Question about a cheap diy nas to store data for home use

[MissAuroraKitty]

So I am looking into trying to do a cheap diy nas/maybe router setup for storing files in my home, what would be my best setup options

 

Budget is somewhere around 100

 

[Blue4130]

19 minutes ago, MissAuroraKitty said:

So I am looking into trying to do a cheap diy nas/maybe router setup for storing files in my home 

And the question is what?

[Yua]

What would your budget be?

In what country are you residing?

 

The cheapest way to get into it would be to buy a second-hand Dell PC, get some new drives, and shove them there with TrueNas.

On eBay, theres an endless amount of used dell poweredge servers.

[kirashi]

2 hours ago, MissAuroraKitty said:

So I am looking into trying to do a cheap diy nas/maybe router setup for storing files in my home 

You could build your own hardware and put UnRaid or FreeNAS on it, or go with a pre-made solution from Synology or QNAP.

 

That said, I don't see a question here... Perhaps you forgot to finish writing your post? If so, you can edit it with relevant details.

[MissAuroraKitty]

I apologize, budget wise somewhere in the 100ish dollars mark  and just what would be my best budget option essentially setup wise and I'm in the us

[Needfuldoer]

5 hours ago, MissAuroraKitty said:

I apologize, budget wise somewhere in the 100ish dollars mark  and just what would be my best budget option essentially setup wise and I'm in the us

Does that budget include your storage drives?

[aggie113]

Budget is not realistic unless your NAS is low spec used hardware with mayyyybe a simple mirrored array.  If that's your whole budget, might want to just buy a decent ssd/m.2 usb drive.

[MissAuroraKitty]

3 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

Does that budget include your storage drives?

yes included hdd

[m9x3mos]

6 minutes ago, MissAuroraKitty said:

yes included hdd

Not really going to be able to build a nas diy style with that budget.

If your router has a USB port that can function that way, plugging in an external drive to that will be your best bet. 

Either they or get a used raspberry pi and share an external drive with that. 

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

I don't think you can buy Fujitsu in the US. Next best option is likely an HP EliteDesk or ProDesk.

Dell Optiplex SFF are often short on SATA ports or HDD mounts.

 

If you push the budget to $150 you could get a good solution:

$50: used PC

$50: 1TB SSD for general data storage

$50: 2TB HDD to backup the SSD and PC-backups.