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.
| 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 |
You’ve not actually started what your uses are for the machine.
Which vehicle is better, a Duramax 3500 or a Chevy Bolt?
Both excellent vehicles with hugely different use cases.
I haven’t explored very much what I’ll do but I want to be able to play Minecraft on my laptop (which it crashes now when I load it). I’m also getting a 1660 GPU for the server to transcode to the laptop.
I also want my laptop to not run out of RAM when using Chrome so I will VM from the server.
I’d like to run my storage.