[SOLVED] Questions about Compatibility of a NAS i came up with

Jan 21, 2019
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Hello there toms hardware forum users, I have some questions about the compatibility of the drives on a Nas system for me and my 2 roommates that I came up with. Summarizing my build :

Ryzen 5 2400G - got this from my friend who's upgrading

Gigabyte GA-B450M-DS3H - also got this from my buddy

16GB ECC DDR4 RAM

450w 80+ MWE cooler master PSU

×2 16GB Intel Optane m.2 2280 pcie 3.0 nvme SSD in raid - to store windows 10

×2 6TB WD RED PRO SATA III in raid 0 - storing and streaming media

×1 1TB WD BLUE m.2 SSD - storing games & gaming off of

×1 128gb WD GREEN - since I have this one from my old rig AND the m.2 & HDD is constantly hosting files, I thought of using this one to download the media so that I can send the files to the HDD & m.2 later

+ Reason I'm using windows 10 instead of freenas - I'm more familiar with this OS + I can update my steam game on the NAS itself

+ Intel Optane pcie ssd - since I have 1 of this lying around from my gaming rig after I got crossfire set-up on it. Should I buy 1 more so that I won't have any problems getting windows 10 onto it?

Question :

Are the 4 kind of storages even compatible with the mobo or each other for that matter ?

Can the Intel Optane SSD be used as a regular fast storage for putting the OS on it ? Moreover is it okay if I have a Ryzen processor?

Do I really need to use the 128gb SATA SSD as an offloader for the drives ?




Thanks for reading this thread, have a good day my dudes. Also any improvement to this build would be fine :)








 
Solution
Looking at the spec page for that motherboard, in the memory section there is this statement "Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)" -- If it doesn't run in ECC mode, there is no reason to get ECC RAM

32GB "to store windows" isn't enough space. I wouldn't recommend anything less than 250GB with Windows 10. Sell the Optane rather than use it.

I hope that 12TB of data has a backup somewhere. That is a lot of data to lose.
Looking at the spec page for that motherboard, in the memory section there is this statement "Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory modules (operate in non-ECC mode)" -- If it doesn't run in ECC mode, there is no reason to get ECC RAM

32GB "to store windows" isn't enough space. I wouldn't recommend anything less than 250GB with Windows 10. Sell the Optane rather than use it.

I hope that 12TB of data has a backup somewhere. That is a lot of data to lose.
 
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