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My primary storage server.

This has frequently served as an all-in-one server, both storage and compute. It's had so many different incarnations. The current thinking is "use the lowest cost, least power-hungry components you have and see how far that gets you."

Component Spec / Rationale
CPU AMD Ryzen 3 Pro 4350G (4C/8T)
Motherboard ASRock B450 Pro4
RAM 32 GB DDR4-3200
Networking 10 Gigabit SFP+ card (Intel X520 chipset)
Boot drive Dual 256 GB SATA SSDs (zfs mirror)
Fast storage 1 TB NVMe SSD (zfs pool for VMs/containers)
Bulk storage 42TB zfs pool (Four 14TB disks in RAIDZ1)
More storage Two 2TB SATA SSDs (zfs mirror)
SATA 14 total ports via two SATA expansion cards
Power Rosewill 650W Bronze PSU
Cooling Standard AMD Box Cooler
Case RSV-L4500U 4U Server Chassis (12 hotswap drive bays)