Let's build a SAN

[Bert the Derp]

Budget (including currency): 600 USD

Country: Hungary

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: A Storage Network Array for a web application to be accessed from around the globe. Possibly it will need extensions in multiple countries.

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): 

 

The goal is to brainstorm a little about what kind of SAN can we build with the lowest possible cost, that is still reliable and capable of hosting mostly images for a web application deployed to multiple servers. 

What I wish to achieve is to have it working with SSDs rather than HDD (it is 2021 after all, duh) with a storage capacity that can be around 1-2 TB.

 

I've build many servers so fat, but not a SAN. That is why I request the forums help. Or do you think SAN is simply not required for this project? Should I go with NAS? I often see Linus doing storage for his company, but those are NASs, aren't they?

[Bert the Derp]

Here are some hardware I was thinking of using:

• 1x TOOQ RACK-406N-USB3
• 1x GIGABYTE B550 Aorus Pro
• 1x AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
• 2x HP 16GB DDR4 838089-B21
• 1x FSP PPA7004601 700W 80+ Gold
• 2x LSI SAS 9210-8i 8-port 6Gb/s PCIe RAID SATA Controller card
• 2x Delock 5.25″ Mobile Rack for 6 x 2.5″ SATA HDD / SSD
• 12x Samsung 860 PRO 2.5 512GB (for storage)
• 1x ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 512GB PCIe (for boot)
• And as many cooling fans to move the air around as I can

 

What do you think?