11-07-2024, 05:25 PM
Dear NASCompares users,
I'm starting this thread because I wasn't able to clarify my mind. I'm starting to think about my future upgrade for a DIY NAS.
Nowadays, I'm running on a HP ProLiant Microserver Gen10, with an old AMD Opteron X3216. The OS installed is Debian, with an apache server and a nextcloud isntance running on it.
Storage is composed of 2 ZFS pools, the first one for work, and the second one as back up with a rsync every month.
My system is probably not the most sophisticated ever, but it works fine in general. Nextcloud is probably the most important thing I need.
Indeed, as a photographer, Nextcloud is a way to archive and backup my pictures and administrative papers. It's also a way to exchange with my clients and deliver them.
In another way, I'm using it as a media server (with JRiver if you ask).
In terms of management for the backup, I wrote on my actual NAS a script which is mounting a backup pool (another disk) once a month during the night, rsyncing the data from my main pool, and detach the backup pool when it's over. In this way, I guess, I'm preventing some attacks ? not sure... On another hand, nextcloud is syncing with a last backup computer, in another place. Backup done.
Let's talk about my needs and my wishes, and for my new system I determined some requirements :
• Jonsbo N4 case (let's start from the end lol. I definitely love it !! Except his HDD trays ....).
• ECC RAM (16Gb, I guess not less, not more)
• 3x HDD disks of 6-8Tb (not definitively sure), it will be a RAIDZ1 pool (WORK-POOL)
• 1X small SSD used as a cache for the work pool
• 1x HDD disk of 8-10Tb, it will be a backup pool.
• 1x SSD (probably M2 on the MOBO) for the OS
• Low-Power and energy efficient MOBO+CPU
• Debian OS, I guess (mostly because I know it). I didn't consider TrueNAS + Nextcloud yet
My difficulties concerns CPU+MOBO choice. Of course, I looked at the article "The Best CPU+Motherboard Combo for Your NAS Build – 2024 Edition" on this main site, but I didn't found my hapiness. It was my first slap : a lot of DIY'ers are using some no-name motherboards sold on Alieexpress. At first, I was really doubting about them, but after hours of readings forums, it looks to be a not so bad option. Indeed, these no-name cards seem to meet requirements about SATA ports, and nvme sockets, while 1st class brands need to use some PCI or nvme adapter for SATA ports. Well, I'm still not convinced by them.. Can I ask some more feedback's about these cards ?
During my searches, it appears that :
• SuperMicro cards are f*cking expensive and hard to find
• Topton cards are not compatible with ECC
• Fujitsu boards seem to be a good compromise, but maybe hard to find in Europe
• Regular brands like ASRock, ASUS, and so one could be easy to find and setup, but the low-power goal will be hard to reach.
In the end, I'm talking about everything except CPU..... Because I don't know how to choose The One !
My main goal, nextcloud, doesn't ask particular requirements.
It's not a high-end gaming PC, we're talking about a 24/24 NAS. Low power consumption is a goal, but I'm afraid to be limited by something like a Pentium G5400, Celron's or Atom's categories. Am I wrong ? I'm not either talking about AMD CPU, because I don't know them, and Ryzen's CPU (recommended by the previous article) with 8+ cores seems to be overkill.
To conclude, it's hard to choose a direction, probably because I'm not able to fix a CPU, and balance between performance and efficiency. I'm not really bottlenecked by my CPU except under heavy loads, also I would like to ask to this nice community some advice
I'm starting this thread because I wasn't able to clarify my mind. I'm starting to think about my future upgrade for a DIY NAS.
Nowadays, I'm running on a HP ProLiant Microserver Gen10, with an old AMD Opteron X3216. The OS installed is Debian, with an apache server and a nextcloud isntance running on it.
Storage is composed of 2 ZFS pools, the first one for work, and the second one as back up with a rsync every month.
My system is probably not the most sophisticated ever, but it works fine in general. Nextcloud is probably the most important thing I need.
Indeed, as a photographer, Nextcloud is a way to archive and backup my pictures and administrative papers. It's also a way to exchange with my clients and deliver them.
In another way, I'm using it as a media server (with JRiver if you ask).
In terms of management for the backup, I wrote on my actual NAS a script which is mounting a backup pool (another disk) once a month during the night, rsyncing the data from my main pool, and detach the backup pool when it's over. In this way, I guess, I'm preventing some attacks ? not sure... On another hand, nextcloud is syncing with a last backup computer, in another place. Backup done.
Let's talk about my needs and my wishes, and for my new system I determined some requirements :
• Jonsbo N4 case (let's start from the end lol. I definitely love it !! Except his HDD trays ....).
• ECC RAM (16Gb, I guess not less, not more)
• 3x HDD disks of 6-8Tb (not definitively sure), it will be a RAIDZ1 pool (WORK-POOL)
• 1X small SSD used as a cache for the work pool
• 1x HDD disk of 8-10Tb, it will be a backup pool.
• 1x SSD (probably M2 on the MOBO) for the OS
• Low-Power and energy efficient MOBO+CPU
• Debian OS, I guess (mostly because I know it). I didn't consider TrueNAS + Nextcloud yet
My difficulties concerns CPU+MOBO choice. Of course, I looked at the article "The Best CPU+Motherboard Combo for Your NAS Build – 2024 Edition" on this main site, but I didn't found my hapiness. It was my first slap : a lot of DIY'ers are using some no-name motherboards sold on Alieexpress. At first, I was really doubting about them, but after hours of readings forums, it looks to be a not so bad option. Indeed, these no-name cards seem to meet requirements about SATA ports, and nvme sockets, while 1st class brands need to use some PCI or nvme adapter for SATA ports. Well, I'm still not convinced by them.. Can I ask some more feedback's about these cards ?
During my searches, it appears that :
• SuperMicro cards are f*cking expensive and hard to find
• Topton cards are not compatible with ECC
• Fujitsu boards seem to be a good compromise, but maybe hard to find in Europe
• Regular brands like ASRock, ASUS, and so one could be easy to find and setup, but the low-power goal will be hard to reach.
In the end, I'm talking about everything except CPU..... Because I don't know how to choose The One !
My main goal, nextcloud, doesn't ask particular requirements.
It's not a high-end gaming PC, we're talking about a 24/24 NAS. Low power consumption is a goal, but I'm afraid to be limited by something like a Pentium G5400, Celron's or Atom's categories. Am I wrong ? I'm not either talking about AMD CPU, because I don't know them, and Ryzen's CPU (recommended by the previous article) with 8+ cores seems to be overkill.
To conclude, it's hard to choose a direction, probably because I'm not able to fix a CPU, and balance between performance and efficiency. I'm not really bottlenecked by my CPU except under heavy loads, also I would like to ask to this nice community some advice
