Minimum Home NAS specs

[Lk4583]

Hi guys I was planning to buy a prebuilt NAS until i saw this video 

 

 

The specs of the computer are....

I3 2120

4gb ram

500gb hardrive 

no graphics card

 

 

 

[IsaacDaGrazin]

#igpu4lief

[Howlingwolf101]

Depending on what you plan to do with it, just store things or use it as a streaming platform, making sure it has a good NIC is helpful. 10/100/1000 is good (and usually standard for boards nowadays). I actually ran into that problem before because i'm an idiot and didn't bother to check. I guess the only other thing would be to make sure there's room to add more storage such as another hdd or two. 

[RedWulf]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fcL2t6 I mean this is probably the cheapest nas I could think of that would be efficient

[Lk4583]

4 minutes ago, RedWulf said:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fcL2t6 I mean this is probably the cheapest nas I could think of that would be efficient

Thanks Red Wulf actually in my country most of those products aren't available could you make a cheap NAS using this price list http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf This is in Australian money. Thanks  

[RedWulf]

3 minutes ago, Lk4583 said:

Thanks Red Wulf actually in my country most of those products aren't available could you make a cheap NAS using this price list http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf This is in Australian money. Thanks  

Rather than reading through all of that, I'm trusting pcpartpicker's Australian filter. 

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/Js7TXL

[Lk4583]

Just now, RedWulf said:

Rather than reading through all of that, I'm trusting pcpartpicker's Australian filter. 

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/Js7TXL

alright then:)

[RedWulf]

4 minutes ago, Lk4583 said:

alright then:)

you may want to go with a tb hard-drive though, it's not much higher and 500gb won't last terribly long 

[Jarsky]

Just throwing it out there - instead of spending ~$400 on a system to host a 500GB drive, perhaps it might be better just getting a 6TB drive and putting it in your PC?

 

IMO theres a point at which there are dimininishing returns and you shouldn't really bother building a dedicated NAS - especially if you have a computer from the last 5 years, as it will support lower powerstates (Intel Speedstep) which will make it fairly efficient at idle anyway to just leave that on.