New NAS Build

[ausduckz]

Hello,

 

I'm looking at building a NAS, as my current storage solution is quickly filling up. I plan to run unRAID on it, as it seems to have all the features that I require.

It will be acting as a storage location for all media on a home network, and act to serve those files via Plex. I would like it to be relatively cheap, but still be able to handle transcoding Plex streams without any issues.

 

I've currently selected out:

Intel Core i3-4170

Supermicro X10SLM-F-O

Crucial 16GB ECC Unbuffered DDR4 1600MHz

 

Could I get some thoughts and opinions on these core components. I had thought about going a more mainstream build using Non ECC memory, but I wasn't entirely sure if unRAID requires ECC memory, such as FreeNAS does.

 

Anyway, thanks for your help.

[Hailey-Ross]

11 minutes ago, ausduckz said:

Hello,

 

I'm looking at building a NAS, as my current storage solution is quickly filling up. I plan to run unRAID on it, as it seems to have all the features that I require.

It will be acting as a storage location for all media on a home network, and act to serve those files via Plex. I would like it to be relatively cheap, but still be able to handle transcoding Plex streams without any issues.

 

I've currently selected out:

Intel Core i3-4170

Supermicro X10SLM-F-O

Crucial 16GB ECC Unbuffered DDR4 1600MHz

 

Could I get some thoughts and opinions on these core components. I had thought about going a more mainstream build using Non ECC memory, but I wasn't entirely sure if unRAID requires ECC memory, such as FreeNAS does.

 

Anyway, thanks for your help.

I don't see anywhere it says that ECC is required and on another forum I saw a post saying that it isn't. Cannot confirm but seems to not be required

[Aekim]

ECC is for zfs, unraid uses xfs or btrfs so you can go non ecc (for home use )

[beavo451]

ECC is for zfs, unraid uses xfs or btrfs so you can go non ecc (for home use )

ZFS and, by extension, FreeNAS does not require ECC memory.

[ausduckz]

Ok, with that in mind then, here's something far cheaper without ECC memory. Only reason I am buying brand new is because I do not have any hardware spare to build from.

 

Keeping in mind that I want a cheap, solid build, that will run pretty much 24/7 and has low power consumption. Will be running unRAID with Plex to serve all my media, and possible a torrent client too.

Intel Pentium G4400

ASRock H110M-HDV

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB RAM

 

Thanks.

[Aekim]

Perhaps look into a haswell i3 Combo, far more powerfull and not that much more expensive.