First NAS Build Advice

TrueNAS General
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Hi all,

I’m new the NAS/Homelab world and am looking to build my first NAS/Homelab. I want to primarily have a few self hosted apps along side TrueNAS such as Jellyfin, Immich. Here are the hardware components I’m planning on using. Any advice or thoughts on the build would be greatly appreciated.

  • Motherboard: ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor
  • CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9a-AM4
  • Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16
  • SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME
  • HDD: 5x Seagate IronWolf NAS 8 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM
  • Power Supply: Corsair SF600 (2018) 600 W 80+ Platinum
  • Case: Jonsbo N4 MicroATX

Thank you!

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Assuming that the 990Pro is your single drive app pool, you’ve forgotten the boot drive (small, cheap, cannot be used for storage).

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Welcome to TrueNAS and the forums!

This is a bit over-kill for a boot device. Generally 16GB to 64GB is fine. Of course if you have it already, and no other use, then sure, you can use a 1TB NVMe for a boot device.

In case you don’t know, TrueNAS uses a dedicated boot device. That means you can’t share the boot device with other functions, like Apps. (There are manual, unsupported ways of sharing a boot device. But, that can lead to problems unless you know how to support such.)

In general, you don’t want to over-clock anything. Not memory or CPU. Servers tend to work better with more common settings. Not saying that memory is for over-clocking. Just that things with aggressive names like “Vengeance” make me think otherwise.

As for the rest, don’t see any problems per se. However, I don’t run the Apps you list.

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Hi @etorix thank you for getting back to me. My thoughts were to run all the apps including TrueNAS in virtual environments using Proxmox. Essentially would use the SSD for these virtual environments one of them being TrueNAS. I assume something like that could work?

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Hi @Arwen thank you for getting back to me. My thoughts were to run all the self hosted apps including TrueNAS in virtual environments using Proxmox. Essentially would use the SSD for these virtual environments one of them being TrueNAS. I assume something like that could work as long as I partition the SSD correctly?

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I did a bit more research and it seems like rather than using Proxmox I could just run everything through TrueNAS and then all the apps/VMs would be stored on the HDDs. Thanks for the suggestions @etorix and @Arwen I’ll probably just get a smaller SSD in this case, appreciate the feedback

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Then I suppose you could host your VMs, including TrueNAS, on the Proxmox boot drive… but your ought to say LOUD AND CLEAR than you consider a virtualised installation.

Then get a small boot drive, and ideally a second 1 TB SSD, and put your apps and VMS on a mirror SSD pool.
VMs favour mirrors over raidz, and SSDs over HDDs. (Small transactions, high IOPS.)

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Thanks @etorix yeah I think will definitely get a smaller boot drive for the True NAS and then a secondary SSD for the Apps and VMS. Really appreciate the help :slight_smile:

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