servers. So it kind of conflicts in my head that a "storage" solution would offer VM services for DNS, DHCP, etc. But it can run Plex. so im confused right now. but thats not the big question). Im looking at a 9th gen 9400F with a GTX 1660. My biggest questions are: 1. Do i need/want a CPU that supports virtualization? 2. Do i need/want a CPU that supports hyper threading? 3. Any things to look for for encoding for the Plex server?
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So I’m new to this whole NAS thing. I saw the LTT video and bought the lifetime license figuring it was a good project to support and try to figure out. I’ve wanted to build one for a long time but have been intimidated by the setup process. I’ve only ever used Windows, so anything else seems hard for me. I’ve also never built a PC, but I know I can, I’m a pretty handy person. I’ve got a 2015 Dell with a 4th Gen i3 processor that I’ve been hanging on to for just this purpose. My plan is to buy 2-4 HDDs to hook up to this system. The motherboard has 2 “HDD SATA” plugs on the bottom right, and there are 2 power connectors coming from the power supply. So I’m confident in my ability to hook up 2 hard drives and slot them in to the provided bays. I have 2 questions though: 1) If I have brand new, blank hard drives, no OS installed on them, will I download HexOS on to a USB drive and boot in to that from BIOS? Will the BIOS screen just pop up when i power on the machine (if everything is connected and working properly?) 2) I’ve seen pcie expansion cards that add sata drive capability. There were 2 other power connectors coming from the power supply that went to optical drives. The connectors look identical to the ones that went to the HDD. Could i get an expansion card and use the 2 power connectors and get 2 more drives for this machine? If so, are there any specifications I should look for with these expansion cards? Thanks in advance for helping this NAS-curious newbie.
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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
