Hi All,
Been looking for home server parts for a new TrueNAS Scale build, looked for ECC unbuffered ram for my AMD CPU and found this to be a great price, RRP in Australia from scorptec or Mwave when in stock is $369.
Happy buying?
Update1: Price increase from $316.79 to $322.59. Still better than local pricing.
CamelCamelCamel.
Purchased the chassis already and the mobo, just need the HBA card.
using 128gb of this RAM and a 3900X. the silverstone doesnt have space for a AIO, so either stock wraith PRISM or a Noctua UHD12L (less than 148cm due to 4RU height restriction in the silverstone). I have 8 x 16TB Exos in a synology 8 bay atm, which will be moved over to the new server for zfsz2.
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/cases/server-&-rackmount…
https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/lsi-9305-24i-sas/p/N82E1…
https://www.pbtech.com/au/product/MBDASU25721/ASUS-PROART-X5…
That looks noisy!
I wish we could see some HP micro server action again, only four drives but such a well made unit for NAS. ECC, fairly quiet, ILO… so much bang for buck (well back then…)
I love my Gen 8, currently using it with Windows Server 2016 for media serving as well as running FTP, Minecraft and GTA5 servers for our household! Great piece of equipment.
kek, i still got an old HP N54L collecting dust in my hallway cupboard, but i'm trying to move away from unraid as i'm finding it a bit unstable and considering SCALE was released into beta early last year after i went into unraid, i think now since it was was recently released into stable release now is the time. Also higher end synologies are now locked out from non-whitelisted HDD's so synology is dead to me…DSM is such a nice easy to use system too, such a shame.
also i need more power and expansion abilities for running vm's etc, testing new dockers.
LSI 9211-8i SAS controller can be had on eBay with SATA breakout cables around 100
the silverstone chassis i bought has 20 bay hotswap, the LSI 9211-8i only has 8 lanes, i need the 24i to support the entire back-pane ^^;
Wow ok this is a beast! I've only got need for about 4x16TB, nice one!
Nice hardware, I am planning a similar truenas build. I was considering an x570 Aorus Elite mobo, is there anything major that made you choose the Proart? I know it has 10GbE LAN where the Elite is only 2.5GbE, but I could upgrade if needed with a pcie card.
There is that argument, but also just paying extra for the pci-slot space. so depends on what you are running inside. some people try to run ryzen builds headless or with an APU, but some APU's dont support ECC. i wanted to free up a slot for possible nvme pci cards or something else in the future, was going to run a 3050 or s cheap nvenc card for encoding/decoding streams or files. and of course a pci-e for the HBA. shame the bottom pci is only x16 @x4. having the 10g integrated was just helpful.
@Aarent: Thanks mate that's really helpful. I had planned to run headless but still finding additional use cases for the build with VMs/dockers
Just to share what I did.
I bought used server ram from eBay for about AUD $120 per 32GB module.
Example: Samsung 32GB PC4-17000 DDR4-2133MHz ECC Reg M393A4K40BB0-CPB CL15 288-Pin
For my use cases, overall performance benefits more from larger memory capacity than that from higher memory speed.
Thus, I went for larger DDR4-2133 memory modules instead.
I normally run full memory and hard drives test once or twice a year. Everything has been running fine for the past 3 years.
Happy shopping!
Good idea but that memory isn't going to work with OPs (or any home consumer level) motherboard.
Would like to hear what else you're getting, thinking of building up something for truenas scale as well.