JimJimson

Yep, that's the plan. 3x8TB will sound like the way to go in that case. A question about PSU's then: Is it worth going balls to the wall efficiency? Is there a benefit going above an 80+ gold rating when it comes to 24/7 operation?

That's exactly my plan, I'm going to be using RAID-Z to provide single drive redundancy, so should I be considering that much ram? I can always set up 16gb with 2x8 sticks and have room to expand. It sounds like 3-5 4TB drives is the way to go though. Do I have to worry about storage limits? Previously I was looking at a Dell T110 and it can only handle 12TB

I plan on having 1 drive redundancy, am I right in thinking that using larger drives means that more space will be lost to parity?

Hi, I'm looking at building a home server which is low power, quiet, and won't break the bank too crazily. Currently I've been using The nas killer 4.0 guide as a general list of recommended parts and really like the look of the fractal design node 804 as the housing for my build. I think I want to go down the route of used server hardware, as I like the idea of having ECC. With that in mind I've been eyeing the Supermicro X9SCL or similar as the motherboard, with a reasonably low power xeon (E3-1265L V2 for example). With this I'd get 32GB ddr3 ecc and an SSD boot drive. I have an old gtx 960 which I could repurpose for HW transcoding, if need be. My main questions are surrounding storage though. I probably am looking at 5-6 2TB drives with single drive redundancy, but haven't really been able to determine the best way to do this. Should I be looking at Sata/SAS drives? Would it be beneficial to go for larger drives, e.g. 4TB? I hope I've provided enough information