nas Looking into creating my family's NAS

[nokel81]

Hi I was wondering if I could get some advice.

 

Things that the NAS should be able todo:

• Backup for local computers
• Remote collection for pictures (iPhoto, currently on many different drives)
• PLEX server

 

I am currently looking a buildup about the following: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/vhX4dX

 

How does this look?

[gbergeron]

21 minutes ago, nokel81 said:

Hi I was wondering if I could get some advice.

 

Things that the NAS should be able todo:

• Backup for local computers
• Remote collection for pictures (iPhoto, currently on many different drives)
• PLEX server

 

I am currently looking a buildup about the following: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/vhX4dX

 

How does this look?

get a better PSU like EVGA g2 or g3 550 watt

[Electronics Wizardy]

You need a gpu, id go 2200g here.

 

What OS?

 

Id go 2x 8tb drives. lower power, less noise, cheaper per tb, and more expansion room.

 

 

[aezakmi]

Here's something else

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/FCfXbX

 

Let's see

>Why the A320? well it's for a NAS not for a gaming rig, it's cheap but still good

>The 2200, newer but also about the same price as the 1200, the gpu is more than enough for video sharing or whatever you're gonna do with it

>Having less hard drives is better and also cheaper, you even have room for a SSD that's entirely for the OS and related software, it might not be the best but it's reliable for 24/7 use, it allows you to dedicate the HDDs entirely to storage

>The case, I only changed it because it has an extra 3.5" bay just in case you upgrade later

>PSU... it'll do, cheap, decent quality and basically overkill for that system

>A fan, the drives will generate a lot of heat and you'll have to remove it somehow

 

The BIOS is already updated, unless the store still has the old board version in stock... in that case you'll need to tell them to send you an updated version

[Wakes Inc]

A gold rated psu is also worth considering.  Because you nas will be on 24/7 the higher efficiency does help if you have higher energy rates.

[njmyers3]

How are you planning to pool the HDDs? RAID? Storage Spaces? ZFS? unRAID? I'm just curious. This will also effect how many HDDs and of which capacity you want to use.

[nokel81]

23 minutes ago, njmyers3 said:

How are you planning to pool the HDDs? RAID? Storage Spaces? ZFS? unRAID? I'm just curious. This will also effect how many HDDs and of which capacity you want to use.

I was planning on doing RAID 6.

 

15 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You need a gpu, id go 2200g here.

 

What OS?

 

Id go 2x 8tb drives. lower power, less noise, cheaper per tb, and more expansion room.

 

 

As for OS I was thinking freeNAS or unRaid. I haven't looked too much into either but I am leaning towards freeNas.

 

14 hours ago, aezakmi said:

Here's something else

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/FCfXbX

 

Let's see

>Why the A320? well it's for a NAS not for a gaming rig, it's cheap but still good

>The 2200, newer but also about the same price as the 1200, the gpu is more than enough for video sharing or whatever you're gonna do with it

>Having less hard drives is better and also cheaper, you even have room for a SSD that's entirely for the OS and related software, it might not be the best but it's reliable for 24/7 use, it allows you to dedicate the HDDs entirely to storage

>The case, I only changed it because it has an extra 3.5" bay just in case you upgrade later

>PSU... it'll do, cheap, decent quality and basically overkill for that system

>A fan, the drives will generate a lot of heat and you'll have to remove it somehow

 

The BIOS is already updated, unless the store still has the old board version in stock... in that case you'll need to tell them to send you an updated version

Thank you very much. However, if I wanted to do something like RAID 6, wouldn't multiple smaller drives be better?

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, nokel81 said:

I was planning on doing RAID 6.

Id just do a 2 drive mirror, here, I don't see the point of raid 6 here.

6 minutes ago, nokel81 said:

As for OS I was thinking freeNAS or unRaid. I haven't looked too much into either but I am leaning towards freeNas.

Do you want to expand? Do you want to do anything other than storage?

 

[nokel81]

36 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id just do a 2 drive mirror, here, I don't see the point of raid 6 here.

Do you want to expand? Do you want to do anything other than storage?

 

Okay makes sense re drives. I am looking at also it being a PLEX server

[Electronics Wizardy]

58 minutes ago, nokel81 said:

Okay makes sense re drives. I am looking at also it being a PLEX server

Both will oses will do a plex server fine.

 

If you want to expand, unraid is much easier. Id use what os you want.

[jde3]

Decent advice here (not sure I'd wish unraid/btrfs on anyone but.. suit yourself)

 

You may want to take a look at Emby as opposed to Plex tho. I find it better.