How many of you guys have multiple NAS in your home lab?
I know I’ve asked about this before, but is it wise to have one NAS with ECC RAM for important data and another NAS for less important data like media?
The UGREEN NAS really has my interest as it’s a cost-effective way to build a NAS and store movies and music. Since it has an HDMI output, I can connect it to a TV and play movies. Is this a good idea? Too bad it doesn’t support ECC RAM and IPMI.
The other build will be for very critical data like photos, videos, and documents. I guess I won’t need the latest and greatest CPU and RAM. I will use ECC RAM for this purpose. I do have an existing AMD 5600G, which has ECC support according to AMD. I can still buy a brand new ASRock Rack X570D4U-2L2T mobo. The 5600G is a 65W APU and it has an integrated GPU. Granted, it’s no longer advanced, but since this is for storing critically important data and allows me to buy cheaper DDR4 ECC RAM, I’m thinking it’s a good idea. What do you guys think? I can max it out with 128GB of RAM for a relatively low price, at least when compared with DDR5 ECC. I don’t get the sense that people prefer AMD CPUs here so I’m wondering if it’s better if I go with Intel instead and just sell my 5600G?
One last thing and that is a chassis. What should I go with? Ideally, I would get a chassis that will fit into a rack along with my Ubiquiti 1U and 2U devices. I don’t intend to get any discrete GPU, but not against the idea either. The new Intel B50 is very interesting, and I’m not against getting it if it makes sense.
APU: No Pro = No ECC. Make that a Ryzen Pro 5650G or 5655G.
The CPU is the less important part of NAS, really. But historically, ECC (and IPMI) have been strong reasons to go with Intel: No official ECC support with Ryzen, and not many server-grade boards with IPMI.
Back to the first question, having two NAS, the primary replicating to the secondary is the first step into a backup strategy. Then come “off-site” and “off-line”.
What is the rationale to have two NAS with two different sets of data and different compliance with “best practices”, rather than consolidating everything into one box? What is the point of having a GPU in the “most important” ECC-enabled NAS… if videos are played from another NAS, elected because it has an HDMI output?
I could understand, for instance, having a primary NAS for the most important data with an all-SSD pool to be silent and stashing big bulky HDD storage elsewhere, away from ears. But here it seems that capacity requirements would be on the UGREEN NAS that is in the living room next to the TV and that noise is not a concern for the primary (1U/2U rack).
I really don’t understand the reasons for attach directly a Nas to a device like a Das
Run a server into the Nas (like Jellyfin) and enjoy your movies from every device.
I have also 2 system, main+backup, i have made specific choice to build the second one, tryng cut expense where possibile, but assuring that
all spare parts of the secondary system can fit to the main one and viceversa, so in case of need i have spare parts for troubleshooting
i placed this PC in my garage, so i can easy connect both via powerline and they are not in the same location
the secondary system Is used both as truenas (to perform replication) and as a normal PC: i use It as “truenas” just every 7-10 days, just for the replica time, instead i use It as normal PC every time i do something (listen music, 3d printing, surfing web, read docs and other during reparation…) so the investment to build It Is way more acceptable
both have ecc but the secondary has way less RAM amount, just the minimum 8gb for the basic usage i need
i choice 2 pool, 1 no redundancy for no-important data backup, mirror for important data
I’m glad that I asked you guys. Thanks for your time.
If I go with Intel, I can buy the i5-12600K and W680 Mobo new for a pretty good price. It’s the RAM that’s the killer. One small issue with the 12600K is the power consumption. Is the W680 capable of undercoating? Is the iGPU sufficiently capable of transcoding all the latest formats including AV1?
I’m also looking at the new Arrow Lake platform. Is the Core 5 235 the cheapest Arrow Lake CPU that supports ECC? It’ll be paired with a W880 Mobo if I go down this road.
Any idea of which rack-mountable chassis I should look at?
You need to specify your current rack dimensions. You mentioned Ubiquiti 1U and 2U devices so I don’t know if you are on a ‘telecom’ rack or a full server depth. Full server would be about 29 inches or more
