Building NAS w/ ownCloud

[grinsnsmiles]

Hello everyone,

I am planning on building my own NAS, with owncloud installed.

It would have either Ubuntu or Debian installed with Owncloud.
I need help with hardware selection:

I read that buying Motheboard with ECC support is a waste of money for NAS, and at the same time that it is a must. I am planning on having all my my photos, videos there.
ownCloud will be used for small personal file transfers, and mainly automatic upload of photos from our cellphones. 

Here is my hardware selection:

Case:

 #1: Silverstone #DS380B

 #2: U-NAS NSC-800 Server Chassis

Motherboard:

 #1: ASRock Motherboard, Mini ITX DDR3 1600 LGA 1150 E3C226D2I

CPU:

 #1: Intel Core I3-4160 Processor 3.60 GHz, 2-Core LGA1150

 #2: Intel Xeon Processor E3-1231V3B

Memory:

 #1: Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB)

 #2: Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) ECC

HDD:
 Probably 6 1tb drives.

 

Should I go for the higher cost of Xeon as oposed I3, and should I go with ECC memory? If you guys have any other suggestions I would be happy to check them out.

Edit:
I would be running them in RAID 10

[beavo451]

No point in spending extra money.

[tt2468]

You will be fine with non ecc. That i3 actually supports ecc tho.

[grinsnsmiles]

What about the case? do you guys have any suggestions, on wether to go with u-nas or silverstone, or any other. I am looking for about 8 drives.

[beavo451]

43 minutes ago, grinsnsmiles said:

What about the case? do you guys have any suggestions, on wether to go with u-nas or silverstone, or any other. I am looking for about 8 drives.

Lian Li PC-Q26 is pretty nice if you want to fork over the cash for that.

 

Or join all the cool kids with a rack mount case.

[grinsnsmiles]

I am afraid of the rack mount case because of the noise. I live in an apartment that does not allow me to hide it somewhere where i cannot hear it. I was actually entertaining the idea of building rack mount per linuses video, but the power consumption and noise turned me off. 

[beavo451]

2 minutes ago, grinsnsmiles said:

I am afraid of the rack mount case because of the noise. I live in an apartment that does not allow me to hide it somewhere where i cannot hear it. I was actually entertaining the idea of building rack mount per linuses video, but the power consumption and noise turned me off. 

Power consumption and noise is not directly tied to the type of case.... yes some cases have sound dampening, but the case itself does not inherently produce more noise.