New build hardware sanity check

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Part List - Intel Core i5-12400, Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower - PCPartPicker

Part List - Intel Core i5-12400, Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower

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1-Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case
1-MSI MAG B660M MORTAR WIFI DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard
1-Intel Core i5-12400 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor
1-Silicon Power GAMING 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
1-Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
6-Western Digital Red Plus 8 TB 3.5" 5640 RPM Internal Hard Drive
1-EVGA SuperNOVA 650 GM 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply

The use case is to stop having 8TB external drives backing up family photos/videos, and docs, while storing video content we stream for homeschool and entertainment. I'd also make it a target for full laptop backups. Some of the photos are corrupted due to just sitting on the disk untouched for years. So as i understand ZFS is the answer here? I plan to just use Ethernet. I'm curious what kinda realworld speeds i'd expect with a setup like this. If it would help the m.2 could be boot and cache for writes while the disks spin up. I've also read some comments about having it cache the metadata for browsing the nas rather than wait on spin up just to browse the disk. I'm considering this build out vs something turn key like Synology, ect. I assume this DIY NAS will be much better bang for my buck.

Thanks in advance for your time in reviewing this.

 

[Morris]

For just storage you could use a lower power processor. If you want to virtualize or run plug-ins, then it's fine. Realize that even a NAS can fail and there should be backup for your family photos and any thing else you don't want to louse. Depending on how you lay our your disks you could get faster than Gigibit Ethernet throughput or even the ability to fill 10-GB Ethernet. Make shore to turn on periodic SMART tests and also scrubs.

Have fun!

Morris