Building a reasonable priced NAS

[L-v-R]

Hi guys,

 

looking for some help/thoughts on building a reasonably priced NAS.

 

it's partially for fun and the other part is I'm in need of a new NAS anyway. My old 3TB MyCloud does it's job, but wil be running out of storage in de near future.

 

I'm just curious on your opinion for the NAS OS, i'm leaning on UnRaid for its easier way of expanding the array, but am open to other suggestions if it would make sense.

 

I've got the following to part lists one AMD and one Intel(I've chosen for 3 2TB drives because that amount of storage is what i'm in need now(4TB storage + 2TB for the parity-drive), and can upgrade later to more, other harddrives or an other case with just more of the same harddrives.:

 

AMD:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tCtRJ8

 

Intel:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZRHsZR

 

 

Looking forward to your opinions!

[Quadrum]

I would actually buy something like this: https://www.simplynas.com/products/qnap-ts-453a-8gb-diskless-professional-grade-nas?variant=27755235472&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhoLWBRD9ARIsADIRaxRzYBRNepglG10RxVgr_gQKJhMqxB8Sw0YDv1kNcSNOMwjcCL5UAGwaAsFIEALw_wcB 

 

spend more money on drives and not buying a whole new system

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id get bigger drives, Id go for 2x 8tb if you can, you can get 8tb external drives for about 170 these days.

 

Id go for the intel system with a celeron and a h110 board. 

 

Unraid will work well here.

 

 

[Quadrum]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id get bigger drives, Id go for 2x 8tb if you can, you can get 8tb external drives for about 170 these days.

 

Id go for the intel system with a celeron and a h110 board. 

 

Unraid will work well here.

 

 

Agreed larger drives

[L-v-R]

3 minutes ago, Quadrum said:

I would actually buy something like this: https://www.simplynas.com/products/qnap-ts-453a-8gb-diskless-professional-grade-nas?variant=27755235472&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhoLWBRD9ARIsADIRaxRzYBRNepglG10RxVgr_gQKJhMqxB8Sw0YDv1kNcSNOMwjcCL5UAGwaAsFIEALw_wcB 

 

spend more money on drives and not buying a whole new system

Understandable but must say that i would really like to build it, because as explained in the original its something fun I'd want to do. I like building it, its like a project you can work on, expand and re-use in the future. But i will keep the option for a non-selfbuild NAS in mind!

 

Thanks!

[Quadrum]

Just now, L-v-R said:

Understandable but must say that i would really like to build it, because as explained in the original its something fun I'd want to do. I like building it, its like a project you can work on, expand and re-use in the future. But i will keep the option for a non-selfbuild NAS in mind!

 

Thanks!

Then rock on! Good luck and go with the intel system and larger drives!

[L-v-R]

21 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id get bigger drives, Id go for 2x 8tb if you can, you can get 8tb external drives for about 170 these days.

 

Id go for the intel system with a celeron and a h110 board. 

 

Unraid will work well here.

 

 

More something like this:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zjg4q4

 

Thanks for the advice

[Nocte]

I would get drives with a longer warranty period. WD reds are more expensive but have somehting like 4 years warranty.

Considering that you are going to use the drives often in a NAS system, it would be better to have a longer warranty period.

[Quadrum]

2 minutes ago, L-v-R said:

More something like this:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zjg4q4

 

Thanks for the advice

Perfect

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, L-v-R said:

More something like this:

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/zjg4q4

 

Thanks for the advice

Id get these drives https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC

 

Take them out of case and wd reds.

 

otherwise looks fine.

1 minute ago, Eibe said:

I would get drives with a longer warranty period. WD reds are more expensive but have somehting like 4 years warranty.

Considering that you are going to use the drives often in a NAS system, it would be better to have a longer warranty period.

Really won't make a big difference due to bathtub curve of failure. Drives are most likely to fail in the first few months or after around 5 years, so the warranty durning years 3-5 really won't help here.

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Eibe said:

I would get drives with a longer warranty period. WD reds are more expensive but have somehting like 4 years warranty.

Considering that you are going to use the drives often in a NAS system, it would be better to have a longer warranty period.

and really, thats a 5 year warranty drive, you aren't getting much better than that even on enterprise drives.

 

Id would get nas drives though for the lower power and less things like head parking.

[L-v-R]

Thanks for all the great advice, probably gonna go with two ironwolf 6TB or 8TB drives, a bit cheaper then the WD reds i think in my area. i can always expend later when or money maybe less of a problem or the array capacity is to low. 

 

Again thanks!