Running out of things to die - TrueNAS Motherboard Replacement

[@JeffGeerling]

Next up, your case is going to randomly fall out of the rack. Might as well have a spare ready to go!

[@MCsciencesmith]

Completely underrated comment🤣

[@youllnevertakemealive2833]

After all this, did it fall, or was it pushed?

[@Antihelpful]

Hey Jeff, great videos from yourself as well, keep up the good work!

[@bluesquadron593]

Yo Jeff

[@OTechnology]

You mean a spare identical second rack all set up right?

[@nbrowser]

Pour one out for the dead motherboard, may it rest in peace.

[@MrSamadolfo]

😗🥃 Cheers

[@viperhalberd]

F

[@captain1334]

Or rust in peace

[@Nunya58294]

*cheers*

[@Romnipotent]

When the beer comes before the briefing you know it's gonna be a Linode sponsorship

[@erik3371]

I just zonen out, what is linode, ovh?

[@mikkelbreiler8916]

But it is Li'nowd or 'Linnut?

[@RaidOwl]

Virtualizing TrueNAS in Proxmox...this is the way. Mine is running in my (only) EPYC home server and I love it. Edit: I spoke too soon lol

[@CraftComputing]

If I didn't have so many cache disks and controllers to passthrough, I likely would have stuck with it in a VM. But this time round, it was just more headache than necessary.

[@monkeyrebellion117]

When people ask me what I run, I simply say "Old high end enterprise parts tied into a cheap Huananzhi motherboard. Pray for me"

[@TheFlatronify]

same here!

[@Prophes0r]

F8 or TF? I just spun up an F8 myself. And I'm actually keeping it. (Set the other ones up for other people)

[@TheFlatronify]

@@Prophes0r F8

[@CharizardSnyper]

@@TheFlatronify is it still alive?

[@TheFlatronify]

@@CharizardSnyper Of course! Currently rocking three of these boards :)

[@jacobcrisman6834]

I just upgraded my TrueNas server from a Tyan S7012 w/ dual X5650 Xeon's to a Supermicro X9DRI-LNF4 w/ Dual E5-2530v2 Xeons. First SM board, absolutely love it.

[@stephenp4440]

I started watching your channel when your video appeared about your first Supermicro 846 chassis install because I was about to build out an 846 as a test unit. My first 846 was a hodge podge of storage for TrueNAS w/Supermicro X9DRH-7F motherboard, dual Ivybridge 2653v2, the onboard LSI 2308, an HP H240 SAS3, a Dell VGXKD LSI 9207 SAS-2, a Supermicro 24 drive SAS2 expander, 10 SATA 5 TB drives (refurbished, $40 each), 4 SATA 3 TB Drives (pulled out of a failing QNAP box), 2 SAS3 1gbps SSDs ripped out of a dead EMC server and inserted in the SAS3 2.5" rear hot swap option, an NVMe add-on card, and 10 SAS2 SSD pulled from a failing EMC server. Oh ... and a 64 GB Supermicro SATA DOM plugged into SATA Port 0 and 256 GB of RAM. The solution was my first attempt at hyperconverged feature engineering for machine learning with "longer term" backup on spinning media in the same box. It's since been supplemented by all SAS3 and NVMe replacements with more horsepower, including multiple Nvidia GPUs, in the 846 form factor. The 846A backplane was a better replacement backplane for the original SAS2 EL1, but it was short-lived in the first 846 chassis because it had a better home in a higher throughput motherboard w/3 SAS3 controllers. ... Look at what you've done to me.

[@robertjackson771]

First off Dont Judge! I am currently running a dell poweredge 2950 with xpenology running on it. Basic server running all my dockers, home assistant on a vm, backing up all my google drive files and computers to it. But thanks to you and all these TrueNAS videos I am taking a serious look at the chenbro and I currently have a TrueNAS running in a vm to play with and get the hang of before I make the big change. Thank you for your videos and damn you because now I got the itch as well.

[@hescominsoon]

the dell hba's with recent firmware will act up when connected to non Dell drives. Checkout art of server and get a 330 re flashed to IT mode...eliminates this issue..:)

[@thomasb1521]

Ah dell

[@BeeWhere]

I upgraded my NAS in December from a pentium g3258 to 1st gen Threadripper 1920x in the mATX asrock taichai combo i got for 400 on reddit. Currently has 4 x 8TB shucked WD easy store white label, and 256GB NVME cache disk. I'm currently set for a while as I work to upgrade my horde of Linux ISO to the 1080p versions. I couldn't have done it without your guides. Thanks for sharing the journey.

[@tecra3toshiba149]

Thank you! I enjoy the fact that you present a verbose video. I use and have 12 yr old equipment to one gen back. I have enjoyed fine craft beer - some 10% stuff. I enjoy the dark flavors. But I also enjoy whiskey. 1792 - single batch - is a smooth - forget the water and enjoy the flavors. Like you - I am suspect of drives. I had a few DeathStars of 20 yrs ago. Mine and customers machines. So now I run 24 months and then they get pulled. Cheers Sir!

[@SHEARMANDESIGN]

Before I started watching Craft Computing, I had a 10yo Alienware laptop...... 1 year later, I now have a home built Ryzen3600/GTX1660Super gaming desktop, a DELL R710 w/ 2x X5670s running TrueNAS, an Intel SR1695GPRX (X3450) running Proxmox for Home Assistant, Pihole, etc..., an Intel S3420GPRX mobo (X3430) in a generic rack case as a network DVR and a 36U server rack in my garage. You sir.... are a bad influence!!! :D

[@Clarence-Homelab]

Great video, Jeff. This style of homelab video concerning hardware/software topics are my absolute favourite. I hope the upgrade itch isn't contagious 😉 My r5 3600, 32gigs of ECC RAM, Asrock X470D4U and 2x LSI 9207-8i are serving me very well.

[@andrer2274]

i always enjoy seeing these server type of videos

[@mediis]

Because of you and Techno Tim, I'm running an HP Z800 with a pair of 5650's and 48GB of memory. I found a computer in the trash, i3, 8GB with a sata card so I threw freenas on that. I liked it so much better than my synologies, that I'm currently building out a new Freenas box and a extra Ryzen 7 3700XT I had. I'm using one of your workstation builds as a guide for the sata card.

[@ArtofServer]

Before you throw out that dead motherboard, check all the voltages. If you can get into the OOB management (IPMI) you should be able to see the sensor readings. In particular, look at the standby voltage. Also, check the CMOS battery... probably a 2032 and see if it is below 3v. Just in case it helps you prevent that board from going to e-waste...

[@fierce134]

I'm really appreciating the MN beer scene slowly infiltrating your channel

[@PcItalian]

Where exactly do you find these amazing looking beers? I'm in a small town, and have you "trade" with friends in order to get anything worth drinking.

[@lostboy1088]

Full water-cooling setup for the whole rack. I can't have my rack hidden away so I want to make it quite.

[@majstealth]

whole house watercooling with a freezer in the basement

[@maxinemn]

@@majstealth Something something something Linus Tech Tips. Something something something something will go wrong.

[@jyvben1520]

quiet ( quite a common error )

[@jyvben1520]

@AstroCat not quite there are you , have a quiet moment and think ...

[@novellahub]

Glad you liked the Surly Dumpster Fire 2020. Hopefully you get over the hump now of your hardware failures.

[@CraftComputing]

It definitely took the edge off :-)

[@mattiashedman8845]

Just out of an upgrade of my home lab, something new and something old. I replaced my main server altogether from an HP DL380 G6 to a Dell Poweredge R720, from 128 GB RAM and 4 TB of storage to 256 GB RAM and 8 TB of storage and faster CPUs. My storage-server got a new case Fractal Design Meshify 2. Also in the Dell server, I had an H710 RAID card and I started with Seagate drives. Had the same issue as you with that brand, bought new HGST drives and an HBA H710 from Artofserver. That card is the best thing I bought for this setup.

[@CoalitionGaming]

Were the CPUs you chose just really cheap? Curious as to why you went with a 4 socket capable xeon in a 2 socket system when fast dual socket Xeons like the E5-2667v2 would give you twice as many threads at similar frequencies. Either way, great vid! My favorite hazy ever is from Wild Barrel brewing co. It's called Mozzacca. If you ever come across it, get it.

[@ozbusa]

Best way to spend the morning coffee break at work. Watch and people think I'm doing a training course. Love your vids :-)

[@joshuawaterhousify]

Hey Jeff (I hope I got the right one?), I don't usually comment, but I wanted to today. I'm a somewhat recent subscriber (in the last few months or so), and wanted to thank you. Your content is something I quite enjoy watching, and having started a job as a data center technician, it's great learning about different things that can be done with the hardware even in different settings. It's also inspired me to start dabbling in my own home labbing, even if I'm not going to be jumping straight to server hardware for it initially, and I'm looking forward to getting the gear so I can jump in. Once again, thank you for making such great content, and I look forward to your next video...and the next one...and the one after that...and, well, you know, all of them. Hope your luck wth hardware returns!

[@strkilla89]

I've actually scaled back in recent times for my home server. I run consumer hardware now. i7 10700 for intel quicksync (Plex), 64 gigs of ram, bunch of hard drives in a tiny itx box.

[@heephstan]

Yeah. Running 3600x here, and it's faster, quieter, and easier to maintain than the rack full of sh*tboxes i used to have, haha!

[@TheRailroad99]

I'm planning do downsize my 24/7 powered box as well... 60W permanent power draw is not that nice (at least better than most dual socket boards). I will have to use something like unraid with Cache storage so I can spin down my disk array. It is needed maybe 1 hour per day. However the server does need to run 24/7 for web server purposes. My plan is to have it still powerful, but in Idle it should not draw more than 30W. Is something like that managable with an underclocked/undervolted Ryzen or am I unrealistic here? The current build (socket 1156 Xeon) uses around 60W with ~5-10% load and four disks spun up

[@H1pok0ndr1ak]

Upgrade to my setup... Nice and easy. I bought a Synology ds1621+ bare 4gb Nas. I backed up my rs812 and swapped out the 4 by 4tb red hddi to the DS1621+. One OS update later and it is up and running. Because I had a couple of spare 2tb HDD laying around, I dropped them into the DS, as hot swap spares. I had 4 500gb HDD laying around, and have put them in the rs812 as raid 5, with one drive set as hot swap spare (this will soon be put on eBay for sale on there). Once I have that done, I have a ds620 which currently has 500gb drives inside, and I have purchased 6 by 1tb SSD to upgrade later this week. I have an older Netgear nvx which has been my goto server for many years, is being retired, because windows 10, doesn't like it. So busy days ahead, moving my stuff around between old stuff and new. Then once all that is done, I need to reconfigure my home security to use the new gear .. such fun... As for the NVX once I have cleared it down... Maybe use it with a Linux pc setup, or just pass it on to someone who needs it... I don't know yet

[@Anaerin]

What am I running? IBM x3650 M3, with 72GB RAM, a pair of E5620, LSI SAS2008 HBA and 5x5TB 2.5" drives. Next upgrade? Another 5x5TB 2.5" drives, and/or 2 Xeon X5687's, for better single-thread performance.

[@jyvben1520]

and sound isolation ?

[@mitlanderson]

X5687? The x58 platform? Same as the i7 X 990 and X5690? My gaming computer is running X 990.

[@zarovich69]

These SuperMicro cases are next to impossible to find now. Thanks Chai Coin

[@Jack32X]

At this rate Jeff's next video is gonna show all of this infrastructure in the bin after taking out a Linode subscription

[@papahuge]

the anxiety you have given me... flailing ur hands around next to that cold brewski every couple seconds is mind blowing.

[@darklord2703]

really enjoy your channel!, its so nice to see someone just like me. keep up the good work!

[@kyerie030]

For the broke motherboard, did you try to remove the cmos battery and not just reset the bios?

[@Arek_R.]

Is it some old mobo? Have you tried re-flashing the BIOS in case it's just bit rot of the BIOS' EEPROM?

[@doodles113]

Planning my home network and watching your videos to get some ideas....

[@ytguy2010]

You are pouring your beer right over top of the Supermicro motherboard at the end of the video! Now it will die in a few weeks! Just kidding! 😄

[@Squinoogle]

Since you did the video showing how to get FreeNAS running under Proxmox I figured you were still running that setup after upgrading to TrueNas. I probably skipped a video or two since then ;-) I had a spare Z97 ITX board with a 4790K in it that I decided to setup following that video, so I grabbed a cheap m.2 to use as a boot drive and went at it. Popped Win10 on there as well (following that video) and planned on playing around with PiHole and some other bits and pieces. The hitch right now is that all my storage drives are in a USB3 enclosure, so it's slow as hell and noisy. Next step is to get them connected up internally, though I have more disks than 3.5" bays and SATA ports, so I'm either going to have to pick up an HBA or move it all over to an even older system (X58 & i7-920) which has plenty of bays and just enough ports.

[@colddripgaming]

“I have really good luck with hardware”

[@TheExcelon87]

My homelab consists of purely just a small whitebox NAS. Ali Express special with a Machinist X79 MB, Xeon E5-2640 (yes, V1), 32GB ECC RAM. Added an Avago RAID controller for hardware RAID 5. Icy Dock cage for 5x 2TB 3.5" drives mated to an ARK 4U chassis. Just running a bare metal install of WS2016 for Plex and a shared drive for backups of all my local gaming machines. For how "cheap" it was altogether that thing is rock solid.

[@logan_kes]

Honestly as soon as he said it’s a gigabyte motherboard i knew what was up. I’ve had way to many gigabyte products fail to ever buy another one again

[@danieltur-bes2036]

What board do you recommend?

[@MasonzeroDigitalWorks]

I've had good luck with consumer motherboards from Gigabyte, and the Gigabyte boards I have boot insanely fast (yes, tested with different drives and motherboards, and determined it was the mobo causing the speed increase)

[@joshface04]

Yep. Got a A320M-S2H motherboard for my home server and it was dead out of the box.

[@joshface04]

@@danieltur-bes2036 ASUS or MSI

[@danieltur-bes2036]

@@joshface04 👍

[@skaltura]

That brewery deserves big thumbs up! :) Shame we can't get that here on the other side of the spheroid

[@vorlock7149]

Currently running TrueNAS inside of Proxmox with 8 3TB Seagate Constellation in the System, passed through with a LSI 2008 HBA and 1 drive in the shelf.

[@Busy-Signal]

Currently Running HP Z Series Dual XEON Boxes on ESXi and a TrueNas Xeon box. Just about to consolidate all of this and move to a Proxmox box running BlueIris in a VM. Lots of PCIe Storage and a new case. Also just built a 4 RasPi 4 8GB rack mount for the home rack to handle the PiHole and some other monitoring things...

[@BobHannent]

I started with a basic Synology 2 bay NAS, then built a small Atom C2000 Proxmox server. I replaced the Synology with a 5 bay newer model with dual gigabit. Then I had a saga where I changed a few motherboards before I got a Xeon E-2278G with a Supermicro X11-SCL-F and 8 cores running Proxmox and having a Quadro P600. That took me up to 10GbE so I wanted my storage to be 10G ready as well. I replaced the spinning disks in my server with 3.5TB of enterprise SAS SSDs which I got for a steal. Then I foolishly decided to go 10GbE with my NAS, so I got an 8-bay QNAP NAS with PCIe slots which got a Mellanox 10GbE card, and two SATA M.2 NAS SSDs. I'm currently shuffling data around to free up HDD drives to migrate them to the new 10GbE NAS. My current issue is that the Xeon server occasionally fails, seemingly at random. Hearing your woes with your board has me concerned, but I am also suspicious of Proxmox because I am using PCIe pass-through of the GPU. I've seen my network stack on Proxmox failing and I think the PCIe bus virtualisation causes issues. Next I need to justify to myself why I have 25TB of storage... I am planning on playing with LizardFS to consolidate my spare storage for the hell of it.

[@nelizmastr]

I've been very happy with my Dell PowerEdge T140. Upgraded it from a 4c/4t to a 6c/12t Xeon E2136, 48GB of RAM. Runs VMware very well. Quadro P620 passed through for Plex, Dell Perc H330 controller (it's not an HBA, actually. Dell firmware is RAID mode by default), 256GB NVMe card. Light services run on my Synology RS815+ nowadays, with 16GB RAM and 4 4TB WD Red Pro drives.

[@thedeathwalkerlore]

Currently working on migrating my servers and desktops to a single box for simplicity. Currently waiting for more reviews of Threadripper Pro MoBos before deciding if I go Pro or wait for Zen3 later this year. Do have a question that you might be able to answer. How would you cool a Threadripper in a Chenbro SR107? It is a 5U chassis that make me really want to attempt watercooling using 3 120mm Rads... But not really sure it will work.

[@shammyh]

Great video, but two technical notes: Likely, the camcontrol problem can be resolved by adding a delay in the kernel boot params. Basically, you need to wait extra long if you have a lot of disks attached. It's quite a vexing issue to debug though... Ask me how I know... 😉 You can disable pcie boot roms in the SuperMicro bios config, and I'd strongly recommend it for any card that doesn't actually have a boot device on it. There's A LOT of very obscure config in the X9/X10/X11 bioses for the record... But it's worth reading carefully through the manual at least once as some of the defaults can bite you in the butt.

[@sysdrum]

It is a dumpster-fire of course it is your favorite hazy ever.

[@RussSirois]

What hardware do I run at home? My NAS is a Dell XPS tower with an i7-6700 running Server 2019, with a flashed IBM M1015 and Quadro P400 for Plex. I've been using DrivePool for many years and just recently started adding per-folder duplication and a SSD cache. I played around with Hyper-V on there but ultimately decided to use a RPi4 for all my Docker containers. I have my eye on a decommissioned Lenovo RD350 at work with an E5-2603v3 -- Just add 10Gbit ethernet and a matching Lenovo SA120 or two.

[@ImbaCore]

Did You try 'tape mod' with dell HBA?

[@ColeMarkusen]

Dang, I feel this one. Recently had two HBAs partially fail on me after years of use, they'll be missed. Dual 2630v2, X9 board, 128GB ECC, x540 nic, 9211 HBAs. Waiting to see what the upcoming DDR5 platforms look like. Hopefully the current rig will do for another couple years while DDR5 matures

[@XSmile2008]

My NAS is AMD Athlon 200GE, some A320 motherboard and 16GB of ram, 2x WD red 3TB in RAID, 2x SSD - one for HDD read cache and one for temp files, Docker applications and other stuff that constantly backuping or I don't care if I loss it.. It's running XPENology, with Home assistant, Transmission, Pihole in Docker. Also it syncs our Google Drives and Dropbox for easy access in local network without installing clients on all computers. But most common use case is just Plex.

[@ghaberek]

I'm running Proxmox on a Gigabyte BRIX 4105R with a 1TB SSD and 8GB DDR4. I've named it "Proxmini" and I've got about a dozen LXC containers for MariaDB, Postgres, Pihole, Nextcloud, Bitwarden, Mattermost, Paperless, Omada, and a few others. My next "upgrade" is probably going to just be getting an identical unit to put beside the first and set up a cluster so I can migrate live containers and balance resource usage. I'm backing up using Proxmox Backup Server to NFS storage on my old Synology DS212, which has two shucked WD Elements 8TB drives in RAID1.

[@DJGuaguanco]

Hi Jeff. The motherboard is Supermicro X9DAi, not X9ADI :D. I use for my NAS a ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard with 2 Intel Xeons E5-2630L V3 with 64GB ECC RAM DDR4, 1 NVME Samsung 970 EVO PLUS for a cash drive, one HDD Seagate Exos 6TB. And 1 Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SATA for the virtualizations. Operating system i use is UNRAID. Some old videocards for virtualisation (exchange and domain servers). And a Corsair RMx 750 Gold for power.

[@gromett]

Subscribed for the Video card. Virtualising a standard 1660 Super would be amazing.

[@cujocujo]

The story of my life, at work AND at home. I know I need another hobby :(

[@muhwyndham]

IDK, the more I know the more sophisticated the issue I face. I mean, at first I only have to deal with simple OS issue, etc. Lately I am dealing with obsecure errors happened with certain driver version of certain hardware, which requires me to fix the executable and everything. And it's not like the things that I do change very much lol...

[@rigsbyrigged1831]

The inside of that case was filthy and you just dropped a new board in without cleaning it! WOW!

[@bambinone]

Tough luck with that Gigabyte board. Fingers crossed your good hardware luck returns soon. I just upgraded my single-server homelab from a Xeon E3-1240 v2 (Ivy Bridge, four cores) with 32GB DDR3 and four data disks to a Xeon E5-2680 v4 (Broadwell, 14 cores) with 128GB DDR4 and 16 data disks (plus hot spares and SSDs for special and slog devices). It's been quite an upgrade and I'm doing a lot more virtualization (similar to what you were trying to do with Proxmox and TrueNAS). I also added a Quadro P620 for hardware transcoding and 10GbE links to my two main workstations. I'm happy with the platform (Supermicro X10SRH with an onboard SAS3008 controller) but I kind of wish I'd gone with a dual-socket board and an Intel RES3 expander (instead of a RES2). I should have jumped straight to 25 or 40GbE so that's probably next. I am also regretting putting all these disks in a Fractal tower, lol... next time I will suck it up and do a shelf!

[@bambinone]

P.S. I have HBA330s in my two R630s at work and they're all flashed and working perfectly with zfs. Let me know how I can help.

[@gannas42]

My TrueNas box is a Dell R820 I found in the disposal pile at work. 64 cpu threads and 320GB RAM. Slapped in a second internal 8 bay SFF cage, some IT mode flashed PERCs with external SAS ports, and some disposed ES30, SC220, and SC200 disk shelves. Way overkill but going to try running some k8s node virtual machines on the truenas box to see how that performs and maybe use the extra performance.

[@MinorLG]

Soo.... I recently bought a lto library, and I need a 2 port fiber channel adapter to talk to the lto drives. Any recommendations?

[@nobatadared]

>what hardware do you use I dont have a personal homelab yet but i hope whenever i get the opportunity to build a new desktop i'll turn my old one into a server. i want to put proxmox on it and run plex/jackett/sonarr/radarr/etc on it. y'know, start small and work up from there.

[@stevenlee603]

Currently running an X99-WS/IPMI with an e5-2676v4 (used to be a e5-2683v3). Alongside it is 4x16gb (64gb total) 2133mhz ECC RDIMMs, Quadro P4000, LSI 9211 HBA, and hopefully by the weekend, a Mellanox SFP+ NIC. Current storage is a 1TB 970 Evo, 2x2tb WD Red Plus and a random 850 evo m.2. ESXi is my hypervisor of choice. Next upgrade incoming is two more 2x2tb and hopefully a rackmount chassis.

[@dkwolf1]

Nice looking TrueNAS box now :) This is my setup: Storageserver: Supermicro H8SML with AMD Opteron 3350 HEL, 16Gig ram, 3x8TB HDD, 2TB SSD for ESXi ISCSI (running Fedora Core 32) EXSi server: Supermicro X10SDV-4c-TLN4F, Xeon-D 1581, 64Gb ram - running about 15 VMs (ESXi 7.0) Rest of my network is 10Gb NetGear switch and Unifi switch/UDM PRO This is more or less what i am allowed by the wife to run :D My next thing to get, is new HDDS.... but as it looks rigth now, it sucks to buy 14+ TB drives

[@Graham_Rule]

That beer looks very good. But are you sure you should be working on computer parts while drinking a 9%? I usually reserve those for after I'm finished.

[@arjen-online]

My home server is my old desktop, an i5-8400. I have managed to virtualize my NAS though. Running proxmox with an Unraid VM, among others. And future upgrades? Well... it's probably going to be a new case first. The case it was in as my desktop only supported 3 3.5" disks, it's in a really old case now that supports 5... but that case is noisy as hell.

[@TheRailroad99]

Why do you virtualize your NAS within unRaid? Wouldn't it be better to just use unRaid itself?

[@arjen-online]

@@TheRailroad99 I virtualize unRaid in Proxmox. Why? Because I have a machine running Proxmox and I didn't feel like adding a second machine while the first one could do it just fine too. And it was something I had never done before, curious how it would work.

[@rider68-12]

Are you using proxmox backup? just asking. I agree all the machines falling out of the rack or a switch going is belly up is in your future. LOL

[@LtGen.Failure]

My homeserver runs on a XEON E5-2650L V2 / Dell H200 / Quadro P400 and 128 GB of RAM with TrueNas and Plex virtualized in Proxmox (with PCIe passthrough to both VMs). First i had a dual Xeon setup in mind but decided against it due to the cost of electricity and a more realistic view of my needs.

[@richardreilly7085]

Jeff, great video as usual, I want to transfer my old pc into a rackmpount case for true nas. any opinion on this case ( i need a compact one for my mini rack) Monoprice 3U Compact Rackmount 3x5.25" MicroATX/PS2 - Monoprice.com coupled with my old pc, i7-2600k with 16gb ddr3, i need to get some kind of video card for output do you think that would work?

[@DigitEgal]

Do you still use the same PSU that got flooded once? I honestly think that could be the issue.

[@joshhardin666]

My setup isn't nearly as sophisticated as yours but it works quite well for my needs. My truenas server is running a gigabyte z77 chipset board with the old i7-2600k from my high end workstation build in 2011 (that thing is a workhorse and for storage, plex (no real-time transcoding), transmission-daemon with quite a few various linux distribution iso's, and a very small totally unprivliged ubuntu vm that i use for accessing my internal network from external networks via ssh (I use rdp over ssh pretty often). the machine has 24gb of ddr3 and 8x shucked 10tb western digital easystore drives. I have to power them with molex to sata adapters because the 3.3v pin triggers these drives to reset so if i plug them into sata power directly they just reset constantly instead of operating. because molex only has 5v and 12v, no molex to sata power adapter has a populated 3.3v pin. i'm using the onboard gigabit ethernet that goes to my privliged vlan and I also have an intel 10g base-t card which has a 100' cat6 cable plugged into it that goes up the stairs over a few doorways and into my home office to be plugged DIRECTLY into my primary workstation ( pcpartpicker.com/user/cpgeek/saved/RxfdHx ) I currently have the server set up in a 2010 vintage cooler master desktop case. I would very much like to upgrade to an enclosure that can hold more drives, but that can function on a normal atx power supply (for quiet and inexpensive replacement). every single server enclosure i've ever seen has been SUPER noisy (typically for no good reason) due to the fact that they use really tiny power supplies with really tiny fans that need to spin super fast to have any hope of getting air through them. I live in a smallish house and the multipurpose room that my server currently sits in is just across a very small hallway from my 2 childrens' bedrooms and if i put it in MY home office, it would A. be too noisy to work around, and B right next to the bedroom my wife and I share... either way my family would hate me... - if anyone has any solid leads on either rack or tower enclosures that can comfortably store 16 drives or more while being no louder than a common desktop gaming computer, please let me know.

[@bhstone1]

I can find so little about the e5-4627 v2. Is non-OEM or something?

[@RetroAnachronist]

My TruNAS box is in a CoolerMaster Cosmos II case. 1600watt Corsair power supply. I’m using a old Gaming motherboard with an i7 4770 in it. 64gb of ram, it’s where all my old DDR3 went when I upgraded to DDR 4. Heh. I bought used HGST enterprise drives. Ive got 6 SATA 3tb drives on the motherboard SATA controller, 10 SAS 4tb drives on two Dell SAS controllers. Ive had the 3tb drives for about 5 years now without a single failure, and the 4tb drives have been in there a year with no failures.

[@84Actionjack]

Can't keep up with you. First TruNAS in a VM (but that was for a friend), then outside a VM and now back in again. Trying to figure out the best course of action here. Guess I'll have to try both and see.

[@subman719]

All I run are Supermicro MB’s for my servers with older Xeon CPU’s in both single and dual configurations and Asus workstation MB’s for my PC’s. Only had one dud Serverboard out of 10 used boards and had bad luck quickly with ASRock MB’s for a PC. I also had bad luck with Seagate constellation 2TB “refurbished” drives so now I only buy NEW WD Gold drives and so far, no issues.

[@nimblor]

I am very interested in building a similar setup for a homelab. I was really considering proxmox with truenas as an option but I am not so sure now. However, it is unlikely that I will need to have cache drives but I don't like the lack of options. If I do this plan, I will for sure get a sas3 backplane to help. Other proxmox vms would be plex and related items and maybe opensense router. Any thoughts on homelab router vms?

[@mpgraber]

Explain further the abstraction benefits of virtualizing FreeNAS on top of Proxmox? Don't you lose throughput (and RAID / Drive ID awareness) by virtualizing the drives?

[@lanceevans4372]

your videos are seriously helpful, running unraid Acer Gateway GT350 F1 - dual Xeon X5670 + 96GB ram + 12x 4TB Toshiba X300s + 2x 1TB Seagate SSDs

[@Agurri]

My TrueNas server is based on the AsRock C2550D4i... yes that infamous motherboard. I'm touching wood but I did buy it in 2015... and it never failed. But yeah, an upgrade is in the pipeline at the moment :D

[@juanantonyphoenix]

Currently only have a TrueNAS machine on an old Dell T1700 motherboard, E3-1226 v3, 16gb of ECC RAM, Dell SAS controller flashed to LSI IT mode. I'm currently debating on building a dual Xeon E5s V2 or going with a Ryzen 9 3900X for a virtual lab server.

[@UntouchedWagons]

Right now I've got a Dell Poweredge R510 running proxmox pulling double duty as a NAS, I plan on installing TrueNAS on it when my USB to SATA adapter comes in. I've also got a Poweredge R610ii which is awaiting a second Xeon CPU. When that CPU comes in I'll also install a 10 gigabit NIC so that VMs on the 610 can communicate quicker with the storage on the R510.

[@UntouchedWagons]

I had a hard drive die on me. Thankfully I had a spare ready to go.

[@benoittheminerandgamer]

Do you have a budget chinese motherboard from aliexpress to replace the expensive Supermicro X9ADI.

[@TheRobMozza]

I'm looking for a budget motherboard, capable of >64GB ECC memory. Preferably >4 memory slots. Everything else is negotiable. Ideas please

[@BWGPEI]

You reinforce my conviction that reliability is worth a lot more than having blazing performance. I also am having issues with virtualisation and wonder if there is a conspiracy afoot? I'd hate to think that these annoyances are just business as usual.....

[@blazingmatty123]

On the cpu front, what about the 2667 V2's? if memory serves they're the same base clock also with a turbo to 4GHz and they do 3.6GHz on all cores but they keep their hyperthreading and are still 8 cores, so 8/16 each at the same clocks, might be worth considering, I used to have a pair of these and they're damn quick

[@SvDKILLSWITCH]

I am but a minnow in the homelab ocean. My "homelab" is my old PC tower - an i7-3770 on a Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3, 32GB of mismatched DDR3 RAM (I think there's an 1866 MHz kit of HyperX, and a 2400 MHz kit of Dominator Platinum in there), an old 120GB Samsung 830 SSD, and a couple of old laptop hard drives. I wanted to get my feet wet with Proxmox - I don't really have any previous experience with VMs outside of some VirtualBox stuff and good old Windows XP Mode in Windows 7. Right now it's mainly used for a couple of game servers for my friends. We play games like Valheim and ARK from time to time with it operating as the dedicated server. The only thing that sketches me out with it right now is the internet security side of things. Other than that, it's a bit of casual experience in the Linux world. I'm not sure where I'd go with upgrades for it, as it mostly houses hand-me-downs from other PCs getting upgrades. In fact I think a new router is probably the best thing my home network could use right now.

[@martynhancox8178]

I use an old HP microserver for both of my TrueNAS servers which backups to cloud and then replicates to another HP microserver. Been running now for 4+ years, only thing gone wrong is the PSU died a few months ago but got hold of a cheap replacement on ebay. I know rubbish hardware but for my current needs works fine but do need to start looking into getting new hardware, need to do some ebay shopping and look to get something with 10GB network capability.

[@marksabljic7719]

The upgrade itch is real, I have a Xeon e5 2650 v3, 64 gb ecc ram, as rock x99, gtx1050 all running a nas, pled and internal surveillance camera system. Think I’ll need a 10gb nic so that I can isolate the camera system and have better through put for the nas and plex server!

[@RemyL75]

Main server is a TR 1950X Unraid build with 64GB of RAM and 136TB of usable storage with 16TB for Parity and a 4TB NVME cache pool, a 2nd smaller Unraid build with a R7 3800X, 32GB of RAM, 11TB usable, 5TB Parity and 2TB NVME cache and 2 Truenas builds. One for storage (R7 2700X, 32GB RAM and 30TB usable) and one for testing (FX 8350, 32GB RAM, 12TB usable). I am working on raspberry Pi projects and network upgrades, so won't be looking at server upgrades until 2022. But i do want/need some cache drives for the Truenas servers, so that's def on the list.

[@Mr_Meowingtons]

man I have 2 X9DAi both with the same symptoms with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2690 V2 unstable AF just Locking up 2 times a week. I'm giving up on it and going back to my Dual 1366 I was using for Plex thing is OLD but Rock solid.

[@hbhamilton3]

Right now I'm running an i7-7700K on a non-server board. I'm no longer using TrueNAS, Proxmox, ESXI, or anything like that. Just Ubuntu 20.04 on bare metal. I use Docker and Docker Compose for running VMs.

[@bighairycomputers]

One server is an Asus X99 WS/IPMI board with a Xeon 2660 V4, the other is a Gigabyte X399 board with a 1920X Threadripper. The Xeon has two hardware RAID controllers and three arrays of four drives each, two are 4 TB drives, the last is 8 TB, and that serves as my two storage and one backup NAS drives. I don't have a good other use for it. The Threadripper setup has dual NVMe drives and a 1080 Ti for streaming video capture, and one of the LAN ports connects directly to the Xeon server. It captures and writes to the NVMe drives in RAID 0, then I transfer footage to the Xeon server. If I'm going to do any editing on it, I leave the footage on the NVMe array and edit it off there on the Threadripper system. I also have a 6950X that I have no real good use for. Maybe a Minecraft server. Idk.

[@p3chv0gel22]

During the sponsor spot, you've shown the Server location for Germany would bei Frankfurt (more or less the home of every bank in Germany), and my first thoughts were "Yeah, where else would you build your data center, other than Frankfurt? Thats the only place with usable Broadband infrastructure here" xD

[@PoisonWaffle3]

Hopefully your new hardware holds out! My home network has a different focus than yours. Mine is more about the networking than the of hardware. I'm running a pair of 48 port gig poe Cisco 2960's and a 48 port gig Dell switch (soon to be replaced with a 3rd 2960). I was running an old dual Xeon IBM server, but haven't replaced my raid card after it died on me. I replaced it with a pair of raspis. One running home assistant, the other running Zabbix and docker containers.

[@KosmiK2001]

Supermicro X9DRH, Dual 2650v2, 32gb ram. Gentoo.

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

I'm running TrueNAS on my trusty i7 3770k with 32 GB of RAM and 8x4TB drives on a random Gigabyte board.. It was my old desktop board before I upgraded to my current AMD AM4 platform.... it's my Plex server mainly, but I have an NFS share enabled. :) I honestly don't plan on upgrades right now, though I'd like to totally rebuild with server grade hardware at some point, with a rackmount case. My current case is a rackmount, but I have no rack. lol.

[@TheAnoniemo]

Running an Asrock J4205-ITX with 16GB of ram running FreeNAS inside of a Fractal Design Node 304 and two 4TB WD Red drives for storage. Soon to be upgraded with 2x 1TB SSD and a quad port NIC to run Proxmoxx (or TrueNAS scale??) and have some fun with VMs and networking. It's a surprisingly capable little box, even with just a 4 core atom CPU.

[@prreggae]

Hey amigos. Have a Thecus 8 bay NAS (older version that only runs 3gbs speeds / HD). Total of 16TBs installed on it that backs up my Plex server. I'm planning on getting a used Dell R720 to create a virtual set up. It doesn't have to be a Dell R720, it can be anything similar and/or cheaper. Any recommendations? Have an old R620 (MB dead on it). So I have a pair of CPUs, tons of Mem RAM, and 15+ 2.5 SAS drives (8x 600GBs, several 300GBs, and also 146Gbs laying around). Also have tons of 2TBs and several 4TBs also. Thanks 😊

[@bigMax1337]

my home server is a raspberry pi 0w, running apache2, samba, sftp and some weird internal api stuff. not bad for a little 10$ sbc

[@huterdeslichts2092]

We are planning a home/game server with a Dual Xeon E5-2690 v3 on an Intel server motherboard. I'm really excited, but I have no idea if that will work.

[@GbpsGbps-vn3jy]

You definitely need and a 2x40, 50 or 60mm fans for cooling the controller. And swap those boxed coolers for better ones (too noisy and not so effective like tower designs). Now about the faulty mobo - just send it to some good repair shop near you. It's expensive to not to check what's broken

[@epic_clint]

finally a beer i can actually get here in MN