Ok, final setup for my nas :
Dell Optiplex 390, i5 2500 + 4gb Ram, buying Saturday (100$)
network card (sadly not 10gigabit since I'd need 2.. at 100$/ea) + 5.25 bay adapter, delivered (40$)
2x 4tb WD blue, delivered (230$)
total cost : 370$ cad, tax in.
still under the cost of a decent QNAP w/ no drives 
I now have to shuffle the data around 
Edit : I foforgot, I'm swapping OS on my main machine from a 128gb ssd to my 1tb Mushkin reactor. I'm using the 128gb for FreeNAS
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Cool. I have a Synology NAS that I used to run my Plex server off, but due to it's lack of power (for transcoding) I switched over to using it as purely a NAS, with an always on old elitebook serving as the Plex server.
You could get a second nic and bind them, so the server-switch would be 2gbps, so no single device (1gbps) would be able to saturate it. Tho I think you'd need a 10gb switch for that to have such an effect.
Then again, given you're only running like raid1, your hdd speed will be the limiting factor even on a single gb connection anyway.
What are you planning on doing with it? Purely a NAS, or some server stuff too?
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For now, I only need a Nas
I plan to upgrade it to full server/Nas in the future, but that's still 2 ish years away.
Then I'd probably use my current 4790k + 16gb + 10gbe when I build myself a new machine
Although things are subject to change, I might build Everything in a mini rack and use a light client around the house / externally (w/ vnc or TeamViewer)
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Every drive tests as perfect in crystal disk info
Running in a RAIDZ3 array, about 8TB of usable space.
Literally the only thing I bought was the sata controller to add another 4 sata channels to the 9 already on the alienware motherboard.
Specs: Antec 1200
Xeon 5670
12GB of DDR3
12 assorted 1TB HDDs
16GB chromebook SSD for the OS
Alienware/XPS 1366 mobo
Random GPU
Some beefy ass 850w PSU
Ebay 4 port sata controller
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