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I've been looking into a NAS myself. I think self-built is the best bang for buck you're going to get and not have any annoying limitations. There's plenty of
by mschild 1y ago
I've been looking into a NAS myself.
I think self-built is the best bang for buck you're going to get and not have any annoying limitations.
There's plenty of motherboards with integrated CPUs (N100 same as cheaper Ugreen ones) for roughly 100. Buy a decent PSU and get an affordable case. For my configuration with a separate AMD CPU I'm looking at right around 400 Euros but I get total control.
And as far as software is concerned, setting up a modern OS like TrueNAS I find about the same difficulty as an integrated one from Ugreen.
- _cenw 1y agoJust keep in mind that Intel is keeping the total PCIe bandwidth out of those CPUs very constrained on purpose.
- cm2187 1y agoThe best solution in my opinion is to buy 5y old, used, server motherboards and CPUs (like AMD Epyc 3 right now). They are fairly cheap, it is durable products designed to work 24/7, and it comes with a huge number of PCIe lanes and extensibility. Same with enterprise SSDs for home usage, which is usually very little write. A used enterprise SSDs with a ton of endurance and very little writes is probably the best bang for your bucks. Wouldn't do that with hard drives though.
- donatzsky 1y agoPower consumption is at a completely different level, though. The N100 gives you pretty good performance with very low power draw.
- Dylan16807 1y agoArk says 9 lanes of PCIe 3.0? For a NAS, I don't think I'd need more than 1-2 lanes for any single device. That sounds fine.
- freeAgent 1y agoYeah, I assume most home users these days are never pushing a NAS beyond 1Gbe, and 99% of people who have faster networks are still probably just doing 2.5Gbe (still just talking about home use). This wouldn’t make that PCIe bandwidth sweat.
- mschild 1y agoAbsolutely. This particular setup is meant more for your bog-standard home NAS.