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I'm looking at the possibility of building my own NAS to store media content and share it with friends and family over the internet. From looking online I see a lot of people doing this kind of thing but there seems to be some conflicting information about the best equipment to use (as there is with just about any technology topic!).

My very general idea at the moment is to build a 4 x 3tb drive raid in an ITX case. Beyond that I don't have much figured out.

Can anyone advise me on which particular motherboard, CPU, raid controller etc to use? How much RAM would it need? How much do the specs of these components actually affect the operation of the unit overall?

Any input appreciated. Thanks.

 

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2 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

which raid are you going to use?

I'm open to suggestion on that also. Any suggestions?

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i would say to make it easy and fast just use raid 1.

do you have a budget?

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2 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

i would say to make it easy and fast just use raid 1.

do you have a budget?

With 4x drives? theres not really a point in doing so.

 

I would recommend raid 5, just kidding, no.

 

Raid 10 SHOULD work good.

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Just now, LukeSavenije said:

i would say to make it easy and fast just use raid 1.

do you have a budget?

I already have the 4 x 3tb drives. The budget for the entire rest of the build would be about £250 (UK money) if possible (I'm fine with shopping around for used parts).

 

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2 minutes ago, Jrock said:

With 4x drives? theres not really a point in doing so.

 

I would recommend raid 5, just kidding, no.

 

Raid 10 SHOULD work good.

When it comes to Raid 10, how much usable storage space would that leave, roughly?

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1 hour ago, DezGalbie said:

When it comes to Raid 10, how much usable storage space would that leave, roughly?

3TB

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motherboard with Intel C236 + cheap celeron + ecc.

raid should be build in.

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3 minutes ago, DezGalbie said:

When it comes to Raid 10, how much usable storage space would that leave, roughly?

2x3tb

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You should consider power consumption too for 24/7 operation...

Xeon 1230 is a workstation cpu, draws too much power for a nas.

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1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

You should consider power consumption too for 24/7 operation...

Xeon 1230 is a workstation cpu, draws too much power for a nas.

Would you recommend building with a c236 motherboard and a smaller power supply rather than repurposing a workstation?

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Honestly, I'd worry more about finding a proper PSU for a case like that.

U1 would be good.

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1 hour ago, DezGalbie said:

Would you recommend building with a c236 motherboard and a smaller power supply rather than repurposing a workstation?

if ecc not your concern, check this out, 10 watt tdp pentium silver ($113):

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157808

 

about ecc read this first:

https://blog.briancmoses.com/2014/03/why-i-chose-non-ecc-ram-for-my-freenas.html

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