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It's more than enough for most NAS uses. If you don't know whether or not you need more PCIe lanes, you probably don't.

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I recently upgraded my computer and was looking at repurposing my old pc as a nas. Its a 7700k. Was wondering if this would be good enough or if the limited amount of pcie lanes that 7th gen has would make it not worth it.

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It's more than enough for most NAS uses. If you don't know whether or not you need more PCIe lanes, you probably don't.

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you don't need those pcie lanes for nas, barely even use it (excluding m.2).

all you need is enough sata ports.

7700k is okay, overrpowered for home usage, if i must say.

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IMO a 7700K is overkill for a lot of home NAS uses. I have two NAS systems at home, and one of them is based on a Core 2 Duo from 2008. It's more than capable of saturating my gigabit network connection for file transfers. 

 

It would be helpful if you listed the rest of the components you have, such as your power supply, motherboard, and case. 

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Take your discrete graphics card out, and you'll have plenty of PCIe lanes for high speed networking or a drive controller. (You can use the built-in Intel graphics for video transcoding if you want that.)

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On 6/3/2022 at 9:50 AM, BondiBlue said:

IMO a 7700K is overkill for a lot of home NAS uses. I have two NAS systems at home, and one of them is based on a Core 2 Duo from 2008. It's more than capable of saturating my gigabit network connection for file transfers. 

 

It would be helpful if you listed the rest of the components you have, such as your power supply, motherboard, and case. 

Thanks for responding back, forgot to check my post and finally have saved enough to do a possible build.
Parts i have:
7700k
Asus Maximus IX Code MOB

Tridentz 32 GB 3200 mhz  4x8
EVGA SuperNOVA 850W Gold

Will have to get another case and cooler but thats not hard, might upgrade the case for my main rig with is currently a Cooler Master Storm Trooper which has 8 bays for hard drives which would be perfect for this.

Im curious to know if i need to get something like an hba card. Again thank you for responding.

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