Home Build NAS

[JoshuaRossChristie]

Soo I'm thinking of building a NAS out of my old PC. It's a MSI B85M-G43 with a Intel Pentium G-3258, and 8GB of Ram will it work well enough for transferring files for video editing? and second question anyone have any suggestions of extra hardware I need in order to build this rig for raid 5? Suggestions would be appreciated.

[Radium_Angel]

14 minutes ago, JoshuaRossChristie said:

extra hardware

Matching hard drives of course.

 

[Senzelian]

This will be more than just fine for transfering files.

You don't need any additional hardware really. Just a few drives, which have to be securely mounted within a chassis, as they will be running 24/7.

 

For RAID 5 you will of course need at least 3 drives, but I don't necessarily recommend a RAID 5 anyway. Either a RAID 1 or one of FreeNAS' ZFS filesystems will do just fine, if not better.

[JoshuaRossChristie]

And a SSD or not for running it off of?

[Electronics Wizardy]

30 minutes ago, JoshuaRossChristie said:

And a SSD or not for running it off of?

what os are you running? This depends a lot on the os choice.

[Ja Krispie]

4 hours ago, JoshuaRossChristie said:

And a SSD or not for running it off of?

If you're running something like FreeNAS or uNRAID it used a thumbdrive for the OS. You can use a SSD as a cache drive though

[JoshuaRossChristie]

A thumb drive to boot off of? or run off of? FreeNAS ZFS is likely gonna be what I want to install. You can probably tell that I'm 100% beginner on doing this. Does FreeNAS ZFS run off of a os or not? or is that just my main computer? Because I'm dual booting Windows/Linux on my main desktop and also working on getting mac os running on KVM on linux. Soo will a small ssd like a kingston 120GB work ok to boot off of and what would you suggest for a ssd size for the cache? I do also have a 1tb sshd kicking around if it would work for that.