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Hello. I’m looking to build a NAS, and i’m looking for some inputs for the HW I have found.

These are the things I care about.

  • HW transcoding on Jellyfin.
  • Small size
  • 2.5 gbit LAN
  • Atleast 4 HDDs.
  • Low wattage.
  • Okey performance.

This is the things I will use it for:

  • Backup Borg backup from VMs on other host, and laptops.
  • Jellyfin. I want to be able to transcode 4k to 1080p on the fly. Atleast 2 streams as one.
  • Probably run Truenas scale.

I’m thinking about running 4 16TB disks in RAIDZ1, with 2x optane m.2 disks for caching. Cheap sata ssd for boot drive.

| Component   | model                      |  NOK  |
|-------------|----------------------------|-------|
| case        | JONSBO N2                  |  1000 |
| Motherboard | Topton N6005               |  2000 |
| PSU         | Corsair SF750 Platinum     |  2000 |
| Optane      | optane ssd p1600x 58/118GB |  1400 |
| Memory      | 64GB corsair 2933 2x32GB   |  1750 |
| Disks       | Seagate Exos 16TB x4       | 12120 |
| Everything  | NAS                        | 20270 |

Is there anything I’m missing, or something you would change?

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N6005 only supports 16Gb of RAM, the motherboard is likely not standard ITX.

I’m not sure about what you mean by performance but N6005 is quite slow

PSU is overkill, a sub 500W will do just fine

I would look into Toshiba’s MG08/MG09 series over the Exos

Optane’s are way overkill, Samsung 970 Evo will do just fine

You probably need to look into i3 CPUs or better to satisfy all your requirements

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Thanks for the well informed reply. I found a used system on finn.no (local marketplace), and went for it instead…

Why would you go for Toshiba MG08 and 09 instead of Exos? And what about Toshiba MG10?

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So, ~8k budget for a NAS? If you can increase that to ~10k, you can get something that is both upgradable and run circles around the N6005:

NAS Build

Type Item Price
CPU Intel Core i3-13100 kr1840.00
Motherboard ASRock Z690M-ITX/ax NOK 2636.00
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x32 GB DDR4-3200 CL16 NOK 1743.00
Storage ADATA Swordfish 250GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 NOK 382.00
Case Jonsbo N2 NOK 999.00
Power Supply SeaSonic FOCUS SGX 500W NOK 1596.00
Custom Elprico m.2 to 6xSATA3.0 RAID Adapter Card NOK 458.00
Total kr9654.00

If you need a BIG uplift just get one of these babies and 2 Samsung 980:

And, of course, if you want performance over storage, do yourself a favor and go all out m.2 with an Asustor, base unit of 12 drives is around 10k NOK and SSDs are now roughly 4 TB for 2500 NOK e.g. 5x4TB drives for roughly 12k:

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They’re usually cheaper and Toshiba tends to not screw with SMART data a lot less than Seagate.
MG10s are fine too depending on what size you need, MG08/09 usually have a better price/GB ratio though…