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I wanted to join the NAS club for so long but it was always either bang for buck for prebuilts ($1k for 4 bays, with 4Gb RAM and the CPU is slower than my previ
by zeroq 10mo ago
I wanted to join the NAS club for so long but it was always either bang for buck for prebuilts ($1k for 4 bays, with 4Gb RAM and the CPU is slower than my previous phone?!) or lack of availability for 4+ SATA boards.
Last year I had aha moment when I learned about SAS boards.
My final build was:
- Jonsbo N3 case
- ITX PSU
- ASRock B550M/ITX
- Ryzen 5500GT
- LSI 9207-8i
- 16GB DDR4
Result - for ~$1k I have 8 bay NAS that's also strong HTPC and console capable of running games like Silksong with no sweat.
Before I learned about SAS cards my biggest limiter was number of SATA slots. If not for that card I would be looking at $600+ niche mobos.
But the biggest winner was 5500GT. I was looking at N300 for lower power consumption, but Ryzen draws 1W at idle and has APU capable of serious gaming (not 4k Elden Ring, but c'mon).
- SJetKaran 10mo agoWhat is Ryzen adding here towards the NAS part of this system? Or is it only for gaming?
- ffsm8 10mo agoNAS in this context is more about home server then an actual plain network attached storage. I usually call mine NAS too, despite technically using it more for selfhosting - and basically never mounting it's data volumes. I think this applies to almost everyone using them nowadays, which is also the reason why the pre built ones are less and less relevant - because they always have super conservative CPUs (which are more then sufficient for a NAS that's actually used as a plain network attached storage - but severely underperforming if the user wants to run services on it.)
- zeroq 10mo agoMain benefit of Ryzen is that previously I was aiming for something like Atom or N300 for low power consumption - now, with Ryzen I have CPU with 10x computing power, powerful integrated GPU, that idles at 1W, and I can do serious gaming with it.
- amy_petrik 10mo agohello I like terramaster if you're looking for budget. software is a bit potato (it's all there, and you can install apps, just 7-8/10 polished, not 10/10), hardware build quality is solid for 10 bays i like asus lockerstore, also two NVMes, times I've bought those, a bit north of 1000 i do not have affiliations or interests with either company, just a data hoarder that's within the last year so not sure if anything changed in the last few months in light of things
- sundar28 10mo agoGreat point. What drives did you end up getting.. and any issues w/ fans on the N3? (I'm considering something similar given the LSI 9300 with IT :)
- nuker 10mo ago> LSI 9207-8i Awesome! Now erase your Truenas, install XCP-ng, passthrough the LSI to the TrueNas VM :)