Hey everyone, I'm looking to build as affordable a NAS as possible, without compromising on basic performance or limiting the potential for future growth. My first NAS was a 4-bay Synology, which quickly became quite annoying after I realised the difficulties in upgrading in-place disks. I'd really my second NAS to have 8 bays at minimum, so I can start with ~4 drives and continue expanding from there.
In terms of NAS use, I mostly want to running a Plex server for LAN clients (not transcoded, just streamed), run a few other servers (e.g. Sonarr, rTorrent) and provide a local fileshare. It's just my roomies and I, so I think I should be able to get away with a fairly low-spec CPU and RAM. I'm leaning pretty strongly towards a rackmount chassis. Space is a bit of an issue for me, and I plan to build a custom set of drawers/8RU server rack to go under my desk. I know that a desktop chassis would be a little cheaper, but overall I think the slight expense would be worth it for me.
The main areas I'm not clear on are the CPU and motherboard. After a fair bit of research on my end, they seemed to be the best I could come up with while still meeting minimum requirements for an 8-bay system. The PSU seems like it may be overkill but I'm pretty unsure there too.
FWIW I'm in Canada, so far I've been checking NewEgg US for prices but I plan to dig deeper once I have a build finalised. Here's the part list I have so far:
Google Drive Spreadsheet
In terms of NAS use, I mostly want to running a Plex server for LAN clients (not transcoded, just streamed), run a few other servers (e.g. Sonarr, rTorrent) and provide a local fileshare. It's just my roomies and I, so I think I should be able to get away with a fairly low-spec CPU and RAM. I'm leaning pretty strongly towards a rackmount chassis. Space is a bit of an issue for me, and I plan to build a custom set of drawers/8RU server rack to go under my desk. I know that a desktop chassis would be a little cheaper, but overall I think the slight expense would be worth it for me.
The main areas I'm not clear on are the CPU and motherboard. After a fair bit of research on my end, they seemed to be the best I could come up with while still meeting minimum requirements for an 8-bay system. The PSU seems like it may be overkill but I'm pretty unsure there too.
FWIW I'm in Canada, so far I've been checking NewEgg US for prices but I plan to dig deeper once I have a build finalised. Here's the part list I have so far:
Google Drive Spreadsheet

