QUOTE(Zack Styler @ Sep 19 2021, 08:37 PM)
Thanks I asked in the rig suggestion thread and this is what I got..
Planning to go with this for now..
Pentium G6400 - 239
Asrock B560M-HDV - 360
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4-3200 X1 - 189
Cougar GX-S 450W - 159
For HDD/storage wise how many HDD I should start with? minimum of 2 right? Is SSD needed too?
Any suggestion is welcomed..
G6400 is a beast if you plan to use it for transcoding.Planning to go with this for now..
Pentium G6400 - 239
Asrock B560M-HDV - 360
Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR4-3200 X1 - 189
Cougar GX-S 450W - 159
For HDD/storage wise how many HDD I should start with? minimum of 2 right? Is SSD needed too?
Any suggestion is welcomed..
You have 4 sata + M.2, so go with at least 4 drives. use it for your steam drive first. as for M.2, if you need nvme, use DS918 image. if not, you can get a cheap M.2 to pcie x4 adapter that you can then use for a sata card. or get the m.2 to u.2 kit.
giving you an extra 4 sata ports. if you use the pcie x4 m.2 adapter, you then need to get a pcie x4 to 4/5/6/8 sata adapter. used to be dirt cheap, but because of Chia mining, it's crazy expensive.
1 SSD is recommended, but not necessary. with Xpe, you can first create one big volume/pool with all of the HDDs (/volume1, 2 or more HDDs) then use 1 or 2 SSD for either cache (for the HDD data), to install all/most of the syno apps (at /volume2) so everything is super speedy, or both (1 SSD for cache, 1 SSD for apps). you really don't need to, but it's pretty useful. can always do it later.
8GB is very sufficient.
you can definitely go with just 2 HDDs, but 4 is nicer (eg. 4x 1TB > 2x2TB).
This post has been edited by C-Fu: Sep 19 2021, 09:21 PM