Given you want to run 12 Sata drives + 10G, there are MBs that already have these and you can use pcie slots for more I/O. On the MB side, supermicro boards, IMHO, are a clear choice. I know that point 1 above is not applicable to you.but, if anything, maintenance is a huge benefit of running TrueNAS virtualized. Reliability - Even ixsystems have a blog post on virtualizing on ESXI (I tried proxmox ages ago and realized that, though drives were passed-thru, the FreeNAS VM was not getting all smart data.this was with a drive known to show failing smart attributes on baremetal but nothing of that sort on proxmox.ESXI mirrored the results of baremetal). Upgrading firmware on disks, making backups, migrating? Done.ģ. You can share resources over a host (run other VMs) and achieve no performance issues compared to running baremetal (nvme pools excepted).Strangely enough, on TrueNAS Core 12.0 RC I even get better slog writes compared to baremetal (no idea why, still investigating).Ģ. NB used SAS spinners may be cheaper per GiB/TiB than SATA - would obviate your on motherboard SATA ports and require 2 x HBA's, though nothing wrong with mixing SATA and SAS spinners in a pool so long as they are the same size.įor homelab use, I wouldn't consider running baremetal anymore for maybe three main reasons:ġ.
What total capacity and size NVME are you looking for? What total capacity and size spinners are you looking for What total capacity and size SSD's are you looking for? (think growth 18 - 24 months out) for (plex) media, video editing and VM working sets?
Not to send you away but have you read up on the hardware recommendations or looked at the "Will it FreeNAS" thread on the iX community board?Īre you looking for used or new gear recommendations? Are you planning an SSD pool to feed your 10Gb network connection? If so I'd probably look at SAS over SATA and honestly nvme would probably be the better route - at least for the clips you are actively working on. Looking for guidance, pointers - all information is good.Ĭlick to expand.FreeNAS on bare metal then?Īre you concerned about power consumption at all? I don't want to waste money, but cost isn't the most important factor. My reading suggests that booting from an M.2 would be good. I need a PCIe slot for a 10GbE port as I work with 4k video files. I need a PCIe slot or 2 to connect to the 12 SATA hard drives. I'd like the board to do at least 128GB in case I need more. When it does data scrubbing, or rebuilds its array, the machine is absolutely useless. I understand that FreeNAS doesn't need a lot of CPU power, but I don't want to be annoyed with my new build as I am with the Synology. Plex, VM's, anything else that needs the data it holds will be on another server. Now I need things to put in it! I am new to this, never put a computer together before. Rosewill cases are finally available again.
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