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koji · May 20, 2018

Hi. I am planning to build myself a NAS. Though I dont have irreplaceable data currently so I dont think that I will be needing any RAID configuration. But I'd like to be educated so I will be delighted to hear your opinions.

I also want to make it accessible anywhere if that's possible. Like my own personal cloud. (I can talk to my ISP and get myself a Static IP easily).

Also I wonder how I am gonna add more drives if in-case im gonna exceed from the normal 4 Sata slot limit. Can I add a PCIE Sata without getting troubles?

Btw here are the specs that I am planning to use.

Pentium G3250 4th Gen, 4GB Ram. I got 2TB + 1TB HDD. Battery Backup from APC. Do I need SSD btw?

Thank you so much LTT.

Mr.Humble · May 20, 2018

Just set up Windows Storage spaces and save yourself the hassle. No redundancy or parity setting and it handles almost everything for you. Not sure about the "personal cloud" aspect though.

brob · May 20, 2018

H87 motherboards should have six SATA III ports. On can get PCIe addon cards that add more ports.

No real need for an ssd if all the box is going to be doing is serving storage.

panther420 · May 20, 2018

27 minutes ago, koji said:

I also want to make it accessible anywhere if that's possible. Like my own personal cloud. (I can talk to my ISP and get myself a Static IP easily).

You can either port forward and use a service like SFTP to access your files from anywhere, install a plugin on your box like Resilio Sync and sync your files, or you might be able to setup an OpenVPN server on your machine and with some fiddling on your clients, you might be able to access the shares through SMB (windows sharing protocol.) You'll probably run into a lot of issues though, so maybe this will help you: https://superuser.com/questions/790775/cant-connect-to-smb-shares-using-openvpn.