BUILD 7200 RPM SATA disks vs. SAS

[legiosnrealm]

I know it's not a good choice, but can I use 7200 RPM SATA disks to build the NAS? The new build will be used for a small office file share and backup ... 6 users max with only half that accessing at the same time.

I was thinking of using x4 2TB Hard Drives and 8GB of RAM

Are there any boards I should use or stay away from?

Any help or opinion is much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[JaimieV]

You certainly can use SATA disks. SATA is not that bad, it's not like IDE.

8Gb will be okay, but 16gig would be better. ZFS loves RAM, and with several concurrent users it's worth stocking up.

What do you mean by "board"? Most computers will take 4xSATA directly nowadays, so you won't need an add-in SATA card. If you mean motherboard, there are plenty of build examples here in the hardware forum to pick from. I'd probably pick up an HP Microserver for this, but I'm lazy like that - and if you're using CIFS (Windows) networking you may want a faster CPU as it is single threaded and CPU-bound.