Hi all
I'm looking to move my Plex server over to a dedicated NAS so I can leave it on all the time in another room. It's currently running on my gaming PC;
Option 1: ~£150
Option 2: ~£400
Option 3: ~£700
What would you do?
I'm looking to move my Plex server over to a dedicated NAS so I can leave it on all the time in another room. It's currently running on my gaming PC;
- i5-2500k @ 4.4ghz (Corsair H50 AIO cooler)
- 16gb (4x4gb) DDR3 1600mhz
- Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (ATX)
- Gigabyte 970 GTX 4GB G1
- 500gb SSD (Windows 10 Pro x64, a few games and Plex Server)
- 2 x 3TB WD Green (Documents and media, not in RAID)
Option 1: ~£150
- Buy a second-hand HP MicroServer
- Will it be powerful enough and any suggestions for models?
Option 2: ~£400
- Put together a new cheapy ITX build for the NAS.
- How much would you recommend spending as a minimum and any parts suggestions?
Option 3: ~£700
- Re-purpose my above gaming PC into a NAS - use the CPU, RAM, PSU and HDD's and buy a new ITX case and compatible ITX motherboard (hard to find old 1155 ITX boards though) ~£130
- Build a new gaming PC ~ £570
- I guess my CPU/RAM are powerful enough as it's running fine now, but is this an inefficient use of decent parts? Gaming is still fine on this tbh..
What would you do?
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