Hi everyone,
I'm building my first NAS ever and would appreciate some thoughts from some more experienced people.
The idea is to keep it small and simple, but with room to upgrade it if the need comes.
It will first have 5x 2TB (or 3TB, not sure yet) and serve as a fileserver (mostly not important data, and the important part will be cold backed up), media center (Plex) and torrent download (Transmission).
Motherboard: ASRock E3C224D2I (or her sister C226, depending on availability/price, ~$200)
Any thoughts are welcome, but here are some questions I still have:
1. Is everything compatible and FreeNAS-compliant?
2. Is it possible to improve the power consumption? (I'm guessing with another PSU, but I don't know how much watts I need and which brand is ok).
3. Can I save money on the CPU?
Thanks!
Aurélien
I'm building my first NAS ever and would appreciate some thoughts from some more experienced people.
The idea is to keep it small and simple, but with room to upgrade it if the need comes.
It will first have 5x 2TB (or 3TB, not sure yet) and serve as a fileserver (mostly not important data, and the important part will be cold backed up), media center (Plex) and torrent download (Transmission).
Motherboard: ASRock E3C224D2I (or her sister C226, depending on availability/price, ~$200)
The only Mini-ITX which have 6 SATA and support ECC, period. The PCI slot is a big plus, if I ever need to make it bigger.
CPU: Pentium G3220 ($60)I don't think I need any special; if you think I can save money here, I'd be happy to hear it.
RAM: Kingston KVR16E11/4 ($60)4GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC. I know 2 sticks are better than 1, but I don't want to have to buy 2 new sticks if I want to upgrade the RAM.
PSU: Antec EA-380 ($60)Not sure what I'm doing here... I would really appreciate some hindsight!
Case: Lian Li PC-Q25 ($120)It will lay in my living room, so I need something pretty enough.
Even though I live in Japan, I converted in dollar for your reference, so the pricing may be a little different from USAny thoughts are welcome, but here are some questions I still have:
1. Is everything compatible and FreeNAS-compliant?
2. Is it possible to improve the power consumption? (I'm guessing with another PSU, but I don't know how much watts I need and which brand is ok).
3. Can I save money on the CPU?
Thanks!
Aurélien