Gaming and NAS PC

[Keagan554]

I am going to attempt the gaming NAS as Linus did in this video 

I just have a few questions.

1. can the NAS run independently when the Gaming pc shuts down/sleeps?

2. do all the drives for the NAS need to be connected to the mother board directly, or is there a way to connect all the drives to a hub and then just 1 cable to the mother board? reducing cables and opening up ports on the MB

3. is it even worth it? Im in Australia where the internet is a big bottle neck with download maxing out at ~100 Mbps and upload maxing at ~50 Mbps

 

thanks.

[manikyath]

1: no.

2: yes but dont.

3: no.

 

it's a fun gimmick, but if you have any sort of space where a small NAS fits, for the love of god, get a seperate NAS.

[Keagan554]

thanks it looks like a cool thing to have but as you said 'gimmick.'

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, Keagan554 said:

thanks it looks like a cool thing to have but as you said 'gimmick.'

it's a cool gimmick, but i dont see many people relying on a "gimmick" for data security

[jj9987]

36 minutes ago, Keagan554 said:

I am going to attempt the gaming NAS as Linus did in this video 

I just have a few questions.

1. can the NAS run independently when the Gaming pc shuts down/sleeps?

2. do all the drives for the NAS need to be connected to the mother board directly, or is there a way to connect all the drives to a hub and then just 1 cable to the mother board? reducing cables and opening up ports on the MB

3. is it even worth it? Im in Australia where the internet is a big bottle neck with download maxing out at ~100 Mbps and upload maxing at ~50 Mbps

 

thanks.

1) If you only shut down the Windows virtual machine, then yes, the NAS part will continue to run. The physical computer will not shut down. If you shut down the whole PC, then the main operating system (which hosts the NAS part) is also shut down.

2) Depends on the motherboard. There are HBAs out there, which are PCI or PCI Express cards and you can connect more hard drives to that adapter. It won't reduce cable clutter though.

3) For local network usage, yes - that is if you have other devices, that would need to use the data from NAS as well. The internet speed only affects what you are downloading from the actual internet. Local network speeds are whole different story. You shouldn't expose your NAS directly to the internet anyway.

 

The point of network attached storage is to allow all devices in one local network access some information so that it doesn't need to be in every device. For example, I have all my media files on the server and I can access them with my phone, my laptop, my PC, my roommate can access them with his devices as well without having to have these files on all devices.

[Keagan554]

Thanks. I thing i had the wrong idea about NAS my bad. ill probably build a separate NAS. (i haven't figured out how to reply yet) 

[ShadowWolf810]

I was thinking about doing the exact same thing you were @Keagan554. I saw this case and thought it might be cool https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811165605 There are others like it too, but this would be good if you have some old hardware laying around. You'd just need an ITX motherboard, but this way you could you mess around with unRAID/virtualized Windows. Even if you need to buy the components you'd probably save money instead of going with Synology or another prebuilt NAS. Is a good idea if you want to tinker with it all, but if you just want something that works with built in features I'd probably go Synology.

[manikyath]

6 hours ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

I was thinking about doing the exact same thing you were @Keagan554. I saw this case and thought it might be cool https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811165605 There are others like it too, but this would be good if you have some old hardware laying around. You'd just need an ITX motherboard, but this way you could you mess around with unRAID/virtualized Windows. Even if you need to buy the components you'd probably save money instead of going with Synology or another prebuilt NAS. Is a good idea if you want to tinker with it all, but if you just want something that works with built in features I'd probably go Synology.

IMO cases like that cost too much for what they are, hotswap bays are great for a buisiness where time costs money, but for the home just get a normal case (or dumpster dive one, my home server is running out a prebuilt case)

[Keagan554]

6 hours ago, ShadowWolf810 said:

I was thinking about doing the exact same thing you were @Keagan554. I saw this case and thought it might be cool https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811165605 There are others like it too, but this would be good if you have some old hardware laying around. You'd just need an ITX motherboard, but this way you could you mess around with unRAID/virtualized Windows. Even if you need to buy the components you'd probably save money instead of going with Synology or another prebuilt NAS. Is a good idea if you want to tinker with it all, but if you just want something that works with built in features I'd probably go Synology.

I've got 2 really old HHDs that where from my dads old pc so ill try out UNraid to see if its worth getting more storage (if the HHDs even work)