Cheap/Power Efficcent NAS

[SuperShermanTanker]

I was wondering if this would be good make a inexpensive power efficent NAS that would work to backup files to

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8XjWMp
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8XjWMp/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD 2650 1.45Ghz Dual-Core Processor  ($25.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($34.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Avexir Budget Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Inwin BP655.FH200B Mini ITX Desktop Case w/200W Power Supply  ($46.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN781ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($12.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $229.73
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-04 18:24 EDT-0400

[RedWulf]

If you instist on using wifi, I'd recommend getting a better card. With 2tb drives you can get a single 2tb drive cheaper than 2 1tb drives. At that price I'd buy an old laptop or desktop from someone or at least use ebay. 

[Streetguru]

22 minutes ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

 

Spend a bit more and get some NAS hard drives otherwise standard hard drives will die quickly and you'll have to spend more money replacing them, with  AM1 hardware you want to max out the CPU so you don't have to worry about upgrading it, and this board has 4 sata ports, so you can expand your storage, you also want at minimum 8gbs of RAM espeically if you're running zfs on freeNAS

 

and don't use that built in PSU man, is it even 80 plus anything? you're probably going to want something gold rated if you're worried about power usage.

 

and like above, don't use wireless for your NAS, it won't be nearly as fast/stable as just going through a router/switch

 

a NAS is really something you don't want to cheap out too much on, even if it's low end

 

I think Western Digital makes a 2 bay NAS box thing that isn't the worst, but you have way more options with building a PC as a NAS obviously

 

 

or there's the WD My Cloud stuff, which probably has some issues but might be enough for your needs at $130 ish for a 2TB thing, dunno if it comes with a drive though

http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Personal-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00EVVGAFI/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1459810092&sr=1-2&keywords=WD+My+cloud

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bMDW23
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bMDW23/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($50.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $186.94
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Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-04 18:43 EDT-0400

[kirashi]

It's not bad from a cost perspective, but keep in mind that running a NAS over WiFi isn't the best idea, unless you've got some higher end WiFi components.

Hopefully all goes well, but usually at some point you'll have a random dropped connection during a large file transfer that makes it inconvenient...

[SuperShermanTanker]

2 minutes ago, RedWulf said:

If you instist on using wifi, I'd recommend getting a better card. With 2tb drives you can get a single 2tb drive cheaper than 2 1tb drives. At that price I'd buy an old laptop or desktop from someone or at least use ebay. 

I want to have the processor be a newer processor from the past 2-3 years because I don't want the power consumption to be very high and I want to have some redundancy because its going to be used to backup my files on my desktop and laptop and I don't want to have a single drive that if it flat out dies I don't want to loose all my files I rather have 2 drives of a lower capacity in a duplication raid (raid 1) to allow room for one drive to be able to die without loosing all of my data

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

I want to have the processor be a newer processor from the past 2-3 years because I don't want the power consumption to be very high and I want to

If you're worried about your data you're going to want better hard drives than what you have there, you'll also want to buy a UPS/Battery Back up for it in case of a power outage, it gives you time to shut it down

here, 2 1TB WD red drives, they're made to be in a NAS

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VC2r99
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VC2r99/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($50.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $308.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-04 18:50 EDT-0400

[SuperShermanTanker]

11 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

If you're worried about your data you're going to want better hard drives than what you have there, you'll also want to buy a UPS/Battery Back up for it in case of a power outage, it gives you time to shut it down

here, 2 1TB WD red drives, they're made to be in a NAS

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VC2r99
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VC2r99/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($50.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $308.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-04 18:50 EDT-0400

I agree its a better idea to go with the wd red drives and they are only $10 more per drive also would my origional selection of case/psu be fine because I really want to keep the computer small as I don't have alot of room to put the NAS

[SuperShermanTanker]

18 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

If you're worried about your data you're going to want better hard drives than what you have there, you'll also want to buy a UPS/Battery Back up for it in case of a power outage, it gives you time to shut it down

here, 2 1TB WD red drives, they're made to be in a NAS

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VC2r99
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/VC2r99/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor  ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($50.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($28.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.99 @ Directron)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($32.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $308.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-04 18:50 EDT-0400

Here I revised the partlist keeping the old ITX case but I added more memory, a better psu, and replaced the seagates with the wd reds:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wV3HVn
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CPU: AMD 2650 1.45Ghz Dual-Core Processor  ($25.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock AM1B-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard  ($34.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Memory: Avexir Budget Series 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($29.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($60.99 @ Newegg) 
Case: Inwin BP655.FH200B Mini ITX Desktop Case w/200W Power Supply  ($46.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular TFX Power Supply  ($63.98 @ Newegg) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN781ND 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($12.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $336.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-04-04 19:05 EDT-0400

[Streetguru]

3 hours ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

 

Buy an elite 110 case if you want a tiny case, it supports up to 3 hard drives, you can probably find a spot in it to mount a 4th to saturate the 4 slots on the board