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I was shopping around to upgrade my home storage. came across on a 2nd hand QNAP TS-419P but outbid and sold for $96, which to me - a nas novice its a amaizing deal. So i digged deeper on Nas devices. They are expensive so i am only looking for 2nd hand cheap ones. Pref 4 bay+, I found this Netgear RNDX4000 Readynas NVX  at $128. However i find it hard to check their maximum capacity for old models, is it limited by the motherboard bandwidth, or can they be changed by changing firmware. 

 

Somehow I found this HP StorageWorks X1600 AP790A SAS NAS selling at $230. its 12 bay and only this price?! I know its a server grade, high maintenance option, i.e no OS, no support, lots of setup and beyond my understanding. However, one can always learn. So is it a good deal??

 

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Looks like it is just an bay extension for a head unit. And it only supports SAS drives, which are "a little" more expensive than SATA.

 

If you want to hear about home options, feel free to ask.

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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13 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Looks like it is just an bay extension for a head unit. And it only supports SAS drives, which are "a little" more expensive than SATA.

 

If you want to hear about home options, feel free to ask.

http://www.hp.com/latam/mitos/Network_Attached_Storag.pdf

Maximum capacity 24 TB Raw Internal SATA 288 TB Raw External SATA 24 TB Raw Internal SAS Maximum configurations

 

what is raw internal/ external?

Is it really an expansion? What do i need to use it?

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23 minutes ago, pomkon said:

http://www.hp.com/latam/mitos/Network_Attached_Storag.pdf

Maximum capacity 24 TB Raw Internal SATA 288 TB Raw External SATA 24 TB Raw Internal SAS Maximum configurations

 

what is raw internal/ external?

Is it really an expansion? What do i need to use it?

Raw capacity is usually the capacity from the drive stickers. for example those 24 tb are in one enclosure, from those 24 tb are goging away the capacity of the raid redundancy, the filesystem etc so that you have for example 19 tb usable of those 24 tb left.

 

External is then usually meant with expansion bays, that can be hooked up to the storage head to expand the slots for drives.

 

If you really want to throw out big bucks for a HP storage works like the one you mentioned, you will need a 19" server rack to mount them in, and you will want a seperate room to place it in, because those things are noisy. Cooling must be good as well, because those sas drives put out some heat. And the drives are quite expensive compared to SATA NAS drives. 

 

Because that 1600 one is running windows server you just create shares like on a pc. 

 

I have to correct myself, the one you posted seems to be the Head unit with drive bays. So no expansion.

 

And the drives you put into that thing needs to come from HP, which adds to the costs. Usually when offered like that there are no drives included. 

 

I found one bare metal on ebay, no drives etc for 30 bucks. 

 

If you want a home storage server, and aren't happy with those NAS systems on the market like QNAP, DROBO, Synology etc, Build your own. There are some nice cases with hot swap bays from 4 bays upwards. There you can for example put in a cheap motherboard with lots of sata ports and raid option, put in an ssd for boot device with for example win 10, or even 7, then add your sata storage drives (I would use 4 as minimum in raid 5, which makes you losing a full drive for redundancy), if it is silent, make it your living room media center connected to the TV, and for the rest of the house the storage on network shares.

 

 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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24 TB Raw Internal SATA 

288 TB Raw External SATA

 

So why does say sata fromthe pdf? 

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15 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

Raw capacity is usually the capacity from the drive stickers. for example those 24 tb are in one enclosure, from those 24 tb are goging away the capacity of the raid redundancy, the filesystem etc so that you have for example 19 tb usable of those 24 tb left.

 

External is then usually meant with expansion bays, that can be hooked up to the storage head to expand the slots for drives.

 

If you really want to throw out big bucks for a HP storage works like the one you mentioned, you will need a 19" server rack to mount them in, and you will want a seperate room to place it in, because those things are noisy. Cooling must be good as well, because those sas drives put out some heat. And the drives are quite expensive compared to SATA NAS drives. 

 

Because that 1600 one is running windows server you just create shares like on a pc. 

 

I have to correct myself, the one you posted seems to be the Head unit with drive bays. So no expansion.

 

And the drives you put into that thing needs to come from HP, which adds to the costs. Usually when offered like that there are no drives included. 

 

I found one bare metal on ebay, no drives etc for 30 bucks. 

 

If you want a home storage server, and aren't happy with those NAS systems on the market like QNAP, DROBO, Synology etc, Build your own. There are some nice cases with hot swap bays from 4 bays upwards. There you can for example put in a cheap motherboard with lots of sata ports and raid option, put in an ssd for boot device with for example win 10, or even 7, then add your sata storage drives (I would use 4 as minimum in raid 5, which makes you losing a full drive for redundancy), if it is silent, make it your living room media center connected to the TV, and for the rest of the house the storage on network shares.

 

 

 

so what do u think of Netgear RNDX4000 Readynas NVX  at $128 ?? are old models still worth it?

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That one isn't bad. You could try it out. 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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3 hours ago, Anghammarad said:

That one isn't bad. You could try it out. 

thank you for the only 1 here. 

So if i want to build a diy nas with 4 drives (perhaps supporting 8 in the future), how much it would cost me excluding drives? perhaps upgrading my cheap router to ? and how would the specs differ if it was a diy server?

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1 minute ago, pomkon said:

thank you for the only 1 here. 

So if i want to build a diy nas with 4 drives (perhaps supporting 8 in the future), how much it would cost me excluding drives? perhaps upgrading my cheap router to ? and how would the specs differ if it was a diy server?

Those NAS devices (Netgear, Synology, QNAP etc) usually only have their embedded os on them. Which is a kind of linux.

 

Building an own NAS/Storage server with an actual intel/amd cpu gives you a more powerful base system on which a webserver, mediaserver, cloudservice, etc has a lot more performance. 

 

As for cost, pick a mainboard that has for example 8 Sata ports, I just got one form Asrock an Z87 board with an I5 (without K) and 16 gig ram. That bunch cost me around 400 € all together (A little less). I first wanted to go mini tix becauser there is a nice case which has several hotswap 3.5" bays and would fit into a cupboard. But due to the old media Server dying too early I got that z87 bunch. 

 

When you build from scratch you still need a decent case, power supply, if the IGPU from the Intel is enough no extra gfx card. So add 200 bucks for example for PSU and case. Then you total at around 600 bucks. All depending on offers you can get or deals. Then add the costs of drives you want to have. I would go for an SSD for the OS and programs, for files and storage then a raid 5 of a minimum of 4 sata disks.

 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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On 18/08/2017 at 0:09 AM, Anghammarad said:

Those NAS devices (Netgear, Synology, QNAP etc) usually only have their embedded os on them. Which is a kind of linux.

 

Building an own NAS/Storage server with an actual intel/amd cpu gives you a more powerful base system on which a webserver, mediaserver, cloudservice, etc has a lot more performance. 

 

As for cost, pick a mainboard that has for example 8 Sata ports, I just got one form Asrock an Z87 board with an I5 (without K) and 16 gig ram. That bunch cost me around 400 € all together (A little less). I first wanted to go mini tix becauser there is a nice case which has several hotswap 3.5" bays and would fit into a cupboard. But due to the old media Server dying too early I got that z87 bunch. 

 

When you build from scratch you still need a decent case, power supply, if the IGPU from the Intel is enough no extra gfx card. So add 200 bucks for example for PSU and case. Then you total at around 600 bucks. All depending on offers you can get or deals. Then add the costs of drives you want to have. I would go for an SSD for the OS and programs, for files and storage then a raid 5 of a minimum of 4 sata disks.

 

Do u have a raid card? there is a limited deal when i can get a used LSI 9750-8i  for  65usd, would u know anything?

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I will use the onboard raid controller. Earlier way earlier I had raid cards. 

 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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Just now, Anghammarad said:

I will use the onboard raid controller. Earlier way earlier I had raid cards. 

 

too complicated?

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Just now, pomkon said:

too complicated?

not really. but nowadays, if you can live without battery buffered cache for the controller, you can just use the current onboard raid controllers. Yes a dedicated card might have more performance, but as long as you don't scrub all the disks at full tilt 24/7 you really don't need one.

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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Just now, Anghammarad said:

not really. but nowadays, if you can live without battery buffered cache for the controller, you can just use the current onboard raid controllers. Yes a dedicated card might have more performance, but as long as you don't scrub all the disks at full tilt 24/7 you really don't need one.

i see. I was watching this @05:30   i think i will make a new post.

 

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13 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

 

so what do u think of a HBA card?

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4 minutes ago, pomkon said:

so what do u think of a HBA card?

I personally won't go that far for a private home server anymore.

 

The onboard raid functions of the mainboards are good enough and deliver smart values as well.

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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6 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

I personally won't go that far for a private home server anymore.

 

The onboard raid functions of the mainboards are good enough and deliver smart values as well.

but u have 8 hdd, the raid controller on 8 sata motherboards are good enough for light load servers?

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1 minute ago, pomkon said:

but u have 8 hdd, the raid controller on 8 sata motherboards are good enough for light load servers?

yes they are

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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9 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

yes they are

suppose i can get cheap used parts like asrock b75m, G2020 now, getting that HBA card is necessary? for the 4 sata b75m. Or wiser to buy a brand new motherboard?

If the g2020 is too slow, then i can replace it with my existing i5 3470?

 

or am i rushing?

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1 minute ago, pomkon said:

suppose i can get cheap used parts like asrock b75m, G2020 now, getting that HBA card is necessary? for the 4 sata b75m. Or wiser to buy a brand new motherboard?

If the g2020 is too slow, then i can replace it with my existing i5 3470?

 

or am i rushing?

This link is in german, so some google translate may be needed, but this is a nice cheap guide for a homebrew nas.

 

http://www.tomshardware.de/inter-tech-ipc-sc-4100-itx-gehause-nas,testberichte-242119.html

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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56 minutes ago, pomkon said:

suppose i can get cheap used parts like asrock b75m, G2020 now, getting that HBA card is necessary? for the 4 sata b75m. Or wiser to buy a brand new motherboard?

If the g2020 is too slow, then i can replace it with my existing i5 3470?

 

or am i rushing?

that is fine. the g2020 is fine. you will want a raid/hba card if you need more than 4 ports. I would use software raid 5 or 6. for OS use something like freenas or open media vault or rockstor

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"Stupidity is like trying to find a limit of a constant. You are never truly smart in something, just less stupid."

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