Nitemare15
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- Sep 29, 2014
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I need a mediaserver/NAS that needs to be low heat, and preferably low power. It also needs to be small in stature, preferably. I will be turning it off at night and while I'm at work so it won't be working 100% of the time. I want 3TB of mirrored storage. I've already decided on 2 x WD Red 3TB drives in RAID 1. It will be running Plex Media Server. It needs to be able to transcode 1080p h264 (MKV container) video very well, mostly just one stream at a time, however sometime it will need to be able to transcode two 1080p streams in tandem. It will be connected to a Gigabit R7000 Nighthawk. I do not want to spend more than $600 (I'm willing to go a bit above this if necessary and would make the build better) for everything including the storage. Which leaves me about $400 to build the main system.
So I did some tinkering on PC Part Picker. Here is what I've come up with so far. I'm not sure if it's overkill or what to be honest. I'd like to get it down in price a bit if possible.
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Nitemare15/saved/6dTZxr
CPU Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core $119.99
Motherboard Asus H97I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 $109.99
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 $44.99
Storage Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM $121.99
Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM $121.99
Case Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower $97.98
Power Supply Corsair 430W ATX12V $44.99
So to sum it up, I'll be running FreeNAS, and then Plex Media Server. I don't know if I'll be needing more RAM and processing power for what I'm trying to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
So I did some tinkering on PC Part Picker. Here is what I've come up with so far. I'm not sure if it's overkill or what to be honest. I'd like to get it down in price a bit if possible.
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Nitemare15/saved/6dTZxr
CPU Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core $119.99
Motherboard Asus H97I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 $109.99
Memory G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 $44.99
Storage Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM $121.99
Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM $121.99
Case Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower $97.98
Power Supply Corsair 430W ATX12V $44.99
So to sum it up, I'll be running FreeNAS, and then Plex Media Server. I don't know if I'll be needing more RAM and processing power for what I'm trying to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.