Building My New DIY Storage Server! (2024)

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[TechByMattB]

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[yasheshshah]

If you kept up with TrueNAS development, Scale has overall better or the same performance as core now. Core is also being deprecated soon so any new systems users should always be installing scale and not going with core .

[pailmonkey]

Hey so there is a guy on Reddit who made a 3d printed front fan mount for the hard drives. It has been a game changer in cooling. I was able to fit 2 120mm p12 fans

[Cpgeekorg]

I've been running linux and truenas based servers for a few years now and a few things come to mind after watching this video. - first up, I'm really not a big fan of the case you chose. the fractal design case is a much better choice for holding all those hard drives, and you could have just bought a new motherboard, cpu, and memory and it would have fit just fine in that case, also I think that it's probably got much better airflow and allows for standard atx power supply (way less expensive and usually more efficient), and full size pci cards (which is great if you wanted to later upgrade to using an external SAS JBOD for data expansion a few years down the line, or if you found you wanted to use a gpu for virutalization, ai, or transcoding stuff. and it doesn't really matter how large the system is because you can place it in some out of the way corner (so long as it has decent enough airflow), and you don't have to look at it.. behind furnature, on a shelf in the basement, off in a corner somewhere, and it's fine.

I don't like sata adapters period (most of them have really flaky chipsets that can lead to data errors. if you need more ports than the motherboard will allow, I STRONGLY recommend dropping in a SAS 3 HBA (which you can usually find used for about the same cost as a pcie sata controller but WAY more reliable and gives you more options re: using an external jbod if you choose to do so later). with a sas3 hba you can then use some cheap reverse breakout cables to put 4 sata drives per sas port.

using a non-enterprise disk as a cache drive is a mistake. you will QUICKLY eat through your write endurance on that drive like nobody's business. even a used enterprise sata ssd (for not a lot of money especially if you buy used) will typicallly offer more iops and like 4x the endurance.

as far as caching and data access speeds are concerned, however, zfs REALLY wants to do caching with ram, not really with ssd. I (and most others i've read) recommend maxing out the system's ram before you even think about installing an ssd cache. if you fit that machine with 64 or 128gb of ram, it will be dramatically faster for average data access due to the way that zfs does memory caching. the usual rule of thumb given by many is usually 1gb of ram per tb of storage space (I usually like to go a bit bigger for that estimate with 1.25gb of ram per tb so that you have a little more cache. for an actual nas like this, though, where you're doing raidz or raidz2 with a bunch of disks, it's usually best to just max it out, especially now that DDR4 UDIMMS are SUPER cheap.

finally, while I applaud your wish to learn more about the software side of server hosting with things like plex and steam caching, etc. I would encourage caution right now with the truenas scale platform. they are on the cusp of changing their ENTIRE application hosting stack from using a customized implementation of kubernettes to ripping all that out and switching to a cusomized implementation of docker. it's extremely likely that you're going to have to reinstall all of your applications from scratch and reconfigure them when that happens, and the change is reportedly happening within the next month or two. I have no idea what the new UI for app management is going to look, or what issues there might be porting applications from one system to the other, but it's very likely that some manual reconfiguration of your applications will be needed at the very least. I'm not looking forward to that as I personally run transmission-daemon, plex, restreamer, and chia on my truenas scale setup.

best of luck!

[RoloSolis]

Yes continue this with a secondary video!

[starlightdragon]

you are going to regret giving up ecc ram, ask me how i know.

[BearyCoolDude]

Fantastic video, Matt. I love watching server adjacent videos after expanding my movie and TV show collection immensely. I'm sure I'll have to dive into it sooner than later.

Also, after watching that dramatic reenactment, I really think you should consider going into Hollywood. That was truly elevated.

[Rushil]

I made an actual sound when I saw you inserting the cables into that M.2 card you can literally see it rip a connector off the board entirely - oh my GOD lmfao. finesse over force next time!

[xXNimrodXx]

everyone gangster and cheap out on ECC until the raid pool is gone - its very rare, but I hope for you, that you have that Fractal Define r5 machine available for backups

[febriansasi]

I use old thinkpad with 4GB RAM and 8GB swap, use debian server with portainer, combine multiple hdd with mergerfs, use duplicati to backup important folder.
I am quite satisfied.

[jgdudex]

Would love to see switching over to proxmox with true as virtualized and a vm for self hosted applications like Jellyfin and home assistant, especially with hardware encoding using the iGPU

[MacLimitRange]

Getting a MB with enough Sata ports or an HBA, would be better. CPU is totally overkill.

[DienerNoUta]

5:15 that's unacceptable for a $116 case

[phychmasher]

While there's nothing wrong with Core... I agree, it's probably time to move to Scale.

[CornBreadMan]

It's a shame that those 14TB are cut downs of 16TB HDDs. (more noise & higher power draw)

[kennyadvocat]

Can't beat a fractal design R4. Great case and still using mine for my server since 2014

[PoeLemic]

Also, love your content. Whenever I watch your channel, you encourage me to try new things. Because, yeah, I've got the Bug to mess with Home Automation too and Home Assistant.
--> Yes, start making some content on Home Assitant, because it is very popular and going to be so much more searched in the future.

[phoeniiiix]

Hey Matt, are you ever gonna try doing a PC build with the Fujitsu Siemens Scenic case? I'd love to see that

[arch]

i would keep the old machine working as a backup machine or as plan b nas

the sata ports, iirc there is a itx motherboard with 8 sata 3 ports that has cpu soldered, so it would help to get rid of the adapter to avoid surprises

thank you for the review of that m.2 to sata adapter, it was as bad as i imagined

[Pond]

My case is a Fractal Design Focus G. I love it and it still has two optical drive bays.