BryanNichols10

Thank you so much for the response. I will try this out and see what happens!

Hey there, I know that the PSU is capable of powering it as I had it up and running prior to changing the cpu cooler. And as far as I can tell, all of the connections are good. I’m leaning towards some dead component, but I’m not sure what it is!

Hey all, i was installing a Noctua cooler as an upgrade from my amd stock cooler. I put everything back together, plugged everything in, and pressed the power button and nothing happened. i noticed that the light on my GPU that is usually white was red, so I looked and saw that the plus 2 cables on the 8 pin had come undone and I had only plugged in 6 of the 8. So I fixed that and the light on the GPU went to white once I plugged in my PSU. So I hit the power button and again, nothing happened. I thought maybe something had come undone while I was changing the cooler so I pulled off the front panel connectors and tried shorting the pw pins but still nothing happened. And when I say nothing happened, I mean no fan spin, no mother board leds come on, absolutely nothing. So could it be I messed up my mobo while installing the cooler somehow? That was my first thought, but the light on my GPU indicating power still works, and devices like USB still work. could it be my power supply? Maybe something happened to it? The only reason I’m hesitant is because when I flip the switch on the PSU I get the Mobo leds to flash and then go to black. And the light on the GPU indicating power is on. I also suspect the PSU Just because it was one of the more budget items in my build. i did remove my CPU from its socket and I did not see any bent pins. I also tried powering it up without the gpu or ram installed just to see if those could be causing it to not post. I’d greatly appreciate any help! Thank you in advance! specs: AMD Ryzen 5 3600x Aorus B450 M mATX mobo ASUS ROG 1660 Super Thermal Take Smart 500w

So I am a FreeNAS user so I'm not 100% of what it is like on Unraid but you have a couple options. On FreeNAS, the you can use things like Rsync or cron jobs to make this happen Another option you have is a 3'd party software to do this. I really like a program called Syncthing. It's open source and pretty simple to set up and they have a version of it for pretty much everything. Good luck!

Yeah that's why I would suggest FreeNAS. All of that is super easy to set up. If you go on youtube and check out their channel they have a bunch of videos going through the whole process. At the end of it, you'd get a drive that would show up in the network portion of your file browser on windows. My best suggestion is to just try it! Get an old desktop, throw a drive in it, and experiment before you put any serious money into it. I will say that the network side of FreeNAS and other NAS can be very easy, or very complicated depending on what you want to. I would suggest checking out the FreeNAS youtube and watch their videos going over the install process and setting things up. I think you'll find it's a lot easier than you think.

So yeah, that's a pretty open ended question. But thankfully you came to the right place! Your best bet is to go through this forum and read all they other guy's posts asking for starting NAS info. But to start with the basics, A NAS is simply a desktop computer that runs a specified operating system to manage file storage and transfer. There is plenty of options of operating systems out there for this and most are either open source or are less than 50 dollars to purchase. What I personally use is an OS called FreeNAS. It's an openBSD based OS that is super easy to set up, it has a very clean web interface, and can support VMs and has a lot of different plugins built in to it if that's something you like. It's also pretty popular so its well documented and plenty of people would be able to give you support. Now as far as the actual machine; You can go for a specialized NAS computer sold by companies as a one and done solution. But often times these can be over priced, and not provide that many options for expanding in the future. My advice would be to convert an old system that you may have lying around, or try to find a newer dell optiplex or something of the sort to convert into a system. Generally speaking, if your goal is just to move files around, a quad core, 4th gen Intel or AMD equivalent, is more than enough. I personally use an AMD A10 from 2011 in my system and it is capable of running a VM, as well as transfer files, and stream 1080p video at the same time. Now these are just some ideas. My best advice is to read a lot and get a lot of other people's advice. I have a bit of experince but there are many others who have way more than I do. Also, do some reading about the terms and what is actually happening behind the scenes in a NAS OS and especially about RAID. The more you know before going in, the less likely you'll make mistakes with your data! Good luck, man. NAS's are a lot of fun!

Yeah man you probably fried that card unfortunately. When power supplies fail they fail spectacularly, likely the voltage regulation failed on that PSU and when that happened way too much current went into that card and probably fried it's memory. It might be time to retire that card, the fact you can't flash the bios is not good.

Okay i'll look out for that

Gotcha okay cool! Glad to know its worked out for somebody. Makes me feel a bit better!

Hey all, There seems to be a lot of pretty good deals on things like HBA's and NICs on Ebay to be had. As it is still quite a bit of money, I was curious as to what kind of experiences you all have had with purchasing hardware off of Ebay and if you have any suggestions as to what to look out for. Thanks!

Okay cool I’ll take a look.

Hey that's actually pretty good. Thank you! Will add it to the list of options.

Yeah I get that, but i was going off of OP saying he only wanted file storage. plus most mobos these days have 4 ram slots so the OP could always buy another one of those kits to populate the other two slots to have 16 gigs. Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the 3000g have an IGPU? If it is, that will allow the OP to get it set up and then thrown in the closet to live. But you're right if the OP decides to go r3, a dedicated GPU will be needed. I appreciate you adding to my advice!

Hey all, So I'm looking for a case to put my NAS server in that will have at least 4 3.5 inch drive cages. I'm not too concerned with looks or size as it is the kind of thing that will live in my wiring closet. Preferably im looking for something under $100 dollars US but im willing to budge a little. The best option I've found so far is the Fractal Define R5 with its 8 drive cages but its a little over what I would like to spend. Thank you for any help!

Looks pretty good! One little tip, the cable coming of your heat sink fan can be tied in a loose knot so that you can hide it a little easier! Congrats man