Hello I'm looking to make a home file server for storing stuff documents, videos, and backing up my computer's to I don't have a set budget right now for the partlist but if you can keep it as inexpensive as possible max budget of $400 to $500 and if you can suggest any software to go along with it that would be something not too hard to learn how to use
How about a freenas box? Would you be open to that?
(There's a pun in there by the way)
Well that depends, are you going to buy ECC for file integrity?
Do you care about power consumption?
power consumption has to be as low as possible because my family member's who own the house I currently live in will be pretty angry if they saw a sudden spike in their power bill
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/J6Br6X
if you dont want a freenas box
or you could buy something like this used and add new drives.
$500 may be cutting it too tight, although maybe not so much if you use an AMD FX CPU or a used/refurbished Xeon like some people here have been doing here lately. I came up with this solution:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/GW98Yr
This solution is far from the best probably.
The big catch is it's gonna cost extra to add extra storage aside from that SSD, unless you swap it out with a HDD.
Another thing is that the R5 230 may be crappy, but only uses 19W and serves this purpose nicely with the Xeon since the Xeons have no Integrated graphics.
There is no iGPU on the processor, so it needs a dGPU (although it can be a crappy ass one), other than that, this combination works better for the money, plus actual storage.
I think that should be plenty possible. With a freenas box get whatever the fuck the skylake Pentium sku (I don't memorize them all) and look for a cheap mb to go with if.
If you want ecc (which is highly recommended but more expensive) a cheap xeon low end off eBay/Craigslist might be a good idea. Then if you are extremely concerned about power get a gold rated psu with not much more wattage then what you need.
I would supply a part list but I'm on my phone.
Edit: I'm dissapointed that no-one liked my pun. I thought it was clever.
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Then go for like an AM1 NAS or something
There is an AM1 board that can use ECC """Apparently""" but you gotta look into that more if you want to try it
You could either run this as separate drives, or make them RAID1, considering you aren't using ECC, ya might as well just run them as separate drives and keep your storage space
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/byx9JV
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/byx9JV/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor ($34.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard ($53.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($57.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Red 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($86.96 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Red 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($86.96 @ Amazon)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $417.76
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-10 23:55 EDT-0400
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Also if you want to care a little about data integrity with 2TBs worth of storage, and never plan to upgrade you could do like a RAID 5 with 3 1TB drives for a bit more money, I'd maybe just live dangerously and keep the 4TBs of storage above and add another 2TB drive when you can for RAID 5, not sure how you'd save all your data to reupload it after rebuilding though
Although I guess running RAID 5 without a hardware controller would be questionable, not that it matters much with ZFS/FreeNAS
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/jc4NQV
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/jc4NQV/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor ($34.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard ($53.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($57.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($60.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($60.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($60.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $426.51
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-11 00:01 EDT-0400
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Also you need a battery back up whenever you can afford one
I'm also unsure how motherboard specific FreeNAS is when it comes to RAID if you want to use it at all, I would imagine you could run software raid on anything
Spending way too much on the CPU there man
Gotta have that ECC memory man (jk, it was a terrible combo, doesn't even come with storage, that ECC support wasn't worth apparently.)
Thats going to sound like 10 jet engines having an orgy in the middle of a dubstep concert.
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How much storage you want OP? I got a dual opteron 6276, mobo, 1U 32GB DDR3 ECC for $305. MISC has cost me about $50. Drives are 4 x 8TB WD Red for 32TB pre-RAID. Drives would come to $1000 total for this setup. This setup will also sound like
but it's more powerful than that Tyan 2U.
where can i find a video of this. i heard of rule 34 but this is ridiculous.
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Heres a list
Comes out to around 500
Has ECC too.
If you need more storage up the drive size
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Type|Item|Price
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CPU | Intel Celeron G3900 2.8GHz Dual-Core Processor | $53.79 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler | Cooler Master GeminII S524 Ver 2 65.0 CFM CPU Cooler | $37.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-X150M-PLUS WS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard | $79.17 @ Amazon
Memory | Kingston ValueRAM 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory | $41.99 @ Newegg
Storage | Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive | $60.89 @ OutletPC
Storage | Western Digital Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive | $60.89 @ OutletPC
Video Card | XFX Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card | $27.99 @ SuperBiiz
Case | Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case | $59.97 @ Amazon
Power Supply | EVGA 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply | $74.49 @ SuperBiiz
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $497.17
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-11 14:11 EDT-0400 |