I posted last week about building a NAS, and on friday I saw that the Jonsbo N4 case I had been eyeing for a while was in stock at a good price.
So now I am looking for a motherboard to base my system on, which seems to be a bit difficult.
I need an mATX or ITX board that can handle six SATA drives and also have an NVME slot for a boot drive.
Performance, I value power efficiency more than super high performance, and am on the fence between Open Media Vault or TrueNAS, I like the familiarity of Linux, but I do value the features of ZFS.
If I end up on TrueNAS I may run a VM in the hypervisor from time to time, mostly just for testing.
The NAS will not be an HTPC, but will serve media through SMB and possibly NFS later.
Cooling could be a bit of an issue as the case does not have a lot of space for a cooler
Supermicro.
What memory do you need? Storage systems usually like ecc.
I am looking at a minimum of 16 GB, memory is fairly cheap these days.
What about slow boot times of super micro, I have heard that they take a long time to boot through the bios.
Why would boot times matter?
Truenas appears to recommend ecc. That may dictate what board to buy.
Zfs loves memory, vm loves memory.
If you have the funds for it I would get a minimum of 32 GB.
You should so cross post this to !homelab@lemmy.world they will have some good information for you.
one with as many SATA slots as possible
Yeah, so far I am having a bit of trouble finding this, I am located in Sweden and the selection is limited.
can’t you order online and have it ship to you?
i have an ancient server mobo with not-that-much RAM but like 6 SATA. not beefy enough for many VMs and such but enough for a tough ZFS storage. additional SATAs are provided by PCI/SATA cards
If your concern is which motherboard will perform well, you can go with any. NAS applications are incredibly easy to run. Basically no resources required.
Your biggest issue will be narrowing it down based on port requirements. Then just go with whatever is cheapest. I’d still recommend AM4, because AM5 is still expensive af. It does mean you won’t have any upgrade path, but for what you’re doing, you shouldn’t need to upgrade ever.
If you’re planning on transcoding the media you’re serving, then you may want to think about throwing an A310 in there to handle that.
You could conceivable even just get a used desktop second hand and harvest the parts.
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That’s fair, though it is keeping the community alive
Yeah I do miss r/sysadmin
We need some actual sysadmins to post
I am an actual sysadmin, at my last place of work I was the only Linux sysadmin, I still worked mainly in a 365 environment as a Helpdesk technician and a VIP technician.
At my current place of work I am a 365 admin.
I thought that since building a NAS is in the interest of other sysadmins, and when I posted my last thread it was fine that I should continue.
Especially since it seemed pretty dead since I posted the last time.
Some semi-related content seemed better than no content.
But if these questions are better served by another community, I will move there.
And yes, /r/sysadmin is the best forum for getting help in the sysadmin world that I have used.
