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1 hour ago, BDunkz said:

Ok, so an:

intel pentilim 

some itx mobo

8 or 16gb stick of ddr4

Fractal design node 304

2 wd red 4tb hdd

Usb for unraid

 

did I miss anything?

 

Dont forget a PSU ;)

Just make sure with the CPU you stick with a G series Pentium or Celeron - they all have onboard graphics so you wont require a GPU.

You cant really go past the Intel G4560 for price to performance in the low tier, if you want to save another $20 though you could also just do a celeron like a G3930

 

Something like this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($66.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock - H270M-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($91.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($54.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Red 4TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($135.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital - Red 4TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($135.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Fractal Design - Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case  ($84.90 @ OutletPC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.39 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $640.23
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-11 04:50 EDT-0400

 

 

You might also be interested in some other more NAS oriented case options (if your budget allows for any of these):

 

Silverstone DS380B has 8 hotswap bays

iStarUSA S-35-DE5 has 5 hotswap bays

Norcotek ITX-S4 has 4 hotswap bays

Norcotek ITX-S8 has 8 hotswap bays

iStarUSA S917 has 7 5.25" bays (You can install 2 x hotswap bays such as this)

iStarUSA S915 with 5 x 5.25" bays (As above but less bays)

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1 minute ago, ChalkChalkson said:

about 50$ i think :)

unrelated funfact: you can chain unraid free trials... they really ought to fix that, I am sure they are losing quite a bit of money with that

How many drives as a min do I need for unraid?

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3 minutes ago, ChalkChalkson said:

about 50$ i think :)

unrelated funfact: you can chain unraid free trials... they really ought to fix that, I am sure they are losing quite a bit of money with that

Can you recommend a itx nas case WITHOUT hotswap bays like the fractal node 304

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How many drives as a min do I need for unraid?

well, technically one, but then you have no protection, if you want protection 2, and you should get at least one relatively large drive, probably best to go with 2 3TB or 2 2TB drives

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Can you recommend a itx nas case WITHOUT hotswap bays like the fractal node 304

completely, I am using a Node 304 for my main server :)

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Just now, ChalkChalkson said:

well, technically one, but then you have no protection, if you want protection 2, and you should get at least one relatively large drive, probably best to go with 2 3TB or 2 2TB drives

I'll get 2 4tb wd red so I have a tone of space and redundancy 

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1 minute ago, ChalkChalkson said:

completely, I am using a Node 304 for my main server :)

Can you fit extra ssd on the sides of the outside bays?

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Can you fit extra ssd on the sides of the outside bays?

jup, but you need to screw in the SSD first

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Just now, ChalkChalkson said:

jup, but you need to screw in the SSD first

So 8 hdd and 2 ssd?

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1 minute ago, BDunkz said:

I'll get 2 4tb wd red so I have a tone of space and redundancy 

that is a great solution (more than I have actually :P ) 

If you have any more questions to how to configure it, please leave them in the unraid guide thread, so I have stuff in the right place, hardware questions should probably stay here :) 

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Just now, ChalkChalkson said:

that is a great solution (more than I have actually :P ) 

If you have any more questions to how to configure it, please leave them in the unraid guide thread, so I have stuff in the right place, hardware questions should probably stay here :) 

Can you link it here for me?

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So 8 hdd and 2 ssd?

If you go balls to the wall you can fit 6 HDDs (well 3.5'') and 6 SSDs. Just srew in an SSD to the other side of each HDD mount before screwing in the HDD, is a bit fiddly though 

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5 minutes ago, ChalkChalkson said:

If you go balls to the wall you can fit 6 HDDs (well 3.5'') and 6 SSDs. Just srew in an SSD to the other side of each HDD mount before screwing in the HDD, is a bit fiddly though 

Wow

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6 minutes ago, ChalkChalkson said:

If you go balls to the wall you can fit 6 HDDs (well 3.5'') and 6 SSDs. Just srew in an SSD to the other side of each HDD mount before screwing in the HDD, is a bit fiddly though 

Well I've decided my case

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1 minute ago, BDunkz said:

Well I've decided my case

^^but be aware that HB and RAID cards are expensive and most mobos have just 6 SATA ports

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Just now, ChalkChalkson said:

^^but be aware that HB and RAID cards are expensive and most mobos have just 6 SATA ports

There is a $50 that only acts as another 8 sata ports

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1 minute ago, ChalkChalkson said:

^^but be aware that HB and RAID cards are expensive and most mobos have just 6 SATA ports

Linus uses it in one of his builds 

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There is a $50 that only acts as another 8 sata ports

well if you need to expand later this sounds like a great option

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Just now, ChalkChalkson said:

well if you need to expand later this sounds like a great option

And is ssd caching good?

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3 minutes ago, BDunkz said:

And is ssd caching good?

in some applications it is great, in others it doesn't really matter... for just storing photos, it will probably significantly impact the write times especially when dumping all whole SDXC card worth of pictures.

And the rsync time goes down, if you choose to use it for backup (see last 2 sections of the unraid guide)

I'd do it though ;) 

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1 minute ago, ChalkChalkson said:

in some applications it is great, in others it doesn't really matter... for just storing photos, it will probably significantly impact the write times especially when dumping all whole SDXC card worth of pictures.

And the rsync time goes down, if you choose to use it for backup (see last 2 sections of the unraid guide)

What do you have in your nas?

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What do you have in your nas?

Well the first NAS I built has a 240GB SSD, a bunch of random drives I found around the house a Haswell Pentium G3XXX chip, a MoBo I got from a client because it had broken audio, and 4GB of RAM I got to keep from another client when I replaced it.

In my more proper server I run a 240GB SSD cache, 3 2TB WD Reds or Seagate Iron Wolfs (can't remember actually), a G4560 in a ASRock - H110M-ITX and 8GB of RAM, but this server also hosts a bunch of well... servers

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15 minutes ago, ChalkChalkson said:

Well the first NAS I built has a 240GB SSD, a bunch of random drives I found around the house a Haswell Pentium G3XXX chip, a MoBo I got from a client because it had broken audio, and 4GB of RAM I got to keep from another client when I replaced it.

In my more proper server I run a 240GB SSD cache, 3 2TB WD Reds or Seagate Iron Wolfs (can't remember actually), a G4560 in a ASRock - H110M-ITX and 8GB of RAM, but this server also hosts a bunch of well... servers

And you use unraid?

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15 minutes ago, ChalkChalkson said:

Well the first NAS I built has a 240GB SSD, a bunch of random drives I found around the house a Haswell Pentium G3XXX chip, a MoBo I got from a client because it had broken audio, and 4GB of RAM I got to keep from another client when I replaced it.

In my more proper server I run a 240GB SSD cache, 3 2TB WD Reds or Seagate Iron Wolfs (can't remember actually), a G4560 in a ASRock - H110M-ITX and 8GB of RAM, but this server also hosts a bunch of well... servers

No ups? Does it run all the time?

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No ups? Does it run all the time?

Jup and jup, UPS is really just important if 24/7 operation is vital to you 

1 minute ago, BDunkz said:

And you use unraid?

jup, on both of those and it works great

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