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[Guerdic]

Hello,

 

I'm looking at building myself a home nas build in the Fractal Node 304 Mini ITX Case. My reason for using this case is due to its 6 x 3.5" bays capable in such a small case, its amazing. Look I think it would be a good start but when it goes to CPU, MOBO and RAM, I'm clueless as a what I'm looking for but I've seen the i3 8100 to be a popular choice, but I'm unsure on what else I'm looking at doing. I was also thinking of using a raid card to have 5 drives and then 1 ssd for my boot drive. Would be great for some input if possible.

 

Thanks
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[Sevilla]

The question I’d have is if you’ve already decided on what OS you’re going to use? Depending on that it’s easier to make some advice.

[Guerdic]

Well, probably try windows server 12

[NelizMastr]

1 hour ago, Guerdic said:

Well, probably try windows server 12

Why Windows Server? If file sharing is all you need, Windows 10 Pro will suffice. Or even go dedicated NAS OS like FreeNAS.

[Olaf6541]

22 hours ago, Guerdic said:

was also thinking of using a raid card to have 5 drives and then 1 ssd for my boot drive.

Another option is to buy an itx board with 6 onboard sata ports. They are not cheap but maybe cheaper than a itx board + raidcard. As for cpu and ram: you dont need much for just filestorage, even recent i3's are overkill unless youre planning on using transcoding with plex or something else cpu intensive.

[Thirdgen89GTA]

The real question is what are you going to do with this?  Just file shares?  If so, you don't need a big CPU, nor do you need much ram.

 

The hardware that gets recommended depends on what you want to do with it.