Build your own NAS?

stueng

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Hi, I am on the verge of buying a Synology DS411j but I thought I would just put a shout out to see what alternatives are around for a do-it-yourself solution

I am a linux user as well as a SABnzb, Sickbeard, Couchpotato, XBMC etc user. I would "hack" the synology to run these packages... with all the "hacking" required I am starting to wonder about just building the whole thing myself

Is anyone aware of a nice case out there that can house 4 X Sata gb/s disks along with motherboard, CPU etc? I'd like a solution of similar size, noise and power draw to an "off the shelf" NAS

thoughts?

Stu
 
Rroff your arguments are the exact same ones that I use when suggesting people stear clear from home made NAS.

I however like having an extremely complicated project to work on, everything you listed can be achieved manually

Also the synology is more feature rich than the QNAP, people sometimes load the synology firmware on them as a hack
 
I still haven't decided whether to do Synology or DIY yet but this looks really good

YOUR BASKET
3 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) £129.98 (£389.94)
1 x AMD A6-3670K 2.70GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3670WNGXBOX) £89.99
1 x Lian Li PC-Q08B USB3.0 Mini-ITX Case - Black £73.98
1 x Asus F1A75-M PRO AMD A75 (Socket FM1) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £71.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 430W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £51.98
1 x Corsair Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMV8GX3M2A1333C9) £34.99
Total : £726.38 (includes shipping : £11.25).



This motherboard can support up to 64GB RAM! This "NAS" would be able to run some VM's quite easily and I could put an XBMC client on it along with SABNZB, Sickbeard, Couchpotato etc

Supports up to 6 X 6GB/s SATA3 3.5 disks for a total potential capacity of 24TB, but a more sesible approach I think would be to configure RAID-Z and start with 3 X 3TB disks leaving expansion for 3 X 3TB or 3 X 4TB drives in the future if the price drops

I dont have a fan on there, any suggestions?
have I got anything wrong?
missing anything?

I havent checked to make sure the PSU fits yet
 
mrbell1984 said:
@stueng

^^ over kill for a NAS system.
Click to expand...

Indeed... I started out looking for a NAS but Im wondering what else is possible

I have a laptop running homeseer (winxp), a 2TB NAS (netgear) and a Zotac Zbox (xbmc + sab + sickbeard etc) all in the same cupboard at the moment.

This single box could replace all three of these devices and do all three jobs better

a simple NAS would cost £600 with 3 X 3TB disks with capacity to add more disks... so add another £150-£200 and instead of a "simple" NAS you get quad core, HD6000 GFX, 32GB RAM etc
 
I hate the microserver, except the price... who builds a "server" that doesn't support RAID 5...?

That bitfenix case is wicked, too tall for my shelf though its 40cm high compared to 27cm on the Lian Li

The Lian Li can support 6 internal 3.5" disks which is why I was looking for a board with 6 SATA 6gb/s connections
 
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