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I am wanting to build a cheap nas. I would like to not have my stuff being stored solely on a cheap WD external drive. My budget is $150-$200 without drives. I don't know where to start probably a g3258 and 8gb of ram but besides that I am clueless.

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47 minutes ago, messenger1316 said:

I am wanting to build a cheap nas. I would like to not have my stuff being stored solely on a cheap WD external drive. My budget is $150-$200 without drives. I don't know where to start probably a g3258 and 8gb of ram but besides that I am clueless.

If you are using ZFS/freenas, the recommendation is 1GB RAM per 1TB storage. A g3258 should work fine if you use ubuntu server+samba.

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16 hours ago, Kyle Manning said:

If you are using ZFS/freenas, the recommendation is 1GB RAM per 1TB storage. A g3258 should work fine if you use ubuntu server+samba.

So would the 3258 be ok for freenas or unraid? What mobo would you recommend also?

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1 hour ago, messenger1316 said:

So would the 3258 be ok for freenas or unraid? What mobo would you recommend also?

It will work, 2gb of ram for the OS to work in + 1gb per tb of storage is a safe practice. If you plan to have more than like 4tb you need a better cpu to keep up though. As for the mobo, just get the factor that suits you and has 10/100/1000 ethernet you probably want more than 3 sata ports. The case depends on the MoBo factor but as long as it has the right number of drive bays it will work. If you use freenas you need a 16+gb drive just for the OS but you can use usb3.0 for that. PSU get atleast bronze rated for this.  

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