Minimum requirements for home NAS

[Alesek]

Hello, I am planning on building my own NAS. What would you recommend as minimum specs to fully saturate 1gbit network?

[jj9987]

What are you going to use it for? What kind of data? What kind of applications?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What protocol? Random or sequentical?

 

For large files over nfs, basically any pentium 4 or newer is enough power, and 1gb of ram is fine. You really dont need that much.

[Alesek]

7 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

What are you going to use it for? What kind of data? What kind of applications?

7 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What protocol? Random or sequentical?

 

For large files over nfs, basically any pentium 4 or newer is enough power, and 1gb of ram is fine. You really dont need that much.

basically instead of data drive on my pc so accessing documents and larger files. Mostly sequential reads I think

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Alesek said:

basically instead of data drive on my pc so accessing documents and larger files. Mostly sequential reads I think

 

budget? How much storage do you need?

 

Id just keep the hdd in your pc though, cheaper, faster, less stuff to manage

[Alesek]

budget would be as cheap as possible basically and id say 2-4TB in raid1. 

 

I am sharing the files between multiple devices so it would make it much easier. Plus hdd is currently the only audible thing in my PC, which bothers me

[Pixel5]

you will still need local storage in your PC, a NAS is nice for file storage but it is not something you would for example install programs or games onto.

 

 

i would recommend to keep a HDD in your PC and if you want a NAS get any prebuilt 2 bay NAS and install the HDD´s you want.

[Alesek]

6 minutes ago, Pixel5 said:

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I'd still have bunch of local storage - SSDs. I am also looking at the prebuilt NAS atm as they seem to be cheaper and have lower power consumption than anything I could build myself. Thanks