I’m new to the world of TrueNAS and I’m about to make the final switch from an old Synology to TrueNAS.
I want to build a mini server dedicated solely to TrueNAS, which, in addition to managing the NAS, will also host several Docker containers. Most of them will be lightweight, but some will require more resources, such as Jellyfin, Immich (with Machine Learning), and Jenkins (which I’ll use only occasionally).
I’m considering purchasing an Intel N100 or N150 CPU. I’ve read several posts about the N100, and it seems to be a good choice for my needs. However, since the N150 was released recently, I’m tempted to go for it, but I haven’t found much information about it.
Has anyone here had experience with the N150, or can anyone give me some advice on which one would be the better choice?
Neither one supports ECC RAM and only a maximum of 16GB RAM for what it does support, based on the Intel CPU website.
With that said, I can see there are some being sold with 32GB RAM (and seen a claim to 128GB, yea sure). Be careful what you buy and test the crap out of it once you get it. Run Prime95 and MemTest86 on it, ensure it is solid and stable.
thank you very much, unfortunately I don’t know about hardware at all. I would like to make a reliable machine obviously and that consumes little, price let’s say it’s not a problem, I need something that will last me over time, this doesn’t mean of course that I would get a 600$/euro motherboard for a nas
If you have alternatives of course they are welcome
The motherboards these CPU come attached to are typically quite limited in terms of connectivity. Since there are only 9 PCIe lanes, you will find that there will usually be compromises in terms of SATA or NIC bandwidth. I don’t think they make good NASes.
The more I try to do something useful and quiet of my N1, the less I think of Jonsbo N cases…
But micro-ATX is good, it gives a lot of choice. So you’d be looking for a motherboard with 6-8 SATA ports.
How does this translate into hardware requirements?
