Buy or build NAS?

[ColdDigital]

Hey,

I dont know whats best, build or buy a NAS?

If buying is better, Id like to have a synology nas cause i may run a minecraft developer server on there, and heard that synology supports that.

Preferably a 4 bay.

Budget for buying: 350 euro ~ 380 US dollars, case itself. Im gonna buy the harddrives with my own money

Which NAS should I go for, if buying?

If building, I have an old pc case (prolly gonna buy a mATX one if building, a PSU, a cpu (pentium), 2 gigs of ddr2/ddr3 (not sure cause I cant enter the pc), a mobo ATX (prolly gonna buy a new mATX, if I do happen to build one), and thats about it.

Thanks, hope you can help!

[C0LL0SS0S]

that Looks like something you could use

http://lifehacker.com/5938883/how-can-i-build-a-quiet-low-powered-home-file-server

[Altecice]

If you're running a MC server (or plan to) make sure you have a lot of RAM just for that purpose. I was hosting my friends one for a few days while he was doing a server migration and with the 170 mods he had running it was using ~4Gb of RAM and a fair bit of my Xeon's CPU.

[ColdDigital]

If you're running a MC server (or plan to) make sure you have a lot of RAM just for that purpose. I was hosting my friends one for a few days while he was doing a server migration and with the 170 mods he had running it was using ~4Gb of RAM and a fair bit of my Xeon's CPU.

So building one would be better then. So basically to recap, you're saying it'd be best to include a NAS into a powerful server pretty much?

 

Thanks