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Building a NAS

Mdgtman91
By Mdgtman91
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I want to build a nas to store all my movies, backups, music and what ever else i can think of

other than a mess of hard drives what should i get in terms of cpu, ram, and mobo

also should i get a raid controller, im thinkin i want to do a raid 5

and help and advice is appreciated, thanks

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Is it just for backup?

Main rig: i7 3770K @ 4.54, Sapphire R9 290, Sabertooth Z77, 16 GB Mushkin Redline 2133, Lian Li PC-P50R, Seasonic 860xp Platinum, Kingston Hyper X 3K 240GB

freeNAS server: AMD Athlon II 170u 20W, 5 x 3TB WD Red in raid-z1 (12 TB)

media centre: AMD A10-5700, crucial M4 (boot), running XBMC,4 x 3TB WD Red, 3 x 3TB WD green + 2TB green in FlexRAID (17 TB)

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