NAS hardware for HexOS question

[zczachor]

So, I'm thinking about this build for the HexOS NAS. Is there anything missing or wrong? Is the integrated GPU ok or do I need to have a dedicated one? 

Thanks! 

Cheers 

 

Case: JONSBO N4 Black NAS PC Case

Mobo: Asus Prime B550-Plus AM4 ATX

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

Cooler: be quiet! Pure Rock LP

RAM: Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3200 MHz CL16 32 GB

GPU: CPU integrated

OS: Kingston A400 240 GB SATA SSD

M.2: 2x Kingston NV3 PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1 Tt M.2 SSD

HDD: 3x Seagate IRONWOLF PRO 16 TB SATAIII

PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 12 M ATX 550 W

[zczachor]

Also also, how would I set it for the easiest extendability and best operation.

[Mobius]

so your motherboard and poswer supply does not fit in your case. the jonsbo n4 supports up to matx cases and sfx power supplies.
also we highly recommend not getting a motherboard with a realtek nic (network interface card) because those just cause problems.
here is the skeleton of your build on pc part picker for reference. https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/pHnZTM

I see that it costs ~630 euros

let me see what i would do with a similar budget.

https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/pzG73w

i went with an intel cpu because they tend to do better if your usecase is say plex. with a fairly strong igpu for most non ai or gaming tasks.

i went with a thermalright cooler since they are usually pretty good. this one has better cooling headroom than the be quiet one you had before. im not thrilled about the rgb personally so if you are able to find it without it i would get that.

The motherboard i picked has an intel nic and ddr5 support. be careful if you decide to purchase the motherboard without using the pcpartpicker provided links as msi has like 5 different motherboards with the same name. Oh also this motherboard should fit in the jonsbo n4 no problem.
1 thing is that this motherboard only has 4 sata ports. the best way to add more is by adding an hba card (flashed to it mode) into the pcie slot.
i would recommend any of the following, lsi 9200-8i, 9305-8i, 9400-8i 

Since the motherboard supports ddr5 ram, i picked the same capacity ddr5 ram for you.

same case

I didn't pick the cheapest power supply that fit. I personally like the seasonic brand of power supplies and this one was fully modular making it just a bit easier to cable manage in that case.

this skeleton also came out to about ~630 euros. (not including storage)

the motherboard only has 1 full sized m.2 and i opted to use it for the boot drive.
and swapped out your ssds to sata ones instead for compatibility purposes.
i know its not ideal but itll likely be imperceptible on the day to day.

i didnt look into hdd pricing because its hard for me to check the pricing in your country outside of pcpartpicker but definitely check out the pricing of seagate exos drives since for some reason they end up being sold at a lower price than the ironwolf drives fairly often.

3 hours ago, zczachor said:

Also also, how would I set it for the easiest extendability and best operation.

i'm not sure what you mean by this but if you can clarify it for me i'm 
happy to answer this and any more questions you may have
as well as help you further modify this list if you desire. 

[zczachor]

42 minutes ago, Mobius said:

so your motherboard and poswer supply does not fit in your case. the jonsbo n4 supports up to matx cases and sfx power supplies.
also we highly recommend not getting a motherboard with a realtek nic (network interface card) because those just cause problems.
here is the skeleton of your build on pc part picker for reference. https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/pHnZTM

I see that it costs ~630 euros

let me see what i would do with a similar budget.

https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/pzG73w

i went with an intel cpu because they tend to do better if your usecase is say plex. with a fairly strong igpu for most non ai or gaming tasks.

i went with a thermalright cooler since they are usually pretty good. this one has better cooling headroom than the be quiet one you had before. im not thrilled about the rgb personally so if you are able to find it without it i would get that.

The motherboard i picked has an intel nic and ddr5 support. be careful if you decide to purchase the motherboard without using the pcpartpicker provided links as msi has like 5 different motherboards with the same name. Oh also this motherboard should fit in the jonsbo n4 no problem.
1 thing is that this motherboard only has 4 sata ports. the best way to add more is by adding an hba card (flashed to it mode) into the pcie slot.
i would recommend any of the following, lsi 9200-8i, 9305-8i, 9400-8i 

Since the motherboard supports ddr5 ram, i picked the same capacity ddr5 ram for you.

same case

I didn't pick the cheapest power supply that fit. I personally like the seasonic brand of power supplies and this one was fully modular making it just a bit easier to cable manage in that case.

this skeleton also came out to about ~630 euros. (not including storage)

the motherboard only has 1 full sized m.2 and i opted to use it for the boot drive.
and swapped out your ssds to sata ones instead for compatibility purposes.
i know its not ideal but itll likely be imperceptible on the day to day.

i didnt look into hdd pricing because its hard for me to check the pricing in your country outside of pcpartpicker but definitely check out the pricing of seagate exos drives since for some reason they end up being sold at a lower price than the ironwolf drives fairly often.

i'm not sure what you mean by this but if you can clarify it for me i'm 
happy to answer this and any more questions you may have
as well as help you further modify this list if you desire. 

Thank you for your answer. 

I've looked at your build and the need of purchasing SATA expansion card (or M.2 expansion card) is something I want to avoid. The reason why I have chosen to go with motherboard with 2xM.2 slots and 6x SATA ports is that I want finally use 4x HDD for storage + 1x SSD for HexOS and those 2x M.2 as a cache. Is there another motherboard that I can use that offers this? Worst case scenario is 2x M.2 and 4x SATA so I use only 3 storage drives instead of four. Motherboard price can be up to 150 euro.

Did check the Seagate Exos price in my place and is around 20 euro more for 16TB than Iron wolf so no difference for me, if it's better in any way I can change it.

As for settings that I want, I meant that I want to set it this way that I can swap drives without the need to rebuild the entire thing. Automate it. For example if I want to change drive because it's damaged or change them into higher capacity, everything with copy and set up itself. With redundancy of course.

P.S. I have found Thermalrigh APX 120 without RGB but in grey color. I'll look for black one.

Cheers.