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Hello the wonderful techies of LTT, recently i got a funding from parents of 1500US$ to build a NAS, the problem, is i know jack shit about servers/NAS so i need your help to choose all of the components and programs to download, i really dont need more than  20TB as i will be only be storing family trip photos and videos and a couple of movies

please choose all of the components from this website www.gear-up.me as i will be able to only order parts from this website you can change the currency to US$

IMPORTANT NOTE: please make it a very easy build as i dont have alot of experience in building computers (i only built one) and please try to make the programs easy to set up

Thank you all

 

 

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Home Rig:                                                                                                  :

CPU: Intel I7 3770 @ 3.4 Ghz

CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo                                                                  

GPU: MSI Radeon Rx 550 Aero ITX 1gb (amazing gpu btw)   
RAM: 2x4 Mismatched Ram Sticks                                                          

Motherboard: Pegatron 2AD5                                                                  

HDD: 1TB WD BLUE                                                                               

Case: HP 7500 Series MT Case                                                            

PSU: Cooler Master 500W Elite                                                              

Workstation:

CPU: i7 5960x @4.3Ghz

CPU Cooler: Kraken X62                                                                                                                 

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1080 Ti 1G

RAM: Kingston HyperX 32GB DDR4 2133Mhz

Mobo: Asus X99- Deluxe

HDD: WD Blue 4TB 5200RPM

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Case: Corsair 750D 

PSU: Corsair RM 750x

 

 

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Id just buy a premade one. Much lower power, more reliable, easier to use, good built in software.

 

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

 

Then id get 2 of these hdds, and add more when you need more space https://www.amazon.com/3-5-Inch-SATAIII-7200rpm-Internal-WD8001FFWX/dp/B01H33VQDG/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1496348225&sr=1-2&keywords=8tb+wd+red

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id just buy a premade one. Much lower power, more reliable, easier to use, good built in software.

 

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

 

Then id get 2 of these hdds, and add more when you need more space https://www.amazon.com/3-5-Inch-SATAIII-7200rpm-Internal-WD8001FFWX/dp/B01H33VQDG/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1496348225&sr=1-2&keywords=8tb+wd+red

Ok thanks 

Feel free to quote me if you want an answer

NAS hard drive list feel free to PM me questions or anything about Hard drive as i am in love with them 

I fly the Boeing 737-800 for Turkish Airlines

"Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally" - George.S Patton

"There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily. All because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did." - George.S Patton

"An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking!" - George.S Patton

"Sure, we all want to go home. We want to get this war over with. But you can't win a war lying down. The quickest way to get it over with is to get the bastards who started it. We want to get the hell over there and clean the goddamn thing up, and then get at those purple-pissing Japs. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. So keep moving. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler." - George.S Patton
 

 Specs

Home Rig:                                                                                                  :

CPU: Intel I7 3770 @ 3.4 Ghz

CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo                                                                  

GPU: MSI Radeon Rx 550 Aero ITX 1gb (amazing gpu btw)   
RAM: 2x4 Mismatched Ram Sticks                                                          

Motherboard: Pegatron 2AD5                                                                  

HDD: 1TB WD BLUE                                                                               

Case: HP 7500 Series MT Case                                                            

PSU: Cooler Master 500W Elite                                                              

Workstation:

CPU: i7 5960x @4.3Ghz

CPU Cooler: Kraken X62                                                                                                                 

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1080 Ti 1G

RAM: Kingston HyperX 32GB DDR4 2133Mhz

Mobo: Asus X99- Deluxe

HDD: WD Blue 4TB 5200RPM

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB

Case: Corsair 750D 

PSU: Corsair RM 750x

 

 

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synology has a lot of offerings that'll do nice for you, they have everything from the small 2-disk home solutions all the way up to 100+TB enterprise solutions that are (near) infinitely expandable.

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9 hours ago, weed said:

Hello the wonderful techies of LTT, recently i got a funding from parents of 1500US$ to build a NAS, the problem, is i know jack shit about servers/NAS so i need your help to choose all of the components and programs to download, i really dont need more than  20TB as i will be only be storing family trip photos and videos and a couple of movies

please choose all of the components from this website www.gear-up.me as i will be able to only order parts from this website you can change the currency to US$

IMPORTANT NOTE: please make it a very easy build as i dont have alot of experience in building computers (i only built one) and please try to make the programs easy to set up

Thank you all

 

 

Well first up: 20TB is totally overkill for that... I shoot my holiday pictures in uncompressed RAW and ripped my entire movie collection, and 6TB is plenty. 

I'd advise you to go with either WD Red or Seagate Ironwolf drives, if you have to buy new drives, or just whatever you already own.

As of the CPU: you should get a low power, but modern chips. Good compromised in terms of power draw, cost and performance for NAS systems are usually modern (Haswell, Skylake, Kabylake) Pentium chips, or the new ryzen r3 chips.

With the motherboard you should probably just get whatever floats your boat in terms of price and form factor, though you might want to buy one with 6 SATA 3 ports or more.

If you are new to the subject (and have the budged) you might want to buy unraid for 50$, since it is very easy to use.

As of how to handle that particular piece of software check out this post .

You will not need to spend 1500$ for this, even this totally overkill 12TB NAS costs just above 1K.

This NAS will perform significantly better than any consumer grade prebuilt system, and considering, that without the drives it is about 440$ and can be expanded to up to 6 drives and has a massive and massively fast cache, it is probably best compared to something like this  while being about half the price.

Additionally you will easily be able to make it your plex server.

Linus even made a video about prebuilt vs DIY NAS though he advises, what I also consider a good option, to buy old crap from ebay. If you don't plan to go with more than 6 drives, you won't even need to be worried about RAID/HBA cards

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https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PLcgcc

 

Just throw in WD Red's

My Rig : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MTBd2R

My VM Server : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rPR6gL

My Backup Server : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cRQYYr

My Storage Server : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tzzR9W

My Router : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bMPN4C

My Laptop : Lenovo Z575 with 6 GB RAM (1866 MHz), Crucial MX300 525 GB & Western Digital 2 TB (Removed optical drive)

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