Comment on Building my first NAS: Assistance on part selection please
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agoIs noise the most important prio? Would you spend money for this goal?
Not the most important, but it is an important factor. If I am not losing much otherwise, I’d like to keep it not louder than say, an idling fridge. I would spend some more for quieter drives and fans, since those are the biggest noise concerns.
How about power usage?
Absolutely important, power prices here are some of the highest globally.
How about price limitations?
I’d very much like to stay below 2000€, preferably below 1750€. Currently it’s coming out at around 1600€.
When looking at harddisks, there is that performance issue called “CMR or SMR” (google it). Your ST8000NT001 seem fine performance-wise as the use CMR.
Yup, took that into account, but nonetheless thanks for mentioning it!
If you need really quiet ones, then maybe you want “desktop” harddisks. But many of them use SMR which limits their performance.
Doesn’t need to be super quiet, just not disruptive, I’m planning on having the NAS in the hallway.
Most guides recommend Raidz2 currently. Do you use backups?
Raidz2 means there are two entire “unused” drives which would be quite painful for my budget. I am planning on renting around 1TB of rsync storage and throwing things like Immich’s data on there. This is fine to me since I’d prefer one backup off-site anyways. Any of my jellyfin stuff can always be redownloaded as long as I keep a list of what I got somewhere else.
When buying SSDs, check for the “TBW” spec.
Noted
I would target spending less so that you have money to upgrade and fix mistakes. Spend half your budget now and then in a few weeks or months upgrade or change what you don’t like. It is better to screw up cheaper.
If you don’t have a ton of data you could also go all flash. You can get low performance (but reliable) sata SSDs for not to much money. If you only have a few TB of data. I have a few of these and while they don’t set any speed records they have been solid and power friendly.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 days ago
So I have looked up your board and CPU specs.
The board is probably Ok. Regarding the CPU, I found some alternatives:
5750GE with better specs in everything, especially 8 cores 16 threads, lower TDP of 35W and just a little higher price, or
5700G also at higher specs, equal TDP of 65W and half the price.
My own personal choice is something different and harder to find (only on aliexpress so far): itx board with a preinstalled 5825U at 8 cores and TDP of 15W.
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Very helpful, thank you! The CPU choice has had to be remade anyways as I have mentioned in other places in this thread.
Looking at the 5750GE it seems to be OEM-only, so I’m not sure where to reputably get my hands on that.
The 5700G looks very intriguing, it’s only barely more expensive compared to the last price of the 4650G I saw. If I find nothing else, I’ll probably go with that one then.
I am still concerned about wattage though, I struggled to find any regular CPUs with a notably lower TDP than 65W - although I’d honestly be most intrigued by what it draws at idle-ish, because if it’s like a <5W difference there I wouldn’t bother… but of course idle changes depending on the system so not like that can be properly listed anywhere.
Do you potentially also have any Intel suggestions? Other people here mentioned an AMD iGPU might cause problems with Jellyfin.