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Best Rackmount NAS for $150

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I've been searching around on eBay for a budget NAS. I have spent hours narrowing down, but there are so many different options to choose from! I am going to use UNRAID as the OS, and am looking for half-decent performance. This NAS will be used for backups mostly. I already have 2x 1TB 7200rpm drives, 1x 500GB 7200rpm drive, and 1x 240GB SATA SSD. I am looking for something within a total budget of $150. I definitely don't want to purchase hardware that is too old, because upgrading BIOS' on old Servers is a nightmare. This is going to be my first real NAS, so 4 external bays with 1 internal would be totally fine to start. I am trying to stay away from anything under 6 cores, and under 16GB RAM. Thank you for any help.

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You could get something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-3-5-SERVER-2x-E5506-QC-8-Cores-12GB-RAM-NO-HDD-Perc6i/223805872517

You'll just need to get some additional drive caddys for the other 4 slots. 

 

Otherwise if you want something smaller, probably have to look at X58 boards + Xeon 5500/5600 CPU's such as these:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GigaByte-Combo-GA-X58A-UD3R-Rev2-X5650-6C-2-66Ghz-LGA1366-4x-PCIE-x16-SATA3-6G/333450290477

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-COMBO-P6T-X5650-6C-12HT-2-66Ghz-X58-LGA1366-3x-PCIE-x16-NO-IO-Shield/233440389810

and then you could get a rackmount case like a Rosewill, + a PSU. It'd maybe come to more like about $170ish by the time you do all that, and would be internal drives for that price point. 

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I have an R710 server as my backup/lab server running unRAID with no problems but keep in mind they are enterprise servers so they are loud stay away from U1 servers as they are stupid loud due to their fan size you will also need an HBA flashed to IT mode to pass the drives through to unRAID

My daily driver: The Wrath of Red: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen TR4 1950x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA621P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASRock x399 Taichi / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / Samsung 512GB 970 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor x3

 

My technology Rig: The wizard: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen R7 1800x 3.95MHz / Corsair H110i / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASUS CH 6 / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / 512GB 960 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor HP Monitor

 

My I don't use Rig: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen 1600x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA620P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / MSI x370 Gaming Pro Carbon / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / Samsung PM961 256GB M.2 PCIe Internal SSD / EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SSC GAMING / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor

 

My NAS: The storage miser: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / CPU Intel i7 6700 / Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500 Watt 80 Plus / ASUS Maximus viii Hero / 32GB Gskill RipJaw DDR4 3200Mhz / HP Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual SFP+ Ported Ethernet HCA NIC / 9 Drives total 29TB - 1 4TB seagate parity - 7 4TB WD Red data - 1 1TB laptop drive data - and 2 240GB Sandisk SSD's cache / Headless

 

Why did I buy this server: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / Dell R710 enterprise server with dual xeon E5530 / 48GB ecc ddr3 / Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA w/ LSI 9211-8i P20 IT / 4 450GB sas drives / headless

 

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On 12/24/2019 at 11:31 PM, Jarsky said:

You could get something like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-R710-3-5-SERVER-2x-E5506-QC-8-Cores-12GB-RAM-NO-HDD-Perc6i/223805872517

You'll just need to get some additional drive caddys for the other 4 slots. 

 

Otherwise if you want something smaller, probably have to look at X58 boards + Xeon 5500/5600 CPU's such as these:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GigaByte-Combo-GA-X58A-UD3R-Rev2-X5650-6C-2-66Ghz-LGA1366-4x-PCIE-x16-SATA3-6G/333450290477

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-COMBO-P6T-X5650-6C-12HT-2-66Ghz-X58-LGA1366-3x-PCIE-x16-NO-IO-Shield/233440389810

and then you could get a rackmount case like a Rosewill, + a PSU. It'd maybe come to more like about $170ish by the time you do all that, and would be internal drives for that price point. 

 

On 12/25/2019 at 8:06 AM, mrbilky said:

I have an R710 server as my backup/lab server running unRAID with no problems but keep in mind they are enterprise servers so they are loud stay away from U1 servers as they are stupid loud due to their fan size you will also need an HBA flashed to IT mode to pass the drives through to unRAID

Ok, thanks for the advice!

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