Hardware Problems - Confirmations and Recomendations

[imNotOriginal]

Hello fellow HEXians (or whatever name works lol),

I bought a 4U machine off of FB market place that I am converting into my NAS, it had some parts that I am trying to repurpose. Turns out the SSD bay that I got with this is an ICYDock, which was pretty cool.

I included the spec list off of the FB post for those curious.

I switched to a I7-10700k with 16GB of RAM - this will be upgraded later.

 

Now on to the issues:

1. My network card on my mb is a RealTek 2.5GBE, to my understanding and research this is not compatible with TrueNAS as a whole. I ordered an Intel 82575/82576 to replace it, this should be fine?

2. The system I bought had two LSI drive controllers, one for SSDs and one for HDD - after tinkering and finding out that the HDD cages were VERY loud i decided to remove those for now. but it looks like the SAS 9361-8i I have, for the SSDs, are not compatible due to it being a MegaRAID controller (I think - after researching). Can replacements be recommended for this please and thank you.

 

 

[Mobius]

At least for the NIC you picked it should be fine but since it sounds like you'll be having a ssd pool you should consider a 5 or 10gb nic

[PsychoWards]

Can you give os more details on your SFP Network cards? You might be able to reuse them and just get an SFP Module

[imNotOriginal]

47 minutes ago, Mobius said:

At least for the NIC you picked it should be fine but since it sounds like you'll be having a ssd pool you should consider a 5 or 10gb nic

The SSD pool is going to be small for now and mainly used for testing and playing around with it while I order HDD and upgrade - but its not a bad plan lol

[imNotOriginal]

48 minutes ago, PsychoWards said:

Can you give os more details on your SFP Network cards? You might be able to reuse them and just get an SFP Module

I will need to wait until I get home to get the specs on the SFP cards, but these are the only SFP related devices I have so I would need to upgrade networking to go along with that - I do plan on doing this in the futuretho

[PsychoWards]

There are SFP modules with an RJ45 connector with up to 10Gbit/s, you don't need to go to fibre yet.

If you can't or don't want to use the SFP card, it might be worth to consider getting a 2.5 Gbit/s card instead of a 1Gb card, they are not that much more expensive and it avoids you the need to upgrade the NIC afterwards, especially since 2.5Gbit/s switches are no longer expensive.

[imNotOriginal]

3 hours ago, PsychoWards said:

There are SFP modules with an RJ45 connector with up to 10Gbit/s, you don't need to go to fibre yet.

If you can't or don't want to use the SFP card, it might be worth to consider getting a 2.5 Gbit/s card instead of a 1Gb card, they are not that much more expensive and it avoids you the need to upgrade the NIC afterwards, especially since 2.5Gbit/s switches are no longer expensive.

I have two different  ones

1. NC552SFP

2. NC550SFP