Hi! I've been looking around youtube and the forum for some information about building a NAS and I really like what FreeNAS can do.
I'm looking to make myself a NAS that would serve for file sharing and backup. I use two computers daily (a tower at my place and a surface I bring to class), currently I manually save from one computer to the other through a hard drive and SyncToy, which is really getting annoying. Ideally I would like to use the NAS as some sort of Dropbox, where when I'll have saved a file on one computer, it'll be saved on the NAS and then on the other computer. I think I saw a plugin that could do that, but if you could point me in the right direction that would be great!
Also, the NAS would be used as a Plex media server, on which there would probably be around 3-4 simultaneous streams (TV shows, movies), maybe more, at a time.
I was thinking of going with those parts :
CPU : Ryzen 3 2200G, for the included cooler, the computing power to be able to do what I want from it for the years to come, and to encourage AMD over Intel, it would also have the display properties for setup (if I understood correctly!)
RAM : I was thinking of going with 16Gb-3200 memory, fast for ryzen and enough for my needs?
Storage : This is the part I am least comfortable with. I'm thinking of going with 3 4Tb WD Red drives, to have 8Tb and redundancy (is there a RAID type that would support this setup?) as well as an SSD as a boot drive and cache. Any recommendations about the SSD would be greatly appreciated as I'm unsure as to what would be good for the build or if it would be overkill. Also, if I run out of space, how hard would it be to increase the pool by putting in more hard drives?
Case : I was thinking of taking a Fractal Design Node 304, looks sleek and has space for some more drives in the future if need be.
PSU : Would you have any recommendations of good reliable power supplies that would fit well in this case? I really like the EVGA Supernova series but fear they would be too big to fit the case.
Just a warning, I'm in Canada so I only get the shortend of the hardware stick!
Thank you very much for the great help!
I'm looking to make myself a NAS that would serve for file sharing and backup. I use two computers daily (a tower at my place and a surface I bring to class), currently I manually save from one computer to the other through a hard drive and SyncToy, which is really getting annoying. Ideally I would like to use the NAS as some sort of Dropbox, where when I'll have saved a file on one computer, it'll be saved on the NAS and then on the other computer. I think I saw a plugin that could do that, but if you could point me in the right direction that would be great!
Also, the NAS would be used as a Plex media server, on which there would probably be around 3-4 simultaneous streams (TV shows, movies), maybe more, at a time.
I was thinking of going with those parts :
CPU : Ryzen 3 2200G, for the included cooler, the computing power to be able to do what I want from it for the years to come, and to encourage AMD over Intel, it would also have the display properties for setup (if I understood correctly!)
RAM : I was thinking of going with 16Gb-3200 memory, fast for ryzen and enough for my needs?
Storage : This is the part I am least comfortable with. I'm thinking of going with 3 4Tb WD Red drives, to have 8Tb and redundancy (is there a RAID type that would support this setup?) as well as an SSD as a boot drive and cache. Any recommendations about the SSD would be greatly appreciated as I'm unsure as to what would be good for the build or if it would be overkill. Also, if I run out of space, how hard would it be to increase the pool by putting in more hard drives?
Case : I was thinking of taking a Fractal Design Node 304, looks sleek and has space for some more drives in the future if need be.
PSU : Would you have any recommendations of good reliable power supplies that would fit well in this case? I really like the EVGA Supernova series but fear they would be too big to fit the case.
Just a warning, I'm in Canada so I only get the shortend of the hardware stick!
Thank you very much for the great help!