Old gaming Rig as a NAS/Server

Dogfood09

Dogfood09

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Hi Guys,

Just recently built a new gaming rig , and now im left with my old rig , i was toying with the idea of selling it , but i thought i may as well turn it in to a NAS/Server for all my media content to stream , below is what i have

ASUS Z170-A Mobo
Intel i7 6700K
16gb Corsair Dominator 3000MHZ
GTX 1080 GPU
Samsung 850evo 250gb SSD
Corsair RM 850w PSU
Corsair Hydro H110i GT Cooler

This is all housed in a NZXT H440 Razer Edition case, All i need to get is some Hard Drives , Any suggestions , ive never looked into home servers and NAS before so im a complete noob at this.

Thanks
 
I was thinking of getting a qnap , but just thought i have most of the components in my old rig anyway , do you think that is total overkill ?
 
That spec is overkill for a NAS, you could easily sell that as a mid to high end gaming PC depending on the screen resolution your playing at.

I would look at getting 4 bay NAS populated with 2 drives to start with which should give you room to grow once it starts to fill up.
 
Nothing wrong with the idea. I built my nas around my old gaming pc which was an amd phenom II x4. In your case, you would not need the gpu as you can use the igp. I had to upgrade mine recently as I needed more PCIe lanes to support a move to 10gig Ethernet. (Now running a 9600k) My nas is currently limited by the case to 12 drives and at present, I’m using 7. Using a proper pc gives me the flexibility to do more on it than just serve media and data. I frequently offload big encoding tasks that run overnight to it so I can turn off my desktop.
 
Having never used freenas, I can't comment. Because I'm using hardware raid, I've never needed any of the "NAS" based distributions of linux/BSD as they are designed for running software raid file systems like ZFS.
 
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