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Hey everyone, while I have known about NAS's for quite a while, and in general would have liked to create one for myself, I have never really started digging into the details. And boy, are there details.
Simply put, my goal is to create a small server I can use for a few things (does not require much storage):
-As I work from home, I would like this to contain my work files, that I could easily access from my desktop and laptop to easily switch work places (does not need to be able to work on the same files at the simultaniously) (relatively small files, but it will contain many (10s if not 100s of thousands) files)
-Redundancy (for now, planning on just buying 2 HDDs and using 1 purely as backup, later if I may expand I could use 2 for the storage and 1 for the backup, incase 1 drive fails out of the 3?)
-Ability to run some custom scripts on it (I would like to have it possibly targz a certain directory with a password, which could then be uploaded to google drive/dropbox as an offsite backup, on a weekly basis)
-Possibly in the future a media server (mostly for music, perhaps a few movies as well) and/or a small minecraft server (within the household only, so a handful of players only)
For the future parts, I could do that when I plan on upgrading the systems hardware perhaps down the line.
I currently have an old rig, in a gaming tower, that I could possibly use to save some cost (fairly nice case with 8 hdd drive bays and plenty of cleanable dust filters and airflow), it also still contains some hardware:
-AMD FX-8120 (first eight core cpu)
-970 Extreme3
-2x 4GB Corsair DDR3 1333 MHz CL9 (CMV4GX3M1A1333C9)
-Radeon HD 6570 Club
-Chronos 120 GB SSD (very old I will probably just replace, unless I will need a seperate drive from the cache as boot drive, I suppose I could reformat and use this)
-Corsair TX550M (not from this build, from a different pc from late 2019 but has been replaced and collecting dust now)
If this would suffice, I was contemplating perhaps building it in there, and adding:
1x WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD, 2,5 SATA, 500 GB (€70) (cache/boot drive? if required seperate ones, I will just buy a different ssd (120 gb), or is 500gb for a mere cache drive overkill? (it was the smallest I could find of this type), and I read somewhere it worked well as a cache drive)
2x Seagate 4 TB IronWolf 3,5 inch hdd (5900 RPM, 64 MB cache, 180 TB/year, tot 180 MB/s), zilver (€100 each, 1 to use and 1 for redundancy)
Cost wise the 1TB ones are already 60eu and I couldn't really justify paying either 60 for 1TB or 80 for 2TB if 4TB costs 100, and I could potentially run out of physical space having to replace them in the future)
If the existing hardware is insufficient, my current desktop uses a 3700X, I was planning on upgrading that to a 5900X down the line since they are on the same socket.
I could repurpose the 3700X for the NAS, but then I would be required to buy a new mobo + ram again, so feel free to suggest some parts for me in that scenario!
Kind regards and thanks for the long read,
Alex
Simply put, my goal is to create a small server I can use for a few things (does not require much storage):
-As I work from home, I would like this to contain my work files, that I could easily access from my desktop and laptop to easily switch work places (does not need to be able to work on the same files at the simultaniously) (relatively small files, but it will contain many (10s if not 100s of thousands) files)
-Redundancy (for now, planning on just buying 2 HDDs and using 1 purely as backup, later if I may expand I could use 2 for the storage and 1 for the backup, incase 1 drive fails out of the 3?)
-Ability to run some custom scripts on it (I would like to have it possibly targz a certain directory with a password, which could then be uploaded to google drive/dropbox as an offsite backup, on a weekly basis)
-Possibly in the future a media server (mostly for music, perhaps a few movies as well) and/or a small minecraft server (within the household only, so a handful of players only)
For the future parts, I could do that when I plan on upgrading the systems hardware perhaps down the line.
I currently have an old rig, in a gaming tower, that I could possibly use to save some cost (fairly nice case with 8 hdd drive bays and plenty of cleanable dust filters and airflow), it also still contains some hardware:
-AMD FX-8120 (first eight core cpu)
-970 Extreme3
-2x 4GB Corsair DDR3 1333 MHz CL9 (CMV4GX3M1A1333C9)
-Radeon HD 6570 Club
-Chronos 120 GB SSD (very old I will probably just replace, unless I will need a seperate drive from the cache as boot drive, I suppose I could reformat and use this)
-Corsair TX550M (not from this build, from a different pc from late 2019 but has been replaced and collecting dust now)
If this would suffice, I was contemplating perhaps building it in there, and adding:
1x WD Red SA500 NAS SATA SSD, 2,5 SATA, 500 GB (€70) (cache/boot drive? if required seperate ones, I will just buy a different ssd (120 gb), or is 500gb for a mere cache drive overkill? (it was the smallest I could find of this type), and I read somewhere it worked well as a cache drive)
2x Seagate 4 TB IronWolf 3,5 inch hdd (5900 RPM, 64 MB cache, 180 TB/year, tot 180 MB/s), zilver (€100 each, 1 to use and 1 for redundancy)
Cost wise the 1TB ones are already 60eu and I couldn't really justify paying either 60 for 1TB or 80 for 2TB if 4TB costs 100, and I could potentially run out of physical space having to replace them in the future)
If the existing hardware is insufficient, my current desktop uses a 3700X, I was planning on upgrading that to a 5900X down the line since they are on the same socket.
I could repurpose the 3700X for the NAS, but then I would be required to buy a new mobo + ram again, so feel free to suggest some parts for me in that scenario!
Kind regards and thanks for the long read,
Alex