Will this setup be viable?

ItsFluffyMexican · January 28, 2022

I am trying to build my first home NAS mainly for mass data storage of photos and media.

My plan is to use my old R7 1300x and Crosshair X370 motherboard.

I ordered a 500W PSU, 2 4TB WD Red hard drives, a 512gb nvme (for boot), and 16 gb of 3200mhz Crucial Ballistic RAM.

I want a cheap GPU in there mainly just for output and I found an old NVIDIA Quadro K600 for sale ($35) in my local area. I know it's an old card but would it be worth buying that or just keep looking for a newer GT730 or 1030?

RONOTHAN## · January 28, 2022

7 minutes ago, ItsFluffyMexican said:

512gb nvme (for boot)

You don't really need a 500GB SSD for a boot drive of the server. If you can save money and just get a $20 120GB SSD, I would do that. There's nothing wrong with going for the 500GB drive, it's just you aren't gonna use more than ~20-30 GB if you're gonna run Linux or 50-60 if you're gonna run Windows, so might as well save money. Personally, I'd get 2 120GB SSDs and run them in RAID 1 (software RAID 1 is very easy to setup in setup for most Linux distributions), that way if one of them dies (unlikely but possible) you have a live copy to rely on while you deal with the RMA. It would be cheaper and give you the same exact performance.

12 minutes ago, ItsFluffyMexican said:

I want a cheap GPU in there mainly just for output and I found an old NVIDIA Quadro K600 for sale ($35) in my local area.

$35 seems a bit steep for that card, but this market is so screwed up so that might actually be a pretty good price. I would just get the cheapest video card with a PCIe slot on it, there's no reason for going with a newer card unless you want to setup GPU encoding for something like Plex, but that's not really a big deal.

Chronified · January 28, 2022

My current home NAS is running on a Core2Quad Q6600 on an OEM HP motherboard with a 120GB SSD you REALLY don't need much

512gb nvme for boot is overkill unless you've got a bit of solidstate you'd like on the network, but if you've only got Gigabit networking a sata drive will be plenty.