NAS Build after upgrades

dialgarocksful · February 17, 2017

Kinda thinking on building a NAS for movies/games/stream archive storage soon for the house. Is this build viable:

- i3-2120 + H61M (will be buying from a friend of mine for cheaper than normal)

- ~8GB RAM (to go for 1GB RAM = 1TB of storage)

- Corsair VS450 (this is the only option I got for <40USD PSU in my country)

- 4x1TB WD Blue (will be getting this one drive per month as I am a currently a college student)

- old cheapo case that can fit 4 (or more in case of additional upgrades) 3.5" drives

- NIC for connecting to router (do I still need a NIC or does the mobo one can do)

do I need to change something?

Thermite · February 17, 2017

The motherboard one will be fine. 8GB of ram is more than enough for such a small amount of storage. I'd invest in a UPS when you get a chance a 75$ one from local store will just help in the long run.

Doramius · February 17, 2017

Not a bad build for use solely as a NAS. You wouldn't want to add anything extra to it as far as software and applications. FreeNAS will be perfect for this rig. As for the NIC ports, having more ports is not bad. I'd definitely use the onboard, but adding a NIC-card would be recommended. Even a NIC card with multiple ports would be great, and bond a few of the ports together for load balancing and failover. Much greater throughput, that way.