I want to build a budget nas

[Sukrit Kumar]

Actually I want to build a nas for my dad's office for him. I can arrange a second hand dell pc with an 4th gen i5 and maybe 4gb of ram. I don't want to much fast speed and more storage the thing I want is reliability so ssd it is. 1-2 tb is enough so I want it around 20000 rupees including that dell pc costing around 11000 and yes it needs that ram upgrade for supporting any of those os. If there are any os which support 4gb ram do mention the name and steps for it.

If there is any more clarification required do ask.

Thanks if someone did help

[Kanna]

Just put a 2TB drive in the dell and install freenas

[monjessenstein]

18 minutes ago, Kanna said:

Just put a 2TB drive in the dell and install freenas

Seconded, plus if you don't care too much about the speed but do want reliability it could be worth running 2 identical drives in RAID 1, since that'll keep your data save even in the case that a drive fails.

[jaslion]

26 minutes ago, monjessenstein said:

Seconded, plus if you don't care too much about the speed but do want reliability it could be worth running 2 identical drives in RAID 1, since that'll keep your data save even in the case that a drive fails.

Not really. Raid 1's can easily get corrupted when the raid fails and then data is lost on all drives. Best is to just tell freenas to copy one drive to the other periodically.

[Sukrit Kumar]

12 hours ago, Kanna said:

Just put a 2TB drive in the dell and install freenas

wow first read the complete post

[Sukrit Kumar]

20 hours ago, jaslion said:

Not really. Raid 1's can easily get corrupted when the raid fails and then data is lost on all drives. Best is to just tell freenas to copy one drive to the other periodically.

I want it to be automated and i guess 4 drives feel good for me and 1 drive for redundancy. so which software and drives is best. And yes i don't want for 24/7 opperations.

[Sukrit Kumar]

20 hours ago, Kanna said:

Just put a 2TB drive in the dell and install freenas

I want redundancy and automation not that silly 2tb drive which costs a lot and also the data is also not safe. I want to sleep peacefully without worrying about my data.

[Kanna]

51 minutes ago, Sukrit Kumar said:

I want redundancy and automation not that silly 2tb drive which costs a lot and also the data is also not safe. I want to sleep peacefully without worrying about my data.

Cost a lot what are you on about?

[Kanna]

9 hours ago, Sukrit Kumar said:

wow first read the complete post

I did you can't get an ssd in that budget

[Sukrit Kumar]

15 hours ago, Kanna said:

I did you can't get an ssd in that budget

yes I can

[Kanna]

5 hours ago, Sukrit Kumar said:

yes I can

Do it then if a 2tb ssd is that cheap there lucky you