Cheap NAS alternative to Synology DS1817?

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Could I built my own PC and it'll be cheaper? I would need a 10Gbp port, support for up to 8 10TB drives and hot-swapable. Probably with Freenas.

It'll only be used for storage of Xplane scenery to be shared between 5 PCs. So reads will be high but not writes.

• Intel Pentium G4400
  
• Asus - P10S WS (support for 8 SATA)
  
• Corsair - ValueSelect 16GB
  
• Intel X540-T1 10GbE
  
• Corsair HXi 1200W (support for 16 SATA)
  
• Logic Case SC-4320S

 

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Looks feasible - I don't know if you've thought about adding a decent RAID card with some cache on it, or and a nice UPS to use so you don't loose the array in case of power failure? (A summing you are going to RAID)

I would be looking into if a small SSD read and/or write cache might provide a substantial performance boost as well.

That PSU is overkill BTW - maybe with money saved use an i3 instead for a higher thread count and cache

The PSU is the cheapest one with enough SATA power I think? Or maybe just buying a Synology is easier!

 

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HP DL180 G6 (SE326M1) ?

12 Bays hot swap bays and can be had cheaper than that Logic Case on it's own.

I would need to be able to fit in my own 3.5" Seagate drives, a an Intel 10Gbpe NIC, would that be possible?