Building a NAS, Budget: $300
11 hours ago, Hulkbert said:So, would you say this is a good starting point?
Maybe similar, depends on your needs, if you just want it for NAS duties for like freenas and a plex plugin, and a few VMs then yes that should be fine. Would be better with newer though for power consumption... also bear in mind that the one you have looked at there only comes with a few drive sleds, so will need more for your drives.
has 16 logical cores with turbo upto 3.3 IIRC, it only has one PSU, so no backup PSU and no iDRAC (dells remote access controller), so you'd need to hook up a monitor for configuring the bare metal server, if you have an OS installed though, you can usually configure them remotely. For example ESXi once installed can be configured remotely very easily... same with other hypervisors, and same with OS's that would run on those hypervisors like freenas for example.
Again doesn't come with many drive sleds, they rarely do, so budget for those also, You can usually get a few for around $5-10.
I'm not advocating for the one I linked BTW, just using it as an example... would be best to read all the fineprint for the listings to know what you're getting exactly, and if not sure what something is, come back and ask.
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