NAS Build Planning

[Ophidio]

I'm trying to put together a simple NAS for my house as I'm about to have a roommate move in and it'll just make everything easier instead of everything being kept on my own computer. This is the first NAS I've ever built and it doesn't need to be anything fancy. My budget is around $900 for this build even though cheaper would be nice. I'm going with an i3 just for performance purposes because I might occasionally run a Minecraft server from it if ever needed or other misc. servers. Any help with this would be appreciate. 

 

Budget: $900

Country: United States of Obesity (America)

Purpose: Household/Media NAS

 

This is Currently what I have put together. I went with 16GB of RAM because I've heard you need a GB for each TB of storage and the other 8GB of RAM is going to be for server hosting stuff like the Minecraft server that I mentioned. 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($111.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: ASRock H170M-ITX/DL Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($87.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($56.99 @ Adorama) 
Storage: Crucial MX200 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($81.72 @ Adorama) 
Storage: Western Digital Red Pro 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($210.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Western Digital Red Pro 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($210.99 @ Amazon) 
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($84.99 @ Directron) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($43.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Total: $889.64
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-03 15:39 EDT-0400

 

Thank you for any help.

[Ryoutarou97]

I would suggest ECC RAM.

[KSores]

Just now, Ryoutarou97 said:

I would suggest ECC RAM.

It is a waste of money for just a personal nas

[Ophidio]

1 minute ago, Ryoutarou97 said:

I would suggest ECC RAM.

I thought about that, but getting a board that support ECC memory put it way over budget and I don't really see a need for it consider there will only be four PC's connected to it and it's going to be on a private network. 

[lh99]

red pro´s are overpriced normal red´s or seagate enterprise/server would do it also

[79wjd]

8 minutes ago, Ophidio said:

I thought about that, but getting a board that support ECC memory put it way over budget and I don't really see a need for it consider there will only be four PC's connected to it and it's going to be on a private network. 

Go with regular Reds, lose the SSD (and go with Haswell and boot FreeNAS off of a USB), and go with ECC memory. Or skip the ECC if you really want to and get a cheaper board (in addition to the above). 

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($108.99 @ NCIX US) 
Motherboard: ASRock B85M-ITX Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($61.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Mushkin Essentials 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($47.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($149.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($149.99 @ B&H) 
Case: Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($89.99 @ NCIX US) 
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Green 380W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($38.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $647.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-03 16:02 EDT-0400

[Ophidio]

4 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Go with regular Reds, lose the SSD, and go with ECC memory. Or skip the ECC if you really want to and also get a cheaper board (in addition to the above). I would also go with Haswell and just boot off an USB.

I included an SSD for the the server hosting side of things. I've personally had better results hosting servers when the server runs off an SSD.