First NAS setup

[Hutch.]

I'm looking at building my first NAS/home server. I am looking at combining some of the following:

- Media server (est. current max of 4 users at once)

- VPN

- Data backup

 

I have considered the Synology 4 bay DS418 but am currently leaning towards building my own as i'd like to learn a few things about the area and have greater flexibility to update/upgrade in the future.

The components I'm currently thinking of are below. Please let me know if the selected items would work for my application or if there are better alternatives out there.

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Gaming X

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB kit DDR4-2666

Case: Antec P101 Silent

Power supply: Thermaltake 550W LitePower Gen 2

Storage: Seagate IronWolf's between 4&10TB

 

Thanks in advance.

[Master Disaster]

2 hours ago, Hutch. said:

I'm looking at building my first NAS/home server. I am looking at combining some of the following:

- Media server (est. current max of 4 users at once)

- VPN

- Data backup

 

I have considered the Synology 4 bay DS418 but am currently leaning towards building my own as i'd like to learn a few things about the area and have greater flexibility to update/upgrade in the future.

The components I'm currently thinking of are below. Please let me know if the selected items would work for my application or if there are better alternatives out there.

 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

Motherboard: Gigabyte B450 Gaming X

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB kit DDR4-2666

Case: Antec P101 Silent

Power supply: Thermaltake 550W LitePower Gen 2

Storage: Seagate IronWolf's between 4&10TB

 

Thanks in advance.

Doing it this way would give you more flexibility for sure however its also much more complex to setup initially. One of the major plus points to a Synology & DSM is how easy everything is to setup.

 

What OS do you plan on running?

[Hutch.]

23 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Doing it this way would give you more flexibility for sure however its also much more complex to setup initially. One of the major plus points to a Synology & DSM is how easy everything is to setup.

 

What OS do you plan on running?

At this stage im leaning towards running unraid and will be utilising things like plex, radarr, sonarr, nextcloud & deluge

I'm looking into the need to add an SSD for cache storage. Would you have any recommendations here.