rolo928
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Hello there!
Long time lurker, first time poster. I am looking to build a NAS primarily for personal use (store photos, files and videos). Secondary purpose will be to stream movies at home, and tertiary is to play and explore with different possibilities: video camera capture, home automation, etc. I would like something compact and that I can forget about.
Research:
Case: I am happy with this 6 drives and it is small. Although I originally wanted the U-NAS NSC-810A which allows for a micro-ATX but it is sold out and there is no announcement of it coming back into stock.
Mobo: This is the toughest search for a mini ITX. I really like the idea of IPMI and having 6 SATA. I see 1 SATA port is shared with the M.2 socket. This piece sets the tone for the entire build.
CPU: So far I want a CPU that can do ECC and is optimized for storage operations. Mainly pictures, home videos, etc. I want to be able to edit the home videos and play them. There are so many options here. I am looking at Xeon first, but I am open to an ix series that will do ECC and encode video.
RAM: I settled on 32 GB not doing anything too crazy. Picked the ECC RAM. Looking for what's best for NAS.
Expansion Card, m.2: found this, I think the mobo will only support 3 of the 4 m.2 slots. Or I can use a USB to m.2 adapter very cool. Or a card for only one M.2.
OS Storage: Use 1 m.2 slot for the OS. Should I mirror it. Seems like if it failed there would be no data loss, unless writing at the moment.
SLOG/L2ARC: SLOG seems to expensive for personal use. I'm under 64gb of ram so no L2ARC.
PSU: I calculated a total of 600w with an 80% load. I didn't go with seasonic bc the g-series was difficult to find.
HDD: I will have 6 4TB HD. I would want them to work in pairs and have 3 mirror the other 3 for redundancy. Not sure what ZFS raid that is. So usable 12 TB
Every time I think I figured a part out I have to readjust for a feature I need and missed. Writing this forced me to read the hardware guide which actually answered a LOT of my questions. Really good stuff in there. Any advice and thoughts are appreciated. The motherboard was the hardest part for me. Anything I can buy used I will.
Thank you all for your help,
Rolo
Long time lurker, first time poster. I am looking to build a NAS primarily for personal use (store photos, files and videos). Secondary purpose will be to stream movies at home, and tertiary is to play and explore with different possibilities: video camera capture, home automation, etc. I would like something compact and that I can forget about.
| Case | Fractal Node 304 Mini ITX | $ 99.99 |
| Mobo | ASRock E3C242D4U LGA1151 | $ 195.99 |
| CPU | INTEL INTEL XEON E-2126G (used) | $ 100.00 |
| RAM | 32GB Kit 2x16GB DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM | $ 159.99 |
| NVME | Kingston A400 120G Internal SSD M.2 2280 | $ 26.92 |
| NVME Card | ASUS Hyper M.2 X16 PCIe 3.0 X4 Expansion Card | $ 52.99 |
| PSU | be quiet! BN639 SFX L Power 600W 80 Plus Gold | $ 119.90 |
| Fans | Noctua Fans x2 120mm x2 94mm | $ 80.00 |
Subtotal w/o drives | $ 835.78 | |
| HDD | Western Digital 4TB WD Red Plus $82.99 each x6 | $ 497.94 |
Total including drives | $1,333.72 |
Research:
Case: I am happy with this 6 drives and it is small. Although I originally wanted the U-NAS NSC-810A which allows for a micro-ATX but it is sold out and there is no announcement of it coming back into stock.
Mobo: This is the toughest search for a mini ITX. I really like the idea of IPMI and having 6 SATA. I see 1 SATA port is shared with the M.2 socket. This piece sets the tone for the entire build.
CPU: So far I want a CPU that can do ECC and is optimized for storage operations. Mainly pictures, home videos, etc. I want to be able to edit the home videos and play them. There are so many options here. I am looking at Xeon first, but I am open to an ix series that will do ECC and encode video.
RAM: I settled on 32 GB not doing anything too crazy. Picked the ECC RAM. Looking for what's best for NAS.
Expansion Card, m.2: found this, I think the mobo will only support 3 of the 4 m.2 slots. Or I can use a USB to m.2 adapter very cool. Or a card for only one M.2.
OS Storage: Use 1 m.2 slot for the OS. Should I mirror it. Seems like if it failed there would be no data loss, unless writing at the moment.
SLOG/L2ARC: SLOG seems to expensive for personal use. I'm under 64gb of ram so no L2ARC.
PSU: I calculated a total of 600w with an 80% load. I didn't go with seasonic bc the g-series was difficult to find.
HDD: I will have 6 4TB HD. I would want them to work in pairs and have 3 mirror the other 3 for redundancy. Not sure what ZFS raid that is. So usable 12 TB
Every time I think I figured a part out I have to readjust for a feature I need and missed. Writing this forced me to read the hardware guide which actually answered a LOT of my questions. Really good stuff in there. Any advice and thoughts are appreciated. The motherboard was the hardest part for me. Anything I can buy used I will.
Thank you all for your help,
Rolo
