Minimum hardware requirements

[KillSwitch87]

I have a spare case, 80+gold PSU and about 20T of drives at home since I upgraded my PC (gave old guts to friend, no room for drives in new one because of water loop)

I want to build a NAS in my old hotswap case, as cheap as possible. The only other person in the house if my flatmate so max 2 people will be using it but power saving is very important because we're running 3 PC's in the apartment too and when the AC's are on the circuit breaker already doesn't like it. 

I'd really appreciate suggestions on what parts I should get, I have no clue. 

 

Thanks!

[newcbomb]

You can literally run Ubuntu Server on  Pentium 4 so ANYTHING will work. i would suggest some old LGA 771,775, or 1366 Xeons which are still pretty powerful. Such as the Xeon X5460. Also 4GB of DDR2-ECC is like $2.79USD

[Rallenhayestime]

I would try 1366 xeons.

[Kered124]

How many drives, and what sizes?

[KillSwitch87]

3 hours ago, Kered124 said:

How many drives, and what sizes?

10x2T drives

[Nils3D]

12 hours ago, newcbomb said:

You can literally run Ubuntu Server on  Pentium 4 so ANYTHING will work. i would suggest some old LGA 771,775, or 1366 Xeons which are still pretty powerful. Such as the Xeon X5460. Also 4GB of DDR2-ECC is like $2.79USD

Bingo, 1366 X or E series xeons will go just fine  or better yet since you want to use less power, get an L series
A little 4GB stick of ecc memory for example and a HBA card that can handle 10 ports to the drives...

[KillSwitch87]

1 hour ago, Nils3D said:

Bingo, 1366 X or E series xeons will go just fine  or better yet since you want to use less power, get an L series
A little 4GB stick of ecc memory for example and a HBA card that can handle 10 ports to the drives...

This is probably a stupid question but don't Xeons require eatx boards? Is that just the case if I use 2 of them?

[Nils3D]

1 minute ago, KillSwitch87 said:

This is probably a stupid question but don't Xeons require eatx boards? Is that just the case if I use 2 of them?

Naah, ATX dual xeon boards are all over the place. 
I've done ATX, E-ATX dual xeon builds before including my own workstation i'm rendering on (dual X5660's).

Also you can go single 1366 board also

some examples of form factors and power connectors and whatnot:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro-X8DAL-I-Rev-2-0-Dual-Intel-Socket-LGA1366-Motherboard-/302461387586?hash=item466c1a8342:g:eIEAAOSwKE9Zw7Fr


http://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro-X8DTL-3F-rev2-01-Motherboard-server-board-Dual-LGA-1366-Sockets-DDR3-/201640496206?epid=82136499&hash=item2ef2b5cc4e:g:EwsAAOSwgZ1XrLoJ

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASRock-X58EXTREME-System-Board-X58-Extreme-LGA1366-Fully-Tested-Free-Shipping-/152694754972?epid=79156070&hash=item238d510e9c:g:BLMAAOSw-jxZcmMW

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SERVER-BOARD-SUPERMICRO-X8STi-F-LGA1366-6xDDR3-2xLAN-IPMI-/172690355328?hash=item283525b480:g:8ugAAOSw3gJZI-TF

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Workstation-Board-WX58BP-LGA1366-/272820335911?epid=74117560&hash=item3f855bf527:g:PXoAAOSwstxVER6f

 

[KillSwitch87]

18 minutes ago, Nils3D said:

Naah, ATX dual xeon boards are all over the place. 
I've done ATX, E-ATX dual xeon builds before including my own workstation i'm rendering on (dual X5660's).

Also you can go single 1366 board also

some examples of form factors and power connectors and whatnot:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro-X8DAL-I-Rev-2-0-Dual-Intel-Socket-LGA1366-Motherboard-/302461387586?hash=item466c1a8342:g:eIEAAOSwKE9Zw7Fr


http://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro-X8DTL-3F-rev2-01-Motherboard-server-board-Dual-LGA-1366-Sockets-DDR3-/201640496206?epid=82136499&hash=item2ef2b5cc4e:g:EwsAAOSwgZ1XrLoJ

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASRock-X58EXTREME-System-Board-X58-Extreme-LGA1366-Fully-Tested-Free-Shipping-/152694754972?epid=79156070&hash=item238d510e9c:g:BLMAAOSw-jxZcmMW

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SERVER-BOARD-SUPERMICRO-X8STi-F-LGA1366-6xDDR3-2xLAN-IPMI-/172690355328?hash=item283525b480:g:8ugAAOSw3gJZI-TF

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Workstation-Board-WX58BP-LGA1366-/272820335911?epid=74117560&hash=item3f855bf527:g:PXoAAOSwstxVER6f

 

Nice, thanks I'm in Japan though so for cheapest prices gotta use Rakuten (Amazon and Ebay usually don't ship)

Can't find 1366 Xeons but they're selling 5160, E5420 and the likes for around 30bucks. Are those any good? 

Aaand I'm kind of uncomfortable with buying used hardware, I mean it won't suddenly burts into flames and burn down mt stuff right? O.OThis thing will be on 24/7

[GDRRiley]

then get a LGA 771 cpu+ workstation mobo, get some ECC DDR2 or DDR3(if you mobo uses it) and while it may not be that power efficient it should run non stop for years