Budget Micro-atx NAS

[C M]

Hi,

Not sure where to post this so would be great if someone could re-route it!

I'm aiming to build a budget NAS under £450~ that I can upgrade in the future but is 'small' enough that I can tuck away somewhere.

Do these parts look good?

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/B6NXqk

Just a Yea or Nay will do!

 

[Stux]

You should use NAS drives, rather than Green/Barracuda/Desktop drives.

Seagate NAS-HD/IronWolf, WD Red, etc.

The desktop drives aren't rated for 24/7 use, but more importantly, they don't have Time Limited Error Recovery, which means when you have a failing drive, it can cause your whole NAS to perform super terribly, and it could possibly take WEEKS to rebuild the drives, rather than days.

Of course, when using a desktop drive in a NAS, everything is fine until its not.

 

[enemy85]

from here it's possible to see that Gigabyte mobo should support ECC ram and have and intel LAN chipset, but is not specified which one...

 

[danb35]

The parts look adequate. In the US, especially on the budget end, it's often cheaper to go pre-built than to roll your own. The Dell T20, the Lenovo TS140, and ProLiant ML10 are all options of servers that can be bought new under US$300 (and in the case of the ML10, under US$200), and would seem to be a good fit for a budget FreeNAS box.