Decided that I may as well post up my build - completed it on Monday past, basically I wanted a new storage medium, having 2 external hard drives was getting tedious as it was, so I had no inclination to add a third into the mix, started looking around at other areas and just became very interested in the idea of a nas, wasnt overly fussed on the price of 2-4 bay pre-built ones and so started to look into a D.I.Y. one (that and I may have just had an itch to build a pc and had no other excuse to do so lol).
After getting Freenas working on an old pc I decided to look into components for a low-powered build and I came up with :
Cpu: Intel G2030
MoBo : Asus P8H77-I
Ram : Crucial Ballistix 8gb (single stick) @1.35v
Hard Drive : Seagate 3tb Nas drive
Case : Bitfenix Prodigy
Pus : Corsair vx550 (had this spare)
O/S : Freenas (loaded on an 8gb sandisk orbit usb drive)
No real in progrees pictures (not a difficult task, screw down board, insert cpu and ram lol) but have the completed product :
wider angle
and the pretty case beside the dryer in the hall
Pretty pleased with it so far, freenas can be tricky at times but I'm getting the hang of it and nearly always seems to have very high RAM usage, so far I have installed minDlna so far but that was just to see if I could get a plugin to work, I'm looking into setting up transmission next.
Asfor the case - I like the look of it, good quality build,and I'm impressed with the th cable management, there's enough holes for you to feed most cables from one side to the other without having to go directly over the board, my fron panel connectors are all thread through the psu sectiona nd come up the other end etc.
After getting Freenas working on an old pc I decided to look into components for a low-powered build and I came up with :
Cpu: Intel G2030
MoBo : Asus P8H77-I
Ram : Crucial Ballistix 8gb (single stick) @1.35v
Hard Drive : Seagate 3tb Nas drive
Case : Bitfenix Prodigy
Pus : Corsair vx550 (had this spare)
O/S : Freenas (loaded on an 8gb sandisk orbit usb drive)
No real in progrees pictures (not a difficult task, screw down board, insert cpu and ram lol) but have the completed product :
wider angle
and the pretty case beside the dryer in the hall
Pretty pleased with it so far, freenas can be tricky at times but I'm getting the hang of it and nearly always seems to have very high RAM usage, so far I have installed minDlna so far but that was just to see if I could get a plugin to work, I'm looking into setting up transmission next.
Asfor the case - I like the look of it, good quality build,and I'm impressed with the th cable management, there's enough holes for you to feed most cables from one side to the other without having to go directly over the board, my fron panel connectors are all thread through the psu sectiona nd come up the other end etc.