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tl;dr I’m a noob. This is my very first build at all. For more detailed info see below. Please tell me want I can enhance. Thank you.This is the currect concept:SC846BE16-R920BPWS-920P-SQ2x active heat sink NH-U14S DX-3647Noctua NF-A8 PWMNoctua NF-A12x25 PWMCorsair iCUE Commander PRO Smart RGB Lighting and Fan Speed ControllerBIOS settings to „Energy saving“X11DPG-QTBPN-SAS3-846EL17x Hynix 64GB DDR4 HMAA8GL7AMR4N-UH 2400MHz registered ECC1x Intel I225-T1 2.5 Gbit2x Intel® Xeon® D-1712TReventually fireproof memory foam for more quiet-nessRAID6 or RAIDz2Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound--I am in the process of building my very first 24 bay Homemedia Server build. This is my very first project, I had never built anything related to networking and a server. A lot of this is new to me, I've never done anything like this before, so I ask you to review my build and give me suggestions for additions and corrections, but also advice because I'm not so sure about my current building idea yet. I want to be sure that I'm building everything correctly and that I, as a beginner, don't make any mistakes before I pull the trigger. Please let me know if I missed something in my build. Thank you.The device should be 24 bay, durable (means it should be long-lasting but also a build that I need little to maintain and remains stable), quiet, futureproof which also means it should be able to keep up with new comig technologies and increased requirements, energy-saving (consumes up to max 300w at peak) and is efficient enough to do encryption and decryption, create virtual machines via Proxmox and play several 1k videos, as well as searching fast small files (max 200mb) they should be found quickly through the search. It should be hardware RAID 6 or RAIDz2. If this is not a good solution, I ask you for suggestions on how to create 2 fail redundancy. It should be something that only needs to be built once and stays that way. The maintenance should be necessary as little as possible. I’m not so into hardware maintainment. At best I wanna build it once and it just runs. It has to shut up as much as possible.Detailed Info to the actual buildMany thanks to Mark Furneaux (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheUbuntuGuy) and Jason Rose (https://www.youtube.com/c/JasonRose). They both helped me as a beginner with there videos in my build.I chosed a Supermicro sc846 because they are customizable and provide much storage, for example, you can swap out the motherboard, and are relatively cheap compared to other manufacturers. I am currently not so sure which model of the sc846 I will take. I can't decide between therefore Supermicro SC846BA-R920B https://ift.tt/fvaMybW or Supermicro SC846BE16-R920B https://ift.tt/fmTgjq6 state that they consume a maximum of 920w, which is a significant reduction compared to other models in this category (instead of 1200w), so I think that I'm in the right category with both, so to speak, as it is important for me to reduce power consumption. And both support the super quiet PWS-920P-SQ Power suply. The difference is that the Supermicro SC846BA-R920B is cheaper than the Supermicro SC846BE16-R920B. But my question is, does the Supermicro SC846BA-R920B have other disadvantages compared to the Supermicro SC846BE16-R920B in terms of hardware equipment and for my use case? Which one would you recommend and why if you could choose between the two for my use case?In order for the device to be quieter and consume less power, I will replace the existing power suply with the PWS-920P-SQ (https://ift.tt/NBFdP9s). Since the PWS-721P-1R uses less power than the PWS-920P-SQ, I think I could save even more power with the PWS-721P-1R. I'm not so sure if I could use the PWS-721P-1R (https://ift.tt/hqBQFX7) in this build with one of the two mentoined sc846. I think that the PWS-721P-1R could run without problems even if it is not optimized for either of the two SC846 chassis (see component list) but maybe only if the power consumption is reduced enough. What is your opinion on this, can this go well?Since power suplys can often be the cause of later problems (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBk1o7BYj84), I decided to buy a new power suply, instead of used.And also in the BIOS settings I turn off the 2nd power suply so that it doesn't yell at me that the 2nd power suply is missing.I'm not sure yet what I'm going to swap out the fans with. Supermicro makes its own fans that are quiet Supermicro Server ZUB FAN-0044L and Super micro FAN-0104L4 4U but on the other hand I often read that the Noctua NF-A8 PWM (https://ift.tt/F5tqW6U) and Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM (https://ift.tt/1GKSd9s) is used to make Supermicro's SC846 quieter.But I suspect for the requirements I have, that the 2200 RPM performance of the Noctua NF-A8 PWM is not good enough to keep the Supermicro cool aqlso under full load. I would, therefore, rather tend to the Supermicro Server ZUB FAN-0044L Fans to use because it has more RPMs. Am I wrong? Otherwise, if I would take the Noctua, I maybe would also use it with a mix of Phantek Fans (75% Noctua, 25% Phantek) because the Phantek Fans are in terms of cooling better than Noctua (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTsmwKKQuL0) but a bit louder.If after all that the Supermicro will still be too loud, I would still use fireproof foams to isolate noise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8e9KT4CQs8). To monitor the fans and set how fast the fans should work, I would add the Corsair iCUE Commander PRO Smart RGB Lighting and Fan Speed Controller (https://ift.tt/OAQPl4i) use.And to improve further the cooling I would glue the hot swapple HDD slots to the openings of the sc846 HHD slot openings (https://youtu.be/GFPCvi0kW1w?t=154).To prevent potential problems with the cooling, I would replace the passive heatsink with an active one. I would take the Supermicro 4U Active CPU Heat Sink Socket LGA3647-0 (SNK-P0070APS4) (https://ift.tt/a4ntpGs) or this one NH-U14S DX-3647 (https://ift.tt/2FxVXpu prefer that NH-U14S DX-3647 because this one has a lower NSPR than the other and is therefore quieter. I am, but not sure, if the maximum CPU NSPR support of 162 watts is sufficient at full CPU load for my needs. Am I correct in saying that this comes with both Sc846, i.e. the Supermicro SC846BA-R920B and Supermicro SC846BE16-R920B are compatible because the compatibility does not refer to the chassis model but to the CPU, i.e. whether an Intel Xeon was installed or not?I'm not so sure which motherboard and CPU to go with. I'm looking for a motherboard that supports CPUs that consume little power, but are still able to meet the requirements I have (encryption and decryption, virtual machines via Proxmox and can play several 1k videos, as well as search very fast many small files (max 200mb) which should be found quickly through the search) to accomplish.I think a motherboard that supports dual CPU, lots of RAM, EEC (min. 500gb RAM EEC to be futureproof) like the X11DPG-QT (https://ift.tt/P92IWO0) and with maybe two Intel Xeon L5630 CPUs (https://ift.tt/yDireTM) and with a thermal paste (https://ift.tt/ZhyjQEN) meet the requirements I have. I think that ZFS makes sense for my case and the fact that ZFS works so that you should have one GB RAM per TB I think that much RAM makes sense. I prefer DDR4 because of the heavy reads this server must do. It seems that DDR4 is better than DDR3 in this (https://youtu.be/utWnjA4NzSA?t=288) which is my I prefer DDR4. The power consumption increases the more slots are used, so I think it would be better to use as few slots as possible and therefore use more GB per slot. I would 7x Hynix 64GB DDR4 HMAA8GL7AMR4N-UH 2400MHz registered ECC 4DRx4 memory (https://ift.tt/nhxN1oY) use. Do you know a better RAM that has lower power consumption and is cheaper?I also noticed other CPUs that could fit. What I had found so far and what could come into question is:Xeon D-1553NXeon D-1541Xeon D-2143ITXeon E5-2630 v3Xeon D-1715TERXeon E5-2650L v4Xeon D-1712TRIn general, I'm not sure which CPU to use for this build that meets the requirements and is also energy-efficient. What's your recommendation?Do you think that an M11SDV-8C-LN4F (https://ift.tt/dJDr80w) or an M11SDV-8C+-LN4F (https://ift.tt/4NmLUDb) Motherboard with an AMD EPYC 3251 would be a better idea to use in my case? And are they supported by my mentioned Supermicro chassis? The X11DPG-QT supports up to 2048GB of RAM DDR4 clocked at 2666 with ECC (https://ift.tt/PIBdnck) which of course is overkill for what i need it but makes it futureproof. I think this motherboard is compatible with both SC846 models I listed initially (SC846BA-R920B and SC846BE16-R920B) because the X11DPG-QT is still within dimensions.In order to save more power, I will then adjust the BIOS settings to "Power Saving", preferably immediately after I have updated the BIOS.I want to get 2.5gbit to get enough speed which would be important when looking for a lot of small files (max 200mb). I know that basically speaking, Realtek is generally not well supported by Linux and TrueNAS, since realtek is not open source, so I would go for an Intel I225-T1 2.5 Gbit (https://ift.tt/UE4LNaX) PCIe NIC.Otherwise, can you recommend me a 2.5Gbit NIC that is best supported by linux/TrueNAS and causes the fewest problems and is stable?I would take the Supermicro BPN-SAS3-846EL1 SAS3 (https://ift.tt/Kp76cCy) as a backplane, because it supports SAS3. What SAS3 backplane do you recommend me for this build? I really want that SAS3 speed.Sorry for my bad english.I’m glad for every help and every idea to enhance this build. Feel free to PM me if you prefer. Thank you very much for reading.
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