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

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Hardware recommendations: https://www.truenas.com/community/resources/hardware-recommendations-guide.12/ Home 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 So simply put: If you keep writing constantly, the disks never idle and thus never reach a chance to spin down. Regardless of how spindown itself is handled... (For spindown, a disk needs to be idle. If no disk ever idles, it wouldn't spin down regardless of the spindown setting). There have been great improvements in idle power consumption in the past years. As an example, c’t published a build for an 11 Watt PC in December 2016. This i7-8700K build, unfortunately, is not as efficient. The best I observed is a little more than 36 Watts. The typical idle power consumption is around 40 Watts. First 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.

It wasn't intended to be a "take this" kind of guide (thats also why I didn't refer exact part numbers". WD Red Pros or Seagate Ironwolf Pros are good drives, but afaik write power consumption is about 5-6W* PER DRIVE. So with 16 drives that's already 80watt... It's a topic not discussed much, but disks are actually quite a heavy power sink even at low load...Virtualization: https://www.truenas.com/community/t...ide-to-not-completely-losing-your-data.12714/ Multi-thread performance, while probably overrated, is not unimportant. There are quite a few applications out there that do use multiple threads at least part of the time to speed things up. ZIL and SLOG: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/some-insights-into-slog-zil-with-zfs-on-freenas.13633/ If you need Bluetooth only (without Wi-Fi), take a look at the Hama Bluetooth USB adapter 4.0 + EDR. Assembling the Components

IPMI support, if Supermicro is better because I would need to manage only one kind of IPMI interface since I already have one So I've been looking into second hand. The nice supermicroboards can't be found second hand for a reasonable price at the moment. And as I've come to understand over here, the consumer boards I'd better not use as well. This kinda answers the question already, but I'm gonna ask it anyway. With the very limited budget I can get (both secondhand): There are many ways to evaluate CPU performance, but it basically boils down to a simple question: am I interested in single-thread or multi-thread performance?Burn-in and testing: https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/building-burn-in-and-testing-your-freenas-system.17750/ MSI B360M PRO-VDH / Pentium Gold G5600: from my understanding it should be plenty powerful for now. The intention is to play with it some time and upgrade the board to Fujitsu D3643-H or Fujitsu D3644-B and maybe upgrade the pentium to a i3 9100 when avaiable. I know these combinations get quite low in idle power consumption, but it would have me start with a consumer board. A definite no as I've come to understand here, or....? A: At first I will use a placeholder setup (raidz2 or something), goal is to run DRAID with 3 groups of 7 disks with double parity and 1 hot-spare and a tripple mirror metadatavdev Update 2018-08-24: with the Fujitsu D3643-H there is now a board available that offers two version 1.2 DisplayPorts (up to 4K resolution at 60 Hz). As with most Fujitsu mainboards, the D3643-H is optimized for low power consumption and high reliability. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth