Mini ITX NAS

sniffsunder · 19 Nov 2010 at 21:42

I've been racking my brains recently and searching the net for ideas on a NAS build.

This is what I've selected so far:
Mobo - Asrock A330ION
Memory - 1GB or maybe 2GB DDR3 ??
HDD - 2 x WD 2TB SATAII Caviar Green
HDD - 1 x WD 160GB 2.5" Scorpio Blue for OS
Slimline DVD/RW
Case - Lian-li A01
OS - either WHS or Freenas ??

How does the above sound?

If I go for WHS what drivers do I use, I've read that XP drivers will probably work.

Any ideas or comments would be appreciated.

loaky · 20 Nov 2010 at 09:08

Or a normal version of windows, I would never use all the features of WHS or the other server OS's so I just use Windows 7 on mine.. Does anything like shares and streams media, all I need really. Depends on your needs I guess.

jamesfreddie · 28 Nov 2010 at 15:54

Use something like a 500GB hard drive for your O/S (Windows Home Sever) as WHS Uses the boot drive for swap space when copying data across from PC's on your network.

Gary* · 28 Nov 2010 at 16:28

Where are you planning on getting the A01 from? Or is this something you already have?

Deleted member 2277 · 28 Nov 2010 at 19:13

How about using unRaid?

sniffsunder · 29 Nov 2010 at 20:29

Gary* said:
Where are you planning on getting the A01 from? Or is this something you already have?

I purchased one from X-Case, they had some in the clearance section that they had found knocking around the warehouse, it's a really nice little case.

Gary* · 29 Nov 2010 at 20:38

sniffsunder said:
I purchased one from X-Case, they had some in the clearance section that they had found knocking around the warehouse, it's a really nice little case.

I'm jealous

sniffsunder · 29 Nov 2010 at 20:42

Deleted member 2277 said:
How about using unRaid?

Hm, just been reading about unRaid on the Lime Tech web page, it looks interesting, I might just try it out, it's free so how bad can it get?

sniffsunder · 29 Nov 2010 at 20:44

Gary* said:
I'm jealous

They still appear to have some in stock

Gary* · 29 Nov 2010 at 20:50

sniffsunder said:
They still appear to have some in stock

Yeah, in silver, I was wanting a black one and don't fancy spraying it myself

Deleted member 2277 · 29 Nov 2010 at 21:11

sniffsunder said:
Hm, just been reading about unRaid on the Lime Tech web page, it looks interesting, I might just try it out, it's free so how bad can it get?

I've been using it for about a week and so far so good.

Spooter · 29 Nov 2010 at 22:14

This is what im running

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18207224

Just finished the build today and its running beautifully.

CFI A9849 Mini-ITX NAS/Server Case - 2 Hot Swap Bays
Gigabyte GA-D525TUD, Intel NM10
2 x 2GB Hypertec DDR3 PC3-10666 (1333)
2 x Samsung SpinPoint F2 EcoGreen 1.5TB (Raid Drives)
1 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 EcoGreen 1TB (OS)
This point of this built was raid. Im running the two 1.5tb drives in raid 1 in case of any disk failures.

Windows 2008 R2 - Had a license plus i like playing around.
DNS\DHCP
PS3 Media Server

Virtual box
Ubuntu 10.04 server virtual machine running some my web apps.

Running like a treat at the moment, still plenty to setup on there though.

MTA99 · 2 Dec 2010 at 12:21

Deleted member 2277 said:
I've been using it for about a week and so far so good.

Been running it for months. Nothing to say really. Does its job, doesn't crash