Fujitsu D3643-H MB B360 (Intel,1151,DDR4,Micro-ATX), S26361-F5010-V160

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Load of disks: thinking about 12-18 2.5" drives + 3 SSD's for Special allocation classes (coming in TrueNAS core) and 2 SSD's for FreeNAS.

Virtualization: https://www.truenas.com/community/t...ide-to-not-completely-losing-your-data.12714/ Not (only) because you might expect another complete disk failure, but because of dataloss due to on-disk data corruption. Based on their suggestions I assembled the following components for my workstation PC build: CPU: Intel i7-8700K Mainboard: MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon (today I would use the Fujitsu D3643-H instead, see below) RAM: 4 x Crucial DDR4 16 GB PC4-19200 non-ECC (64 GB in total) SSD 1: Samsung SSD 960 Pro M.2 SSD 2: Samsung SSD 850 Pro (data disk from my previous machine) CPU cooler: Thermalright Macho Rev.B Power supply: be quiet! Pure Power 10 400 Watt Case: be quiet! Pure Base 600 GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G 6GBFirst thing I was thinking about was the chassis. Considering I don't live in the USA right now I need to buy something that can be shipped to Europe someway. I found some good candidates, even from old posts on other forums like this on LTT, and at the end I think I will go with the Node 304. There are many different ways to measure CPU performance. I find Cinebench to be a useful indicator. It has both single-core and multi-core benchmarks. The single-core result of 203 is even slightly higher than expected. The multi-core result of 1414 is only surpassed by some of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs and by Intel’s expensive i9 processors. Cinebench and Meltdown/Spectre Product name is a brand's identification of a product, often a model name, but not totally unique as it can include some product variants. Product name is a key part of the Icecat product title on a product data-sheet. Burn-in and testing: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/building-burn-in-and-testing-your-freenas-system.17750/

I would advice just using 1 RAIDZ2 vdev with 6 drives, that leaves you the option to upgrade to 2 or even 3 vdevs in the future. I knew I needed a faster CPU for zstd and wanted more disk-slots to use DRaid once it launches. It's a SCALE focused build, with enough processing power to decently run some containers/VM's as well as provide some storageHome Surveillance, okey your disks are not going to spin down much, period... so your idle is basically "Idle with disks". In that case I would advice 2.5"drives, because you are hard pressed in doing 80W idle with 3.5" disk spinning