DIY NAS brend new or from my old PC

[KinKin Qc]

Hi,

 

 

I'm kind of new on this, but I want to build a NAS to store my important files such as photos, documents, videos...

Need to have:

• Redundancy so I won't lose data
• 1 Gigabit LAN card (I have 100mbit and 1Gbit lan in the house)

 

Nice to have:

• A WM to run Linux like LUbuntu (1gig of ram is plenty for it)
• Maybe a Plex or a DLNA server
• new Gaming rig (my old Gaming rig that I will give to my son, Gforce 760 TI, 12gig of ram, 320gb SSD, i5-2500)

 

 

List of the hardware I have in the old PC:

• ASUS P5B boar https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Motherboards/P5B/overview/
  • it as 6 SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
  • Gigabit LAN
  • 1 x PCI-E x16
  • 3 x PCI-E x1
  • 3 x PCI 2.2
• CPU Intel Core2 6600 @ 2.GHz https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/27250/intel-core-2-duo-processor-e6600-4m-cache-2-40-ghz-1066-mhz-fsb.html
• 4 x 1 gb of ram
• Antec P180 case https://www.amazon.ca/Antec-P180-Aluminum-Advanced-Super/dp/B0009PD3SW
  • External 4 x 5.25"; 1 x 3.5"
  • Internal 6 x 3.5" for HDD
• PSU: Seasonic 550w ATX Active PFC F3 https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-s12-energy-plus-ss-550ht-550w/p/N82E16817151027
• Other device in it
  • old HDD 320GB
  • card reader
  • DVD rom

I have a budjet of around 2000$ canadian $ and I would like to get a new gaming computer with that budget too.

 

Here is my plan A:

for +-800$ use the old computer and add two PCIE x1 4 connector SATA 6GB controler at 40$ each or one PCIE x1 8 connectors SATA 6GB controler at 115$ with 6 HDD WD RED 3TB NAS at 109$ or 6HDD WD RED 4TB NAS at 119$ (can I put green or blue WD in the NAS since its only a home NAS for 2-3 devices) with freeNAS or Unraid install on the old HDD 320GB

 

and for +-1300$ buy a new Gaming rig (inspired by the 900 US$ build), I already have 3 monitor, mouse, keyboard and speaker:

• MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX Motherboard (135$)
• MSI GeForce RTX 2060 VENTUS 6G OC Video Card (489$)
• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 239$
• Team T-Force Delta RGB White 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3000MHz CL16 Memory Kit (TF4D432G3000HC16CDC01) 194$
• CORSAIR CARBIDE SPEC-05 55$
• EVGA 700 GD, 80+ Gold 700W 115$
• Lexar NM610 M.2 2280 NVMe 500GB Read :2100MB/s , Write 1600MB/s Solid-State Drive (LNM600-500RBNA) 73$ (realy not sure if its a good choice)

 

OR Plan B for +- 1100$

Base on DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2019 (415$ without HDD and 654$ or 714$ for the HDD) only build a new NAS for scratch and wait for the Gamming RIG

• ASUS PRIME B450M-A/CSM Socket AM4 Dual Channel DDR4 PCIe 3.0, M.2 USB 3.1, HDMI, DVI, VGA, RGB mATX Motherboard 105$
• AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 4-Core/4-Thread Processor with Radeon VEGA 8 Graphics Socket AM4, 3.5 GHz Base/ 3.7 GHz Boost, 14nm, 65W 110$
• G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz CL15 Dual Channel Memory Kit 1.35V (F4-3000C15D-16GRBB) 70$
• 2 x SanDisk Ultra Flair 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive, Up to 150 MB/s Read (SDCZ73-032G-G46) 11$ each
• Thermaltake Smart White 500W 80 PLUS Certified Power Supply (PS-SPD-0500NPCWUS-W) 45$
• Antec NSK4100 Case 63$
• 6 HDD WD RED 3TB NAS at 109$ or 6HDD WD RED 4TB NAS at 119$

 

Should I go with plan A or B or if you guys have some ideal for a plan C

 

Thanks in advance for all your advice.

[Bombastinator]

To attempt to summarize to see if I got the basics here:

So you save ~200 by building a nas out of your old rig for(?man hours) running Linux (got any experience with that?) which you will then drop on a gaming rig to give it some more zip.

or

you just buy a nas and have less money for the gaming rig and give the old machine to your kid.

 

The NAS sounds like a hobby project.  Would you enjoy doing it?

 

[KinKin Qc]

Yes that summarize it, and yes I have a little bit of experience with Linux but not with raid/zfs nas stuff.

 

Need a NAS and if possible get a new Gamming Rig for my self so I can give my old one to the kid.

So the kid will have a Gaming computer and I will have one.

NAS as a Project, yup.  I was going to install Unraid do some testing and FreeNAS and after that choose the best one.  Unless I go with a QNAP or synologysy or Asustor.

[Windows7ge]

21 hours ago, KinKin Qc said:

Yes that summarize it, and yes I have a little bit of experience with Linux but not with raid/zfs nas stuff.

 

Need a NAS and if possible get a new Gamming Rig for my self so I can give my old one to the kid.

So the kid will have a Gaming computer and I will have one.

NAS as a Project, yup.  I was going to install Unraid do some testing and FreeNAS and after that choose the best one.  Unless I go with a QNAP or synologysy or Asustor.

It's not that hard. I have a couple guides on both.

 

I'll just make some notes that it's not recommended to run FreeNAS in a VM. If it's just to toy around with go ahead but I wouldn't pour your important documents into it unless it's running native. However if you want to play with Virtual Machines I wouldn't recommend FreeNAS. It uses Bhyve as a hypervisor and it's terrible. Better off looking into PROXMOX or Debian+QEMU.

[KinKin Qc]

Is a Asus P5B with 4gb of ram and a Intel Core2 6600 powerfull enough to run freeNAS with 6 HDD 3TB in zFS2?

[dieserkai]

If you are going to upgrade to 10g in future: make sure to have have enough PCIe x8 slots and lanes available.

also: if you buy a Razen 3600 CPU: buy a x570 mainboard and not a b450.

[Bombastinator]

19 hours ago, KinKin Qc said:

Is a Asus P5B with 4gb of ram and a Intel Core2 6600 powerfull enough to run freeNAS with 6 HDD 3TB in zFS2?

Would it help if I said I know people who run freeNas on beagle bones (or maybe only Pi’s? I dunno)?  I don’t know how WELL it runs but they do it.

Edited December 28, 2019 by Bombastinator
Qualification added

[Windows7ge]

19 hours ago, KinKin Qc said:

Is a Asus P5B with 4gb of ram and a Intel Core2 6600 powerfull enough to run freeNAS with 6 HDD 3TB in zFS2?

If all you want it to do is be a bare, basic SMB or NFS network share with or without SSH/SFTP it should be enough for one or two clients.

 

If you start having people stream videos off of it, PLEX, a minecraft server, deduplication, snapshots, etc. You will want more RAM (8GB+) and I would advise a quad-core at least.

[KinKin Qc]

Hi,

 

Sorry for the delay I was outside of town, but I went with plan B (CPU + RAM + HDD with 2 kingston DataTraveler Micro USB 3.1 32GB).