Help with budget NAS build

[david31160]

So around 2 weeks ago I built a shiny new NAS with a Raspberry Pi running OpenMediaVault with 2 2 tb WD Red drives set to mirror mode. However, a few days ago I suffered a catastrophic power outage which caused me to lose all the data on both drives (luckily I managed to recover the data off the NAS drives). It appears that somehow the power outage caused the partitions on the drives to disappear or the software raid in OpenMediaVault was syncing the drives or something. So I’m currently looking to replace this NAS setup as I don’t want to have to deal with recovering 400 gigabytes of data every time their is a power outage. I was originally thinking of putting a UPS on the Raspberry Pi and having it automatically shut down after the UPS detects a power outage but their is still the risk that somebody accidentally unplugs the Raspberry Pi or the UPS fails. I’m currently thinking of building a cheap pc to use as a NAS because that would be less likely to fail during a power outage. Currently I’m thinking of using one of those motherboards with integrated CPU. However, I’m not sure whether they will be powerful enough to run like FreeNAS or unRAID. I could also attach the drives to my server but unfortunately the server is 1U and can only fit 2 drives and one of the drive bays already has a hard drive in it. What do you guys think is the best option? Any suggestions for parts for the cheap pc build idea? (I have a budget of $150 for that, not including a case. The power outage appeared to have caused my fridge to break too so I don’t have much money to spend on replacing the NAS)

[KenjiUmino]

4 minutes ago, david31160 said:

However, I’m not sure whether they will be powerful enough to run like FreeNAS or unRAID.

any recent on board CPU will run circles around the pi - if a raspberry pi can handle it, anything can

[ltguy]

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