Selfbuild NAS with FreeNAS

[PrincePaul]

Hey Guy's,

I want to show you a cheap variant of a powerful NAS
I finished a few weeks before:

CPU: Intel Celeron G540 ~40€



Mainboard: ASRock H77 Pro4-M (mATX) ~80€
+ 4 RAM Slots to support 32GB Ram
+ 4x Sata III & 4x Sata II






RAM: 2x 4Gb 1333MHz DDR3 ADATA ~35€
(the cpu supports only 1066 but 1333 is cheaper ;) )



HDD: I bought 2x 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green, but I rekommended the Caviar Red because they are specially designed for a NAS (Green= ~100€ 2 years warranty; Red= ~120€ 3 years warranty)
(I unfortunately discovered it only too late)



Powersupply: a normal 350 Watt power unit
(still found in the basement)

80 Watt picoPSU (~ 30€) would have been better but I saved the money :D


Case: I built my own box
in my case it's a cube of aluminum
(300mm x 300mm x 300mm)





OS: I use FreeNAS 8.3.0 BETA 2 with minidlna on a 8GB USB Stick and it works perfekt
about 100MB/s read and write
ZFS Filesystem and NO raid
because I bought only 2 HDD´s

power consumption: 40 Watt because of the old power supply

 

[PrincePaul]

and now with new FAN´s

ultra silent and with bionic design

 

[andoy31]

Cool enclosure and design!

 

[PrincePaul]

Thx ;)

an it´s cheap

 

[PrincePaul]

For people who don´t have the opportunity to build a housing itself, I recommend the Lian Li PC-V354B (~ 130€)

+ 7x 3.5" bays
+ 245x320x420mm
+ design

optional -> soundproof Version of this case (~ 170€)

 

[chesbrougha]

For people who don´t have the opportunity to build a housing itself, I recommend the Lian Li PC-V354B (~ 130€)

+ 7x 3.5" bays
+ 245x320x420mm
+ design

optional -> soundproof Version of this case (~ 170€)

Am I correct in that this mobo support 4 total drives

 

[PrincePaul]

No, it support 4 drives in 2,5" bay but normal HDDs must installed in the 3,5" bay
and the Case has 7 of them

and the Mainboard support 8 HDD´s 4x Sata III und 4x Sata II

 

[PrincePaul]

Little Update:

My NAS have new RAM ;)

G.Skill Ripjaw 2x 8GB 1333MHz CL9 ~ 60€

 

[PrincePaul]

Today:


more hdd space :p

+3x 2TB WD Red WD20EFRX

 

[PrincePaul]

In the new forum design the picture upload is disabled so if you wanna see all the pictures from my NAS build
than look in my blog ->Projekte -> NAS Al Cube or click here.

Edit: yeah... I can upload pictures ;)

 

[Nindustries]

Thanks for sharing! Cool to see a custom chassis