Spec for DIY NAS

[Guest]

I'm looking into building my own DIY NAS for the house. I only have experience with PCs so I'm not sure what type of spec I should be looking for. I'm after something relatively flat with a 1TB SSD for shared storage then 6-7TB HDD capacity across several HDDs in Raid 1 for regular backup of the PCs in the house. This would be 6x 2TB HDDs and 2x 1TB HDD so I can keep the data from different PCs separate (3 have 2TB storage and the 4th has 1TB).

 

I'm after minimum power consumption as it'll be on most of the time so energy efficiency is key. Automation of backups would also be nice if possible.

 

So what should I be looking for? And what components do people recommend?

 

Thanks for any help.

[3 Lions]

It'll be cheaper to get a proper NAS. 

[Guest]

Just now, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

It'll be cheaper to get a proper NAS. 

Ok. Could you recommend one that would suit my needs?

[3 Lions]

1 minute ago, OTheB said:

Ok. Could you recommend one that would suit my needs?

Any WD NAS is good. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, OTheB said:

Ok. Could you recommend one that would suit my needs?

Look at this https://www.amazon.com/Synology-Station-Diskless-Attached-DS416j/dp/B019ZUR5WQ

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

it will be cheaper to get one large drive over several smaller ones, and then you can use a smaller less power consuming motherboard & CPU. Just partition it appropriately.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

it will be cheaper to get one large drive over several smaller ones, and then you can use a smaller less power consuming motherboard & CPU. Just partition it appropriately.

ok, so would I be looking at 3x 4TB drives, one 2TB drive and an SSD? Or as far as 2x 7TB HDDs with the SSD?

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

2 minutes ago, OTheB said:

ok, so would I be looking at 3x 4TB drives, one 2TB drive and an SSD? Or as far as 2x 7TB HDDs with the SSD?

what is your total requirement? i think the 4 and 6 TB drives give the best price to size ratio but it might work out cheaper with a 8TB drive.

 

I have 3X 2TB drives in raid0 and a 6TB drive as backup. it does SSD speed with a NIC for each device connecting to it. the gigabit lan is the only bottleneck

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

what is your total requirement? i think the 4 and 6 TB drives give the best price to size ratio but it might work out cheaper with a 8TB drive.

 

I have 3X 2TB drives in raid0 and a 6TB drive as backup. it does SSD speed with a NIC for each device connecting to it. the gigabit lan is the only bottleneck

Total requirement: 3x 2TB PCs + 1TB PC + 1TB SSD shared space. If I want to have raid 1 redundancy then that makes it 14TB of HDD + 1TB SSD as the shared space isn't as precious.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

18 minutes ago, OTheB said:

Total requirement: 3x 2TB PCs + 1TB PC + 1TB SSD shared space. If I want to have raid 1 redundancy then that makes it 14TB of HDD + 1TB SSD as the shared space isn't as precious.

you do not need RAID1 to back up your computers, its such a miss-use of technology that people use RAID for home use. you're better off keeping those extra drives as offline, even offsite, backup.

 

I think you should get 2X4TB in RAID0, 1x8TB backup and a seperate smaller drive for the operating system. The 1TB SSD is a waste of money considering that you can only use the speed of your LAN.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

you do not need RAID1 to back up your computers, its such a miss-use of technology that people use RAID0 for home use. you're better off keeping those extra drives as offline, even offsite, backup.

 

I think you should get 2X4TB in RAID0, 1x8TB backup and a seperate smaller drive for the operating system. The 1TB raid is a waste of money considering that you can only use the speed of your LAN.

Ok, but the extra 1TB drive is just a shared space for having files easily accessible from all computers - nothing to do with backup at all.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

Just now, OTheB said:

Ok, but the extra 1TB drive is just a shared space for having files easily accessible from all computers - nothing to do with backup at all.

it wont need to be SSD. Just partition your larger drive; 2 + 2 + 2+ 1+ 1 = 8TB

[geo3]

On 11/25/2016 at 1:51 PM, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

It'll be cheaper to get a proper NAS. 

Not necessarily. This can be done for around $120ish and will be far more flexible and powerful that a consumer enclosure.  

http://imgur.com/gallery/7OqL6

[Guest]

3 hours ago, geo3 said:

Not necessarily. This can be done for around $120ish and will be far more flexible and powerful that a consumer enclosure.  

http://imgur.com/gallery/7OqL6

This looks good. I'd probably get a different case though as the spot I need to get it in is rather flat. I have about 15-20cm height, but the horizontal area of the side of a deep mid-tower case. I'd be slipping it in next to a router and a switch.

[geo3]

2 hours ago, OTheB said:

This looks good. I'd probably get a different case though as the spot I need to get it in is rather flat. I have about 15-20cm height, but the horizontal area of the side of a deep mid-tower case. I'd be slipping it in next to a router and a switch.

I also considered the Fractal Design Nano S when building this which is only somewhat wider than a power supply.