Best NAS OS + Case

[greenkey]

I have built a nas in a Fujitsu P2560 case and using the orginal 250w power supply but have replaced it with a intel DQ45CB motherboard, a Intel xeon X3320, 8GB of DDR2 RAM and a 120GB ssd aswell as 4 4TB WD Reds.

I want to run Pi-hole it as a nas storage server aswell as be able to run a 2 or 3 vm's for Pi-hole and various other programs.

Does anyone have any recomendations on a NAS OS which i can run on it. I have tried FreeNas but it will only start once and then will go into error mode on reboot. 

It also needs to be cheap (Less than £15) or free as I do not have much money to spend on the OS and got the drives for free.

Also does anyone have any recommendations for a case. It is a ATX power supply with a Micro ATX main board. Only needs to hold 4 3,5" drives and 1 2.5" and needs to be less than £50 (85 CAD, 65 USD)

Thanks for any answers provided.

 

Update: I have purchased a cheap case i got for £15 so am going to give it a try and send it back if it is no good:

[leadeater]

You could try NAS4Free (seems to be called XigmaNAS now), run Native FreeBSD or Linux and manage ZFS through CLI, or give XPenology a try (this is the Synology OS/software used on Synology NAS's).

 

For the case Rosewill has some of the cheapest I know of that can hold more than 2 or 3 HDDs, Silverstone also has come nice small form factor NAS cases but they are a little more expenseive and the same goes for Norco.

[greenkey]

13 minutes ago, leadeater said:

You could try NAS4Free (seems to be called XigmaNAS now), run Native FreeBSD or Linux and manage ZFS through CLI, or give XPenology a try (this is the Synology OS/software used on Synology NAS's).

 

For the case Rosewill has some of the cheapest I know of that can hold more than 2 or 3 HDDs, Silverstone also has come nice small form factor NAS cases but they are a little more expenseive and the same goes for Norco.

Thanks for your reply I will have a loot at them case's. So you know how you get the xigma nas onto a USB as rifus won't except the ISO and when I load the img file with win32diskimg it won't boot from it

[leadeater]

16 minutes ago, greenkey said:

So you know how you get the xigma nas onto a USB as rifus won't except the ISO and when I load the img file with win32diskimg it won't boot from it

Not sure it's been far too long, many years, since I've used it. Maybe try their forum if they have one?

[greenkey]

13 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Not sure it's been far too long, many years, since I've used it. Maybe try their forum if they have one?

OK I will have another look on there

[greenkey]

18 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Not sure it's been far too long, many years, since I've used it. Maybe try their forum if they have one?

I've just had a look at the rosewill cases but are they only avalible in the US? When I search they all have to be imported 

[leadeater]

16 minutes ago, greenkey said:

I've just had a look at the rosewill cases but are they only avalible in the US? When I search they all have to be imported 

Probably, if I were to buy them I'd do it through Amazon as they make the shipping and importing easy. I actually found them through searching for cases on amazon.

 

Edit:

I'm in NZ so I'm resigned to the fact I have to import/international ship anything even slightly non standard.

[greenkey]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

Probably, if I were to buy them I'd do it through Amazon as they make the shipping and importing easy. I actually found them through searching for cases on amazon.

  

Edit:

I'm in NZ so I'm resigned to the fact I have to import/international ship anything even slightly non standard.

I've just found a case on promotion for £15. Its a BitFenix Nova computer case don't know if it is any good if not going to go with the rosewill and pay the £30.00 import. I am trying nas4free again now it looks ideal will update this thread once ive figured it out lol.

[tryingmybest]

2 hours ago, greenkey said:

Thanks for your reply I will have a loot at them case's. So you know how you get the xigma nas onto a USB as rifus won't except the ISO and when I load the img file with win32diskimg it won't boot from it

Do you have access to a Linux machine? Because you could try:

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dd bs=4M if=/path/to/your.iso of={your usb in ‘/dev/’} status=progress && sync

You could also try Linux and install the software itself. Get a lightweight one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight_Linux_distribution#Comparison).

 

Then install the necessary tools ⚒.

[greenkey]

3 minutes ago, tryingmybest said:

Do you have access to a Linux machine? Because you could try:

You could also try Linux and install the software itself. Get a lightweight one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight_Linux_distribution#Comparison).

 

Then install the necessary tools ⚒.

I have gone on the forums like you sugested and am following the guides on there if not i will try what you said as i am sure that will work

[greenkey]

1 hour ago, leadeater said:

Probably, if I were to buy them I'd do it through Amazon as they make the shipping and importing easy. I actually found them through searching for cases on amazon.

 

Edit:

I'm in NZ so I'm resigned to the fact I have to import/international ship anything even slightly non standard.

Would you install it on a usb or SSD. I have a ssd for it and i have bought a internal usb header so either works for me just wondering which you think is better as i'm not used to nas i normarly run cent os lol.

[greenkey]

I have tried Nas4Free and it works perfect booted on a usb of on a ssd. One thing i was wondering is how does virtulization work?

[leadeater]

15 hours ago, greenkey said:

I have tried Nas4Free and it works perfect booted on a usb of on a ssd. One thing i was wondering is how does virtulization work?

Oh, forgot you needed that. Not sure NAS4Free can do that, XPenology can though.

[greenkey]

Just now, leadeater said:

Oh, forgot you needed that. Not sure NAS4Free can do that, XPenology can though.

ok,

do you have any idea on good nas hardware as this one seems to be broken now which is good. need a cheap motherboard and proccessor but have got the rest