$500 NAS?

[Octavialicious]

Never do any NAS builds, so just kind of threw together a build and I'd like your feedback. (Try not to roast me too hard) Board supports raid, and everything else is just pretty general. I threw in the random cooler because the stock one looks gross imo

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/ymsGkT

 

I assume there's better options for the HDD's, but I'd rather stay away from Seagate and not increase the budget too much. Thanks!

[Guest]

Looks nice to me.

[desertcomputer]

Why not stock cooler? I would go with NAS drives such as WD REDS or Seagate NAS drive. What OS are you planing to use for your NAS? 

[Octavialicious]

2 minutes ago, MrUnknownEMC said:

Why not stock cooler? I would go with NAS drives such as WD REDS or Seagate NAS drive. What OS are you planing to use for your NAS? 

Probably just Windows because I'm a pleb. Might also throw in a light weight linux distro, dunno.

 

No particular reason, I just REALLY dislike the look and for $12 I rather make it slightly better looking. I'll see how much more NAS drives are, what do you think of RAID 5?

[Vitalius]

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wjTyFd

 

>4 cores
>Intel Atom SoC that's passively cooled
>M-ITX form factor
>less storage

I recommend Amahi as your OS. Free, based on linux, home storage server software. Think of it as the light version of FreeNAS. Has plugins for various software like Plex Media Server.

http://www.amahi.org/

[Octavialicious]

2 minutes ago, Vitalius said:

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wjTyFd

 

>4 cores
>Intel Atom SoC that's passively cooled
>M-ITX form factor
>less storage

I recommend Amahi as your OS. Free, based on linux, home storage server software. Think of it as the light version of FreeNAS. Has plugins for various software like Plex Media Server.

http://www.amahi.org/

I've been curious about those ASRock embedded boards, but is it really worth all the storage loss? Thanks for recommending Amahi, I'll definitely give it a look!

[Vitalius]

10 minutes ago, Octavialicious said:

I've been curious about those ASRock embedded boards, but is it really worth all the storage loss? Thanks for recommending Amahi, I'll definitely give it a look!

So here are some cool things about those boards. 

It has IPMI. IPMI is a service that lets you access the system even if it's off. You can remote into it and control it as if it's your main PC. There are buttons with the remote software (it uses Java) that let you turn the system on and off. This way, it's "headless", meaning you don't need a dedicated monitor/keyboard/mouse to access it or you don't have to move one when you want to. You just need a browser, Java, and be on the same network as the server and know it's IP address or host name for the IPMI.

Amahi has a web browser for managing the OS, so that isn't *that* impressive as long as you don't have to access the BIOS. But it's definitely cool imo and useful. Just requires a separate ethernet connection. 

It has 12 SATA ports, so you can expand for quite a while on it.

It has two Ethernet ports (separate from the one for the IPMI). Useful in rare circumstances but otherwise eh.

On the other hand, there's this SuperMicro motherboard: https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-Mini-A1SAI-2550F-Motherboard-Combo/dp/B00HS4N6SE

$40 cheaper, and it has the same CPU. The thing is, it uses special "laptop" form factor RAM. You can get it. It's just special in that regard.

Has IPMI.
Has four Ethernet ports instead.
Has 6 SATA ports (not like you'd hit 12 drives in an M-ITX case anyway). 
SuperMicro makes enterprise level server motherboards and their warranty is great.

That $40 savings brings the total price to $502ish. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CUYOGRM That RAM would work with the motherboard which brings the price to $516ish.

Be honest. What are the odds of you filling up 3TB of data within a year? I have 8 TB of storage and I've only gotten to 3TB and it's been well over a year.

I download a **looooot** of stuff. Though I don't do backups because I'm too used to rebuilding my OS. I don't back up my media though because I can just get it back later if I care enough. 

It's of course up to you. I'm just saying. You can always add more storage later as you need it.

[Guest]

Building a web interface, with a local webserver like apache+php, will allow you to acces those files to. Drag/drop is also possible. (you just have to set up the webserver propperly) There also used to be a command, which would shut down your computer/server, using a client browser. So yea, IPMI  can do all that, and making a "webserver" like that, is some work. (but can be fun to do to) If you set up your modem correctly, you could acces your NAS from all over the world.

 

He wanted 12 tb of HDD storage space. I agree, it's alot. But if he thinks he needs it, let him buy it.

 

Running a windows machine like a NAS is a fair option in my opinion. And then that CPU will be fine IMHO.

[Octavialicious]

2 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Building a web interface, with a local webserver like apache+php, will allow you to acces those files to. Drag/drop is also possible. (you just have to set up the webserver propperly) There also used to be a command, which would shut down your computer/server, using a client browser. So yea, IPMI  can do all that, and making a "webserver" like that, is some work. (but can be fun to do to) If you set up your modem correctly, you could acces your NAS from all over the world.

 

He wanted 12 tb of HDD storage space. I agree, it's alot. But if he thinks he needs it, let him buy it.

 

Running a windows machine like a NAS is a fair option in my opinion. And then that CPU will be fine IMHO.

The storage is probably overkill but I just plan on archiving a TON of files from all over the web (I would never use this much if it was just for my downloads, as I usually only use up 200GB on my main PC's )

[Guest]

I had to stop collecting, due to only 5 tb of hdd storage... So considering it's a NAS, I think it has enough storage space for a few years of collecting. (you should not have to upgrade the other hardware, because it's "only" for storage, and you could acces the files/drives, by just using network connections in windows itself)