I need 4bay NAS server for home, max 350$.
Any ideas?
>>53579211
Prebuilt NAS is a meme like Prebuilt PCs.
>>53579321
I won't be able to find anything good to 350$ unless it's prebuilt.
I am checking DS416j & EX4100 right now.
>>53579321
Except the fact that they have MUCH less power draw and properly built.
Comparing NAS builds is like comparing a raspberry pi-powered android smartphone with a 1Ah battery with a clamped on touchscreen in a shitty 3d printed case to an actual smartphone.
>>53579211
seems like you could just buy a low end dell tower for less than that and put 4 hard drives in it
>>53579211
Look around sites like Craig list/gumtree for old pc's form offices etc, and use that.
You really don't need anything powerful.
>>53579979
i never understood what the appeal of a NAS was when you can just use an old/cheap computer
>>53580017
>i never understood what the appeal of a NAS was when you can just use an old/cheap computer
I like the idea of having a really small box that is out of the way. these nas boxes are just that. Also you dont need some huge power hungry loud machine running when you could just run nas.
Can you hotswap your mirrored drives from a homebuild nas? Didn't think so. It's like g doesnt even offsite archives on a weekly basis
>>53579321
yeah why would you buy a small dedicated enclosure when you can make a shitty ugly one yourself for 10x the effort
>>53579211
I've been on planning on building a NAS recently to replace my current one. Priced it out to 2.5k in parts.
>>53580742
Good on you cowboy.
The average nas user doesn't need more than 2-4drives. Something small, something simple that won't suck a ton of power.
>>53580970
If I wasn't such a filthy weeaboo, I wouldn't need such an expensive NAS.
Going for about 24TB of storage.
>>53581002
There we go. 24TB of animoo and shota porn.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step, there is hope.
All I want is family photos, important legal/tax documents backed up and to create an auto backup system for my pc/phone so I can tell Dropbox and Google drive to fuck off.
>>53581002
ECC? what mainboard?
specs?
>>53580677
hotplug
>>53581463
Intel Xeon E3-1275 V5
X11SAE-M-O (Mainboard)
64GB ECC (overkill)
WD RED 4TB*8
64GB mSATA SSD (Overkill but didn't want to use a USB thumb drive.
>>53579965
No ECC, no RAID5 - not enough.
>>53579211
I know people told you already, but Ill still say it again:
Fucking build one. Pref. buy used parts for anything but HDDs
>>53581434
>NAS for backups
It sounds more like an external HDD will do the job.
>>53582377
>parity raid
>>53581582
I seriously hope you're not using this just for a NAS.
>>53582586
It will be used for Plex as well.
>>53582597
Plex requires a 3k passmark cpu. The cpu in your plan is over 10k passmark. It should be a homeserver that does a million things. think harder.
>>53581582
Drop to 32gb ECC and upgrade to a 128 or 256gb SSD and/or add in a second. RAM can be bought in the future at a cheaper rate than today and a large SSD could act like a cache drive or be otherwise added to the zpool to improve performance of the system. If you're doing pure storage, I'd also swap the processor for one of the low power xeons.
>>53582733
It's going to be sharing my library with multiple people. Most of my movies are 20GB+ on average, I want to make sure there is enough power to deal with it.
>>53582737
The current part list is just a rough draft. I haven't decided on the board yet due to not knowing if using the mSATA port will disable a standard SATA port.
I probably will half the RAM and double the SSD in the final build.
does anyone know of a dual 2.5" drive enclosure similar to pic related? I cant find anything that's not a bay tray or adapter
>>53584356
ex2100 doesn't have trays or adapters. Just throw the drive in and it's good to go.
Just get a HP MicroServer Gen8 or ML10 v2
I just finished this build. Holds 6 drives. Mobo supports 4 drives + pci-e to sata card (4 or 2 ports).
I have a 150w picoPSU on the way for a completely silent NAS.
>>53585408
Altogether (excluding drives) this cost me less than 200$
>>53579211
there you go faget
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/HYCtVn
>>53582597
slam vmware on the metal, install a freenas vm and map all your sata controllers into it. set up zvols as required and export one as an nfs share from freenas and add it to vmware then use it to host other vms. use some of the remaining freespace on your ssd as vmware cache and it will really help put performance too.
also install this on your host https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client
Do you guys use any switches with your NAS?
Any recommendations for a 8 port gigabit switch to connect to the router for home use that supports link aggregation LACP (IEEE 802.1AX-2008) and is reasonably priced?
Thanks.
