I’ve made my first server part list which I plan to upgrade the RAM for when needed and the drives if I need to. Are these parts balanced?

I plan to use TrueNAS Scale with the XCP-ng hypervisor and VMing programs to my laptop.

Storage will be ZFS. I only have < 256GB of data so my two old hard drives with an external HDD backup will be enough (if this works). The SSD will be the OS drive.

How much can this build scale and are there any bottlenecks?

The case, CPU cooler and SSD have already been bought.

Thanks.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor $145.00 @ BPC Technology
CPU Cooler Vetroo V5 52 CFM CPU Cooler $39.99 @ Amazon Australia
Thermal Compound Noctua NT-H1 3.5 g Thermal Paste $15.00 @ BPC Technology
Motherboard ASRock B550M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $159.00 @ JW Computers
Storage Kingston KC3000 1.024 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive $94.00 @ PC Case Gear
Case Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB ATX Mid Tower Case $193.00 @ Amazon Australia
Power Supply Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 ARGB 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $109.00 @ MSY Technology
RAM Micron 32GB (1x32GB) DDR4 ECC UDIMM 3200MHz CL22 2Rx8 ECC Unbuffered Server Memory 3yr wty MTA18ASF4G72AZ-3G2F1R $220.50
HDD Hitachi 5K500.B-250 - 250GB 5.4K RPM SATA 2.5" Hard Drive $0.00
HDD HGST 5K1000-750 750GB 3.0Gb/s SATA II 2.5" 5400RPM $0.00
Fan ARCTIC P12 PST 56.3 CFM 120 mm Fan $13.00 @ Scorptec
Fan Corsair Carbide 200mm Transparent Fan $0.00
Custom Electricity Usage Monitor $22.19
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $1010.68
Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-29 00:28 AEDT+1100

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  • chloe_fit@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Cezanne doesn’t support ECC udimms or rdimms, you can get standard 2x16gb kits for around $100 AUD. If you wanted to go with ECC youd need matisse or vermeer (zen2 and zen3 CPUs; such as a 5600)

    Also that CPU doesn’t have integrated graphics so might be worth picking up a cheapish video card like a GT 710 or something.