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Budget (including currency): Less than $1000 with HDD included Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Jelly Fin, Immich/PhotoPrism, VMs, Few docker containers, tailscale, Storing other data, etc. Want to use TrueNas Scale Hi all, I'm trying to build my first NAS/Home Server (I want to use it for both). I've been researching, but I'm confused about what to go with. I don't want a beast of a system nor a weak one. I've seen a lot of videos with Erying motherboards, but I'm not sure if that's suitable for a NAS. I want to be able to build it fully like a PC where I can replace anything. I'm looking to go with 2 16TB drives for now with redundancy. I do like Jonsbo N2 case but if its harder to build I'm okay with changing that idea. Any help with the selection of the parts would be much appreciated.

Budget (including currency): aprox. DKK 18000 Country: Denmark Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: NAS, Virtualization, video encoding. Other details Hi All We are two creators and in need of a data storage solution that will give us more storage space so that it will at leas be a while before we grow out of it. The plan is to create two identical machines that will back up to each other over fiber internet. I am now planning how this should look, and I hope to get some good feedback on my thoughts and also let me know if it is completely stupid to do it like I imagine Besides just providing storage, it would come in handy to be able to run Home assistant and other relatively light services, but also be able to spin up machines with blender, davinci resolve to offload rendering from our main machines. This is however next step and will require a dedicated GPU that we can add later, if we feel the need. Besides this, it must be low power and have room for adding a GPU at a later date. Software wise I am still not completely settled in, but is currently leaning towards running proxmox and virtualize everything else, including truenas scale. So far I have compiled the following list of components, centered around the i5-13500. With one parity drive, the main storage would give us 54GB of usable space, which would give us plenty of space for the foreseeable future. I added a boot SSD and a working drive. I plan on setting it up with automatic archiving to the RAID. The machines will then sync their archive over the internet at night. PCPartPicker Part List: https://dk.pcpartpicker.com/list/hybHJy CPU: Intel Core i5-13500 2.5 GHz 14-Core Processor (2036.00kr @ Føniks Computer) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D9L chromax.black 46.44 CFM CPU Cooler (668.00kr @ Alternate) Motherboard: MSI MAG B760M MORTAR MAX WIFI Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (1760.00kr @ Føniks Computer) Memory: Corsair Vengeance 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-5600 CL40 Memory (1419.00kr @ Proshop) Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (838.00kr @ Proshop) Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (1296.00kr @ Proshop) Storage: Seagate Exos X18 18 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (2231.00kr @ Føniks Computer) Storage: Seagate Exos X18 18 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (2231.00kr @ Føniks Computer) Storage: Seagate Exos X18 18 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (2231.00kr @ Føniks Computer) Storage: Seagate Exos X18 18 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive (2231.00kr @ Føniks Computer) Case: Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 TT Premium 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (898.00kr @ Alternate) Total: 17839.00kr Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-01-13 13:46 CET+0100 Thanks in advance Sune EDIT: swapped the 13500 for 14600K for the built-in AV1 encoding.

Budget (including currency): not planning to buy any more hardware at this time, already at 450€ into this Country: France Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly a file storage server but planning on testing features to learn on them such as docker containers among other things Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): not supposed to have peripherals but most likely will at first, for a long while, til I do everything remotely eventually Hi there people ! I'm fairly new around here, been looking around and found this category so I thought I'd share my first tinker project in there ! I'm a french IT student, been so for 6 months but following tech news and learning bits from about everywhere for years now. I've thought of starting some kind of project on my own and thought that solving my latent data capacity issue while learning stuff would be cool and fun ! So far it's been, I've got 90% of the hardware at this point in time, looking around what to do for the software part and thinking of the objectives of this project so I pulled all the stops, dumped a fair amount of cash in storage capacity and unearthed an old workstation I wasn't using. I've thought that I'd make something simple then decided that I wouldn't have it that way, otherwise I'd just let it rot on the side after making the simplest NAS build possible just by following a tutorial off youtube. So I took on the "challenge" of making a linux based server (which I've never actually used before beyond installing GLPI once) with RAID setup'd drives (which I've never handled before either) and thus ended up picking TrueNAS as my weapon of choice ! This way, from what I've read, I can also put many other functionalities, plug-ins, modules and learn while setting up and using them ! I also learned that ZFS and RAID-Z were a thing ! So much to learn, so much to do, so many things I can fail, yay ! Oh well, I've made this infographic of the current revision of my project, the hardware isn't assembled just yet and while I'm waiting on my last couple parcels, I'll be learning some more stuff about the software I plan to use and what to look out for. Feel free to comment on my project and giving out advice, I've opened this thread for that ! Til next time, Geek over and out

Budget (including currency): $1000 USD (not including drives) Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I would be using UNRAID or TrueNAS scale Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B550-I Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair RMx 550 W Wired Network Adapter: Intel E1G44HTBLK PCIe x4 1 Gbit/s $928.94 total PC partpicker list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MtPMZw Any recommendations would be welcome!

Hello guys, first time posting here! Motivated by a recent video from LTT, "Your Old PC is Your New Server", I decided to take a look at my older brother's old PC and see if there is any chance transforming it from a mid-tier 2005 PC to a "modern day" NAS. The specs are the following: COLORSit EN60950 450W PSU (link here, this is listed as a 350W PSU but mine it's 480W, it's an old PSU from a discontinued Italian brand); ASUS P5LD2-X motherboard with LGA775 Intel socket, 2 slots for 4GB max supported RAM, 1 x PCI Express x16, 2 x PCI Express x1, 3 x PCI (link here); ASUS EAH2400PRO GDDR2 graphics card (link here); 2 x Kingston KVR667D2N5/1G 1G DIMM DDR2 667MHz RAM sticks (link here). What's missing is storage (I have yet to buy the HDDs) and a CPU. This is an old pre-assembled PC from a small local computer shop in Italy in a Philips case, so the old CPU (which is now missing) came with a Intel D60188-001 stock cooler (link here). The main idea with this conversion is to create a private NAS to host a Plex Server and store personal files. I don't need it to well host multiple VMs at once, a webpage or gaming server, just stream media entertainment through local display or remote transcoding. I've read from the official Plex website that the suggested CPU for a Plex Server should get a 2000+ PassMark to be able to transcode a single 1080 10Mbps H.264 file. This fits well enough for me so I've dug through available CPU compatible with the MB's LGA775 socket and I've found what I think is the best suiting for this situation: this Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 @ 2.66GHz strikes a ~2.050 PassMark and goes for ~€16 on Ebay. I could get a slightly better performing one like the Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 @ 3.00GHz which strikes a ~2.390 Pass Mark and goes for €58,55 on Ebay, by the same seller as the above CPU, but I don't know if it's worth the extra on the limited LGA775 socket type. I also need to figure out the best HDD with the current motherboard ports. I've got what I think are 7 x 3,5" HDD-compatible slots, with one populated by a floppy disk reader, (first attached photo, sorry for the red-stained ruler) and 4 other slots (second attached photo) with one populated by a DVD reader (I know there are adapters on Amazon, named Caddy's(?), so that DVD readers slots can be populated by 3,5" HDDs). That said, I will probably buy first-hand 7,200 RPM 2/4/8/12 or 16 TB NAS HDDs. However, I only have 4 SATA slots (third attached photo, with one cable remaining un-connected to anything in the case). Adding all the costs, ~€16 for the CPU and the ~€100 for this IronWolf 4TB 7,200 RPM NAS HDD (for starting), it will be ~€116 for the first 4TB and ~€100 for every new HDD. So, my question now are: Should I got for the Intel Quad Q9400 or the Q9650? Are both the CPUs enough for a Plex Server with remote streaming capabilities? Can I keep using the stock Intel D60188-001 cooler for both those CPUs or should I switch for a better one? Do I need to swap the 2 x 1GB Kington RAM sticks for something better? What HDDs would you suggest me? How do I know which SATA ports are SATA I, SATA II or SATA III types to get the best speed and to match the least expense on HDD purchase by compatability (black ones SATA II 3Gb/s and red one SATA III 6Gb/s?)? Can I mount a fifth HDD using the current "HDD Cable" coming from the MB and going to the DVD reader (fourth attached photo)? Is the IronWolf 4TB NAS HDD linked above a good choice or should I opt for a 5,000 RPM one, or a second-handed one or a less, or more, capacity drive? I've checked the Wattage with multiple calculators including all componentsI should be safe; however, do you think I still should switch for a different PSU? Are all of these efforts worth the costs or should I save some money until I have enough for a more performant and more future-proof NAS? Thanks everybody who will take the time to read all of this! (Mind that I'm really new to PC building, in therms of knowledge cause I've never built a PC lol, and that English is not my mother tongue) I'm here waiting for the suggestions, critiques and discussions!

I have been a front-end developer / UI-UX developer for approx 15 years. Over the years I have lost countless projects / designs that would be very, very valuable in my portfolio (and I am now currently looking for a new job) lost to new pc builds, discarded / lost / failed harddrives or not having a good backup policy. About four months ago I started looking into a DIY NAS build as the harddrives on my pc started to fill and the two external drives I use started showing warning signals on monitoring software. When I started I was only thinking NAS and had planned on using a RAID PCe hardware card. Between then and when I started ordering my hardware, I have decided I want a home server / lab that I can run and test my projects (web server / virtualization), file server and NAS. My hardware has either already arrived or is on it's way and I'm now concerned that my hardware my be under powered for what I want to do. The main advice I'm looking for is: What server / os and app setup do I need for my goals: NAS / RAID setup (I would like to run RAID 10) File / media sharing (Plex) Server (web server, database server, virtualization and/or container) This is my hardware: Motherboard: ASRock H370M-ITX/ac (the mobo and intel H370 chipset have built-in RAID functionality) CPU: Intel Core i3-8350K RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2400 2x16gb (32gb) non-ECC Boot Drive: WD Blue SN550 NVMe M.2 HDD's: 4 x Toshiba NAS 4TB Case: Fractal Node 304 I am currently leaning towards Ubuntu Server with a mix of VM/Docker and built in RAID functionality of Ubunto/Mobo/chipset. Your recommendations are much appreciated. I realize I may want to do too much with the hardware I have, which will mean I will either have to scale back my goals or upgrade the hardware I've already ordered.

Budget & Location: My budget is flexible but I’d like to spend around $600 for the case and maybe $200-$250 for a single 12TB HDD or two smaller HDD’s with the idea being that I’ll purchase more drives later on. I live up in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Aim: I want this build to be mainly for backups and storing anything and everything I might need. For reference, I’m a digital artist who would like to stream and make videos as well. I’m also dabbling in Game Design/Development (mainly 2D games right now) and 3D modeling. I’d like to be able to backup all these things down the road but for right now, I only really need to worry about backing up small art files and a few miscellaneous files here and there. Monitors & Peripherals: Already have what I need. Why are you upgrading? I don’t have a NAS and would like one. That’s about it for the reasoning, haha! With that all out of the way, here is the build I hope to do and the reasoning behind some of my choices. PcPartPicker List:https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fJN6Kp I couldn’t add this part to the list but I am also adding an IO Crest M.2 to SATA III expansion card for two more sata ports I'm planning on using TrueNAS for my OS. I originally copied LTT’s Jonsbo N1 NAS build. After realizing that shipping costs for the case were the same amount as the case itself, I dug into the forum for the video to see what people were saying for alternatives and settled on the Fractal Design Node 304. I went with the i3-12100 since it has integrated graphics and I don’t want to deal with what LTT had to in the video. I’m iffy on the power supply and wonder if I should just bite the bullet and buy a higher end 80+ Titanium rated PSU since this is going to be running 24/7. Now, for the storage, I put all those drives in the list because I have a few questions about them. Is WD Red better for NAS storage than Seagate IronWolf or Exos? If Exos is better, what does the X14, X16, and X18 mean? I saw some forums saying that WD and Seagate were comparable but I couldn’t find a concrete answer as to what the X14 stuff meant. Regardless, I am only going to go with one 12TB or two smaller drives to start with. Also, input on how to setup TrueNAS would be great as I basically have no idea what I'm doing with regards to the software and raids. Many Thanks, Noa “Sky” Meisenheimer

Hi, I'm starting in the world of storage and I have a new project assigned to me as part of my training. The applications on the NAS will be: 8 VM 1 DNS 1 DHCP 2 web servers I want to know if there is a relationship between CPU processing and storage. Is there a mathematical formula or any other way to calculate what I need in a CPU? I would appreciate any guidance and advice you can give me.

Hi There, I'm thinking into building a NAS for my home archive (mostly pictures, videos, etc) for around 300-400€ (under 430$) with at least 6TB capacity and single redundancy drive. Pretty tight budget, i know. OS whise I looked into FreeNAS and OVM, but since I'd like to increase stroage size easily I turned to unRAID, so that I can chuck in one or two additional (maybe high capacity) drives later one. So for the system I've been thinking about an AM4 Motherboard (B450M or A320M) and some lowend Ryzen 3rd Gen or even AMD Athlon and 8GB RAM. (around 150$ + PSU, case) Questions: - what HDDs should I use? I thouhgt about 2x4GB in RAID1 or 3X3GB or 4x2GB with single parity drive each. The later two seem more resonable to me though, since I'm only getting 4TB out of the first config. - Is the systrem spec reasonable or would you suggest somethiong else? Idealy I would like to have room for a OpenVPN Server as well (so can connect from my mobile). RAM should be upgradable. - any case recommendations with >=4x3,5" Drive Bays? Should be somewhat small Note: Due to the budget I also looked into an RPi4-based NAS, which would be limmeted by USB3 and to a maximum of 4 drives... Thanks in advance!

So I'm planning on building a new rig soon. My current one has well outlasted its use. I'm planning to turn my current rig into a home nas/media server. So big question/seeking guidance. Would it be worth it to undervolt my fx8320(for less heat and less power usage), or use an fx6300 i have laying around as the cpu since it already has a lower TDP? and I know I don't have to do either but, having the 8320 on and drawing power 24/7 in a nas im worried im going to have a big increase in KW used per month

Good Morning There, I looking at a case for a NAS build, but I want to be able to fit a lot of drives so I can maximize storage space, but also looking at something that looks fairly nice. But I'm open to other option. kind regards.

Hallo, ebay india has quite a few refurbished xeons available. I want to build a cheap home nas. are refurbished xeons worth buying. Basically I want to know what are refurbished xeons? I have heard of refurbished iphone, computers, gaming consoles, but , what the heck is a refurbished xeon?? . . . . . . i5 6600k asrock z170 extreme4 16gigs ddr4 msi gtx970 256gigs samsumng evo ssg 2* 1 tb wd hdd raid 1 seasonic m12ii 750w lg 24gm77

Hello! I will be re-using my verry old PC and re-purposing it as a Home NAS, I had posted a thread regarding that, and one of the suggestions from @Aristotelian was that I should upgrade my PSU. My case is a standard ATX case. Motherboard: Intel Desktop Board D101GGC. Link 1 Link 2 (For link 2 Start from page 10) I will most probably be using seagate barracuda drives (2x1TB, 3 or 4 drives at MAX) Pls recommend a optimum PSU for this build, I'm okay with noise, i will like to get it from a well known brand like: SeaSonic, Corsair. (I have been eyeing the Corsair CX430w) Also would like to keep the budget as low as you can. Thanks. Blaze