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[jd_guy17]

Hi guys,

 

I am planning to get a NAS/Home server quite soon. I plan on running 2 3TB drives in RAID5 and then a SSD as the main boot drive. I was wondering what you guys thought of the parts that I have picked and what I should change out. I also want to try and keep the price down. I plan on adding 4 more drives in the future when the 6TB gets filled up. It won't really be under a heavy load so it doesn't need to be super quick.

 

Here is what I have chosen at the moment:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9RysVn

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9RysVn/by_merchant/

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3450 3.4GHz Dual-Core Processor  (£58.94 @ Ebuyer) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£93.56 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£60.88 @ More Computers) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£104.76 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£87.54 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£87.54 @ Aria PC) 

Case: BitFenix Phenom Midnight Black Mini ITX Tower Case  (£66.95 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: Corsair RM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£65.94 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £626.11

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-02 12:52 BST+0100

 

Thanks in advance!

[Fulgrim]

I'd say an APU would be a better option.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD A10-5800K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£74.59 @ Amazon UK) 

Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+ Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard  (£70.85 @ Amazon UK) 

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£62.68 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£104.76 @ Amazon UK) 

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£87.54 @ Aria PC) 

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£87.54 @ Aria PC) 

Case: BitFenix Phenom Midnight Black Mini ITX Tower Case  (£66.95 @ Amazon UK) 

Power Supply: Corsair RM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£65.94 @ Scan.co.uk) 

Total: £620.85

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-02 12:59 BST+0100

[SAV1OUR]

boop

 

no need for it though 

[Fulgrim]

no need for it though 

Never claimed a need for it, laddie. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) But it'd be nice if he decided to run a small private game server for Garry's Mod/ CSS or something, it's what my mate does with his freeNAS server he put together.

[SAV1OUR]

Never claimed a need for it, laddie. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) But it'd be nice if he decided to run a small private game server for Garry's Mod/ CSS or something, it's what my mate does with his freeNAS server he put together.

wouldn't the strain form running a game server throttle the apu? because so much powers being dedicated to the server 

[Fulgrim]

wouldn't the strain form running a game server throttle the apu? because so much powers being dedicated to the server 

As long as you only run an old game, and limit the amount of players to no more than 12. CSS isn't exactly demanding tbh.

[Scouten]

 

Hi guys,

 

I am planning to get a NAS/Home server quite soon. I plan on running 2 3TB drives in RAID5

you need atleast 3 drives for Raid 5. you can do Raid 1 or 0 though and most of the time you can Expand Raid 1 into Raid 5 later when you get more drives

[Denned]

RAID5 requires atleast 3 disks.

[Vitalius]

you need atleast 3 drives for Raid 5. you can do Raid 1 or 0 though and most of the time you can Expand Raid 1 into Raid 5 later when you get more drives

RAID5 requires atleast 3 disks.

This^

Also, you wouldn't get 6TB of space. You'd get ~4TB in RAID 5.