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 :)

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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...

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 ...

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@andrer2274]

i always enjoy seeing these server type of videos

[@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! 😄

[@kyerie030]

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

[@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.

[@ozbusa]

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

[@Jack32X]

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

[@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 :-)

[@fierce134]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@sysdrum]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@colddripgaming]

“I have really good luck with hardware”

[@zarovich69]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@darklord2703]

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

[@nielsolseniii2881]

SuperMicro X9DRi-LN4F+ with 512GB (16x32GB LRDIMM ECC 1600MHz RAM), dual e5-2658 v2, Quadro P400, dual 4x nVME Asus cards with quad 1TB nVME drives, a couple of rust spinners, some SAS SSDs (Samsung 1625) connected to LSI 9207, and a 10Gb dual port NIC for the backbone, running basically only my Plex server. I have a few other machines, but that's my baby.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@KosmiK2001]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.....

[@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.

[@Azlehria]

My home server is running a G3258/H81 with 8 GB of RAM. The upgrade is my old desktop, a 4690K/Z97 with 32 GB. Just haven't found an ATX case to throw it in yet.

[@TheNiteNinja19]

I've never had any good luck with gigabyte motherboards for as long as I've been building computers, which has been a pretty long time. And for my server stuff I go nothing less than super micro. Maybe the Seagate failure disease is spreading throughout your network, I recommend quarantining all your devices! I recently retired my dual socket Xeon x5677 96gb machine because it was using disproportionately more power than I actually needed since I don't do anything more than running Minecraft servers and plex. So I just took my boot drive out of it and threw it into my HP elite sff 8200 with an i5 2400 with 16 GB of RAM and surprisingly the process was way too easy. I'm hoping someday that high clock speed low power processors for servers will flood the used market and be much more affordable.

[@AidenPryde3025]

Hmm, I have an X9-DRi running Unraid bare metal and I also have a Dell HBA 330 and it works just fine. I'm not using it as straight SAS, but SAS to SATA, but I've not seen any problems at all.

[@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.

[@donaldoherty4]

Managed to Snag a first Gen Epyc 7551 for around €350, mobo was the same again. Ironically the ram is the most expensive part, but itll eventually be running proxmox with Zfs and Samba shares underneath (I had a truenas VM but it just had so many weird issues that I decided to give up on it). My server rn has 2 x5675s on a supermicro mobo in an old nzxt case. Main reason I'm upgrading is the power draw while relatively idle is really high, while the epyc server even with a similar workload and more hardware is just miles more efficient (~200 watts vs ~80-100). Still not sure what I'm going to do with the old server though

[@ImbaCore]

Did You try 'tape mod' with dell HBA?

[@mutosanrc1933]

Hardware I run: Supermicro Mini Server with OpnSense, X10SLM-F, 16GB ECC, Core i3 4360, 7x3TB WD Red and TrueNas on a SSD. OpnSense and all Switches will be replaced in July with an UDM Pro, Unifi 16Port Switch and an Unifi 8Port POE Switch. New I will get the access Point from Ubiquiti and can get rid of my Netgear Nighthawk. I like to replace my Truenas with hardware form ixSystems. The mini XL would be the one for me. After I changed to Ubiquiti I have 2 switches less then before and will try to sell them and the Nighthawk as well.

[@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.

[@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!

[@PWingert1966]

I think I might have gone with one of the ITX Epyc configurations and moved to a small system and higher capacity hard drives with fewer of them..

[@stormysi]

I have a Ryzen 7 2600 with 32GB ram, with an HP LSI HBA running Unraid. Got it running a few VMs (one running Mint + Plex Server) and docker, nexcloud etc etc and use it for a bit of (older - see below) gaming on W10 with Parsec. Its fab being able to do so much with a single phisical box. Then NAS duty 24/7. Upgrades....GPU it's got a GT640...(so properly dire) just missed out on getting something better when all this GPU nonsense kicked off, would like a 3060 mini or something - as the case (Silverstone HTPC) is better suited for shorter cards....so it's even harder to find a GPU for me. Also want more HDD space....just because.... Keep up the great content.

[@PrimeRedux]

I currently have a 134TB Unraid server with a i7-7700K, 32GB RAM and a 1080 Ti for Plex but planning to upgrade it to a Threadripper 1950X for those extra threads. Then I have a 72TB server with 16GB RAM running Ubuntu Server with MergerFS, it was on TrueNAS but I didn't want the parity and wanted to run docker nativeleley. It only has a i3-6100 right now but when I upgrade my Unraid there will be a chain of hand-me-downs through some systems and it will end up with a i5-6500. Next up is my Dell R240 with a Xeon E-2146G and 64GB RAM that will soon be going off to colocation. I am also going to be building a new worksation with a Xeon E-2246G. Lastly I recently aquired two ASUS R200-E9 1U servers with Xeon E3-1220 v5 and 8GB RAM each, so these definateley need some upgrades.

[@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

[@chrisbowie1438]

Recently i ordered a 2nd dell R210 II with 32gb ram for $135 on ebay, plan to use that for truenas, connect it to my disk shelf via a PCIE HBA. it only has 2 1gb ethernet ports so i plan to link them in a lagg. i like the r210 ii because it is so quiet and low on power draw, should be great for a home nas. i dont currently have enough to need 10gb ethernet so for now this will be a good solution.

[@crenn6977]

Currently running Unraid on an old i7-3770 in a Z77X-UD3H with 16GB DDR3. Previously that was an AMD A8-3820 with 8GB DDR3. About to upgrade to a couple of dual E5-2690s in a chinese 'X79' dual socket motherboard with 128GB DDR3-1600 ECC RAM and a HP H220. Partly experimenting with it all. Going to try running a game server or 2 and see how that goes and try to get my other machines compiling on that. HDDs are a mix and no SSDs in the server at present, looked at the Sun F80 however shipping to down under was more than the cards themselves.

[@Gastell0]

I've just upgraded to AMD EPYC 7551 on AsrockRack EPYCD8-2T with RTX 4000 and Quadro P4000 for all the VM, transcoding and ML needs

[@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.

[@steveheist6426]

On my homelab: It's a Dell Poweredge R620 running Proxmox for VMs (2x E52690, 192GB DDR3 ECC), and an HP Z210 workstation running TrueNAS for bulk storage of certain files, mainly media for a Plex server (E31230, 8 GB DDR3). Next upgrade Soon™ is a complete retooling of the TrueNAS server to A) rackmount it, B) upgrade it's capacity, and C) solve a weird issue where the HP tower won't boot with the spinning rust plugged in cold. Unplug the hard drives, boots just fine. Plug them in *hot* they all show up. Plug them in cold the system goes *pfft nope*.

[@georgegroot586]

My current network storage is laughably simple...a Pine64 SBC (quad core ARM, 1GB ram) running Open Media Vault sharing an external Seagate 3gb hard drive. The advantage is that it's fanless, low power, and extremely low noise since the only moving part is the spinning rust drive. Low noise is important to me since my IT stack is in my bedroom. My build to replace that is based on an Asrock quad core Celeron board with 8gb of ram, once again a fanless system, but I'll probably stick with OMV since it it served me well up until now. I have two HGST surplussed 3 GB enterprise drives which will end up in mirror configuration, but since the board only has two SATA ports I need to purchase an add on card to allow me to have a separate boot drive as well.

[@SilentDecode]

My homelab consists of a single Dell R720 with the following specs: 2x E5-2680v2, 256GB DDR3 @ 1333Mhz, Dell PERC H710p for the 4 500GB Samsung SSDs as my ESXi datastore, a Dell H200 HBA for my virtual NAS. To my virtual NAS, there are 8x 1TB SATA 2,5" enterprise disks in RAIDZ2 on my Ubuntu ZFS NAS. The R720 is a SFF model, hence the 1TB disks. 2TB isn't needed for now and 2TB is quite expensive right now. Next homelab upgrade: Some 10Gbit networking, but nothing else planned for now.

[@doodles113]

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

[@papahuge]

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

[@goldnoob6191]

Interesting video, my Z9PE died on me last week the same way you've described. She went through several PSU related failure and the last time I went in the bios I discovered unusual voltages 12V -> 15V and 5V ->6V. I'm suspecting all electrolytic capacitors.. gonna try to recap. I'm running: 2 x Xeon 2650L 392Gb Ddr3 Ecc 1833Mhz, Gigabyte ga7peslx + 2 x K6000 sli and Areca and LSI raid 2 x Xeon 2697V2 256Gb Ddr 3 Ecc 1833Mhz, Asus Z9PEd8Ws + 3 x P4000 sli and Areca and Lsi raid 2 x Xeon 2698V4 32Gb Ddr4 Ecc 2400T, Asus Z10PEd8Ws LSI raid + Rtx 4000 I'm planing adding faster/more RAM for the last one and buying more Quadros !!!

[@danielbarnes3406]

I have 8x ODroid HC2 with 4x 1GB and 4x 2GB drives. Each HC2 is runing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with LizardFS as a distributed filesystem. Not as simple as TrueNAS but more fun.

[@joshuahall587]

I am running right now in my home server is a EVGA X79 FTW motherboard, I7-3930k,64gb ddr3 1600mhz ram,5-4TB Hitatchi 7200 rpm drives with a 240gb ssd boot drive,and a GTX 690 GPU.

[@Alphahydro]

Hey, I'm running an Epyc 7262 on an epycd8. I installed proxmox and am also virtualizing FreeNAS among Win 10 and a few ubuntu and CentOS containers on 64GB of 3200..

[@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.

[@legofan2284]

I run a dell r720 with dual e5-2680v2 and 64 GB of RAM. That's pretty much overkill for my current needs, but I need to start somewhere and have room for future needs

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@MrMoxes]

I, myself, am running a Dell T430 w/ dual E5 2630v4 (10c - 20t each) but only using 64GB of Ram. I'll probably double my memory in the future but Ddr4 is still pricey and I haven't needed it yet.

[@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

[@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.

[@arnoamesz4617]

Currently, I'm running a Dell PowerEdge R730 since this was a leftover from a after decommissioned platform. Currently it is running Unraid but I am going to switch to ESX soon just because I can

[@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 👍

[@aemonblackfyre4159]

Running an E3 1220 Im planning a big upgrade with epyc Rome or milan depending on pricing and availability. Or I’ll get a 5900X for my desktop and the 2700X gets one of those cute asrock rack boards with ipmi

[@dominicheynderickx722]

My home lab set up is a 2 machine setup running vsphere7 and vSAN. Server 1 is a Chinese X79 motherbord with an Intel Xeon E5-2630L CPU, 58GB Ram and Server 2 is a Super Micro X9 DRi-F motherboard running an Intel Xeon E5-2630L with 56Gb of Ram. Servers are Virtual TrueNas with a regular SATA PCI-e adapter in passthrough, some windows Servers and some Linux Servers. Maybe adding a 3rd server later on...

[@Konr_]

I run a Chenbro NR40700 with a x79 mobo, 32gb ecc, 2687w v1. I run unraid with dual parity, sitting at 47.2 TB right now! I actually just built a new firewall with a super micro motherboard that has 6 10gbe, and it was only $80! Running on a e3-1220 v3. That might be a interesting item to check out!

[@LifeEscalade]

Currently running a 16 bay R720 with 56 gigs of ddr3 ecc and twin E5-2640's alongside a dl380p gen 8 with 64 gigs ddr3 ecc and twin E5-2667 v1's. Next upgrade.... DISK SHELF AND HBA'S!