Home NAS computer build

[FifteenWheat061]

Budget (including currency): About 100 000 HUF (about 325 USD)

Country: Hungary

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly would be used for home NAS, maybe some easier tasks, like media server.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):  I have all the necessary periferials, and etc. (including an 1600*900 VGA display)

I also have an Asus GT 610 2GB Silent gpu.(I think for the display it will be more than enough) I also have a really old 230W psu, but I think that should be upgraded.

I was thinking about only getting a few TB storage, maybe 1-2 because mostly *legally obtained* movies/installers/etc. would be stored on it. 

I'm thinking about getting it in a few weeks. 

 

I don't have any problems with getting used hardware. I think only my HDD should be new. I'm fine with the LGA 775/771 sockets too. Maybe would it be a good idea to get a dual socket lga 771 board, and 2 older xeon cpus, with lots of ram, so I could expand the storage if I'll need more in the future? I'd also need a case, if it doesn't fit into a really old normal ATX house (without any cable management holes).

 

Thank you for your help in advance!

[rapidkillerx]

go for more storage than that, at least 4, if not more

[FifteenWheat061]

12 minutes ago, youngboy said:

Since the point of a NAS is storage, get more storage. A lot more storage. Do your drives have RAID? Get drives with RAID so your data doesn't get lost if a drive fails

I don't have any drives yet. But thank you for reminding me about RAID. What drives do you recommend to get for RAID? 

[FifteenWheat061]

17 minutes ago, youngboy said:

The Seagate Ironwolf drives have really good RAID. Get the ones with data recovery. Seagate makes great nas drives, and I recommennd the seagate ironwolf pro drives for nas. Get the ones with raid and data recovery

As far as I can tell, they are pretty pricey. 2* 2TB Ironwolf NAS drive (red) takes up about half of the budget. One 4TB would cost about 40 000 HUF.

 

Data recovery doesn't really matter for me, because mostly movies, and random files would be stored on it, that are easily replaceable. Would putting wd blues in it a bad idea?   

[FifteenWheat061]

4 minutes ago, youngboy said:

Not a bad idea. If you are more a longevity guy than a data recovery guy, then get WD Blue drives are a good idea. But if you store important  data on the NAS and want data recovery, then get the Seagate. For you the WD Blue is better. 

Thank you! 

 

And what do you suggest for the motherboard and cpu/ram should be? 

[FifteenWheat061]

On 6/22/2020 at 8:34 PM, youngboy said:

For a NAS, you really don't need too much. A ryzen 3 2200g with 8gb RAM is very good for a NAS. For the motherboard, I like the Gigabyte B450. For the OS, get free nas. 

Thank you!