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I'm currently using PIA and it's a blast, have very little speed interference which was a must for me, and overall safety in my opinion for consumer use is great for the price u pay. Biggest pro from PIA is the massive amount of servers worldwide and especially Europe, i live in the Netherlands so that was needed to reduce the speed interference from the VPN.

Thanks for all the great advice, probably gonna go with two ironwolf 6TB or 8TB drives, a bit cheaper then the WD reds i think in my area. i can always expend later when or money maybe less of a problem or the array capacity is to low. Again thanks!

More something like this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zjg4q4 Thanks for the advice

Understandable but must say that i would really like to build it, because as explained in the original its something fun I'd want to do. I like building it, its like a project you can work on, expand and re-use in the future. But i will keep the option for a non-selfbuild NAS in mind! Thanks!

Hi guys, looking for some help/thoughts on building a reasonably priced NAS. it's partially for fun and the other part is I'm in need of a new NAS anyway. My old 3TB MyCloud does it's job, but wil be running out of storage in de near future. I'm just curious on your opinion for the NAS OS, i'm leaning on UnRaid for its easier way of expanding the array, but am open to other suggestions if it would make sense. I've got the following to part lists one AMD and one Intel(I've chosen for 3 2TB drives because that amount of storage is what i'm in need now(4TB storage + 2TB for the parity-drive), and can upgrade later to more, other harddrives or an other case with just more of the same harddrives.: AMD: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tCtRJ8 Intel: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZRHsZR Looking forward to your opinions!