First post should always be the introduction post right?;)
Hello from Iowa.
Figured I'd get off my lazy bum and build a home NAS for general storage/sharing needs. I had an old Pentium laying around but when I went to use it, it blew smoke out the rear
I've seen deals on newegg for those purpose built home NAS units but I never paid attention to the price. I couldn't believe it when I went looking, they want from $200 to $500 for some of the most basic units (not including hard drives, 512mb of DDR2 ram, Atom processors, etc).
After some searching and considering I was able to put together a simple system $339.95 shipped. Specs are as follows:
Intel i3-4130
Asus H81M-k Motherboard
Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB DDR3 1600
Western Digital Green 2TB drive
Rosewill R363-M-BK case & 400w power supply
Definitely not a top end server but for my simple network hosting needs this machine is more than enough and it was a tad over the price for a decent diskless purpose built NAS unit.:)
Hello from Iowa.
Figured I'd get off my lazy bum and build a home NAS for general storage/sharing needs. I had an old Pentium laying around but when I went to use it, it blew smoke out the rear
I've seen deals on newegg for those purpose built home NAS units but I never paid attention to the price. I couldn't believe it when I went looking, they want from $200 to $500 for some of the most basic units (not including hard drives, 512mb of DDR2 ram, Atom processors, etc).
After some searching and considering I was able to put together a simple system $339.95 shipped. Specs are as follows:
Intel i3-4130
Asus H81M-k Motherboard
Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB DDR3 1600
Western Digital Green 2TB drive
Rosewill R363-M-BK case & 400w power supply
Definitely not a top end server but for my simple network hosting needs this machine is more than enough and it was a tad over the price for a decent diskless purpose built NAS unit.:)