Help with NAS Components

[George Hincapie]

I want to build a NAS for use at home. I have the SATA drives and FreeNAS, but am not sure how best to go about it from a hardware perspective.

I was going to buy a HP G7 N54L 150W PS ProLiant Micro Server, but the cash back offer is gone.

I have some spare parts at home (AMD Phenom IIX4, 4 GB RAM and suitable full size ATX motherboard from a recent PC upgrade) and thought about just getting a cheap case, PSU and throwing them in, but that just seems like massive overkill.

Any suggestions?

 

[George Hincapie]

Come on! Someone must have done this surely?

 

[George Hincapie]

You need specify what you plan to use it for?

For example if it just as a file store then a low spec'd system will do. If you are planning on using it as a media server then you then a medium spec'd server will do.

For example, I run ESX on mine with a NAS4FREE VM, pfsense VM and trunkey domain controller VM. This runs ok on a x4 AMD processor with 8Gbytes of RAM.

I should think it would run OK. Your setup seems hugely over powered for the tasks it is being used for.

Mine is going to store files and pass media files on to my WDTV to watch on my TV in the lounge.