Advice on First NAS build

[Jeff Jefferson]

Hey all,

 

Been thinking about building my first home NAS for a while now. I'm mainly wanting something to store my Photos and stream my music production files (around 200kb per sample). At first, I thought I would buy just a Synology 2 bay but then thinking about the effectiveness of redundancy RAID 1 is and the cost per GB I thought I should get a bigger system. I then took a look in a larger system that Synology had to offer and saw without HDD they are quite pricey for not that little performance. Since I'm fairly well accustomed to computers

I thought it would be fun to build one. It's just computer right?

 

So then I thought about getting a big ol' boi from a second hand server pool but then realised that they scream pretty loud which is definitely not ideal while try to work next to it. So then I thought I'll build my own from scratch with a more modest home server like case with a back plane and hot swapable drives. After some research I came up with the components below. I'm planning on running my NAS with FreeNAS. I'm still unsure about whether to go RAIDZ1 or 2; I know most of you here will push for 2 for good reasons. Is there anything missing(besides HDD, I know)? I have thought about the integrated SuperMicro boards, but they're actually quite expensive. I did also think about getting some old server boxes that have 10-year-old Xeons in them, but I've heard for the same performance, modern hardware will perform the same with less power. Furthermore, I think Power is a constraint as well as I don't want my server to be pulling 200watts or what ever 24/7.

 

TL;DR: Are these specs effective for Photos Storage/stream and Audio File streaming?

Constraints/Goals:
 - Low power usage
 - reasonably cheap(budget of 300-400eu; without HDDs Of course)
 - (optional) Should be able to stream small audio files
 
|  Component | Model                                                               |
|----------- |---------------------------------------------------------|
| CPU        | Intel Pentium Gold G640                                              |
| Memory.  | Cheap non ECC Memory around 16GB?                                    |
| MoBo      | MSI B460M A PRO Mainboard                                            |
| Case       | SuperMicro SuperChassis 743T-500B(I found one for second hand 100eu) |

 

Thanks for all the help!

[Haraikomono]

id suggest you look at the j1900 for the very first build, pretty cheap and does the job

[Jeff Jefferson]

2 hours ago, Haraikomono said:

id suggest you look at the j1900 for the very first build, pretty cheap and does the job

Unfortunately not available through my supplier.

 

[10leej]

10 hours ago, Jeff Jefferson said:

TL;DR: Are these specs effective for Photos Storage/stream and Audio File streaming?

Constraints/Goals:
 - Low power usage
 - reasonably cheap(budget of 300-400eu; without HDDs Of course)
 - (optional) Should be able to stream small audio files
 
|  Component | Model                                                               |
|----------- |---------------------------------------------------------|
| CPU        | Intel Pentium Gold G640                                              |
| Memory.  | Cheap non ECC Memory around 16GB?                                    |
| MoBo      | MSI B460M A PRO Mainboard                                            |
| Case       | SuperMicro SuperChassis 743T-500B(I found one for second hand 100eu) |

 

Thanks for all the help!

Should work, I'd look for something like a Ryzen 3 though since they have ECC support enabled should you ever get around to installing ECC memory as well as have a really great CPU upgrade path.

 

You ideally want ECC eventually because hardware ECC memory does a better job preventing bitrot than zfs or btrfs.