Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 22, 2018 Moderator Share Posted April 22, 2018 I have been looking at NAS devices lately. I see, they are rather expensive for 4+ bays. (need at least 4, but expansion is a good thing) I understand that NAS devices don't need that whole lot of power. Or CPU usage. Unless you are running plex or something. Just lotta RAM and HDD write/reads. So is there a way I can make my own? And save some money rather than the $300 Pre-Made NAS devices? i3, or maybe even a Celeron should do, right? ITX motherboard should do me well. Long as it has 4 SATA ports. I have spare RAM, max 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 and DDR4 500W PSU should do it. Passive cooling will be fine, as it will be down in the basement, so rather cool. Case, whatever I can pick up... I have 2x 3TB WD Blue and 2x 3TB WD Green HDDs. As I said above, can you get a $300-$400 custom made NAS? Software, I'll think about. (This all make sense? Am I thinking correctly? if not, ASK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Check this page: http://www.freenas.org goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 22, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted April 22, 2018 1 minute ago, Xenon said: Check this page: http://www.freenas.org Talking about headware, not software. I know FreeNAS, UNRAID, NAS4Free, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Raze Subscriber² Posted April 22, 2018 Subscriber² Share Posted April 22, 2018 12 minutes ago, Mindovermaster said: Talking about headware, not software. I know FreeNAS, UNRAID, NAS4Free, etc. Their forum has this info - https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?forums/will-it-freenas-freenas-build-discussion.70/ https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/my-low-power-freenas-proposal.63241/ Lots of info on building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 22, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted April 22, 2018 Was thinking of this board/cpu combo: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157728 I do have laptop RAM, too.. 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted April 22, 2018 Supervisor Share Posted April 22, 2018 Hello, I have the same motherboard, but am using it for testing software. I would think it would do fine as a NAS. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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