Looking for advice: Hardware check for new build

[Farout]

Looking for advice on a 6-bay diy build

Hey everyone, I’m planning to build my first proper TrueNAS SCALE setup and could use some advice from people with more experience. I’ve done quite a bit of reading and have a general plan, but I’d like to sanity-check my choices and hear what you’d recommend. What I’m aiming for: Around 6 × 12 TB or 6 × 18 TB in RAIDZ2, which should give roughly 65 TiB usable. A single vdev layout for simplicity. I will use dataset to organize my different needs Preferably 6 bays, though I could go 8 if it’…

X10SDV-4C-TLN2F available

Just a heads up for everyone looking into building a small, low power NAS. There are a good amount of X10SDV-4C-TLN2F available on ebay right now out of China for around 250 USD. 4C/ 8T Xeon D-1521 10 G Ethernet 6x SATA 1x m.2 DDR4 RDIMM ECC ASPEED BMC/IPMI PCIe 3.0x 16 (4x4x4x4 possible) Just picked one up

Maybe post in one of these 2 threads to get some more answers.