So my sister wants a media set up, back up all of her devices and stream, pictures and all that kind of stuff. Long story she has a Budget of 400 with a little wiggle room. She wants to put it in her living room on her main TV and use it as a computer for basic stuff for school papers and stuff, media center and NAS. For the most part this is all basic stuff, but to do all in one, and keep it cheap and simple I need a little help. She is not super computer savoy so need to make it easy as possible for her and her significant other.... Here the requirements I would like suggestion on. 4 to 6 maybe 8tb of storage. I think 8gb or so of ram would be good. What would be the best way to have like a raid to have a back up of the back up and what about motherboard, processor ,case processor and PSU. Then OS, she seems to do alright on Linux but with her being in school windows might be the better call? Any input will be appreciated thank you for your time. In the US by the way.
I used an old desktop off a friend, added some good drives and run freenas. But there's literally endless ways to have a media machine. Look into craigslist or stuff like what's in Linus Tech tips "scrap wars" for the hardware.
Used is one way to go, and probably a pretty damn good route to go. My friends and I are considering selling a LGA 1156 for pretty cheap, and it isn't weak at all. But if you want to build a new rig here you go: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WsYWRB
6TB of HDD space, the cheapest set of RAM with the cheapest CPU I could get on FM2+ but a fairly good mobo if you want to upgrade it later on with more drives or a GPU. The WD Reds won't be the fastest drives, but they will be cool, quiet and reliable with no worrying about 24/7 uptime. It won't be gaming at any tolerable framerate, but I think it will do what you want it to. What I would personally do is load it up with Windows and use the network sharing thing, it is a little finicky, but when it works it is amazing, it avoids putting any load on the host PC and just streams the data to whatever is the client (not unlike many other solutions).
Thank yall, I just have a hard time building for others cause they normally have a small budget. I am lucky enough to have some disposable income for myself so I can spend a little bit. While I love my sisters she sometimes she gets to be expensive, being on a college students budgets one thing but she wanting something more as a luxury and stuff I have to draw the line and make her pay her way.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qZ7ChM
Probably fine, I don't know too much about building media servers though. It has 2 additional sata ports if needed and is power efficient.
Here are my 2 recommendations:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/b3GxMp
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD A8-7600 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($83.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88M EXTREME4+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($58.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 32GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I 802.11a/b/g/n/ac PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Other: RockStor OS ($0.00)
Total: $526.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-11 00:38 EDT-0400
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/TDgzcf
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor ($50.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI AM1I Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard ($31.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Pareema 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($42.49 @ Newegg)
Storage: A-Data Premier Pro SP600 32GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($39.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case ($30.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($26.99 @ Newegg)
Other: IO Crest 2 Port SATA III PCI-Express x1 Card ($14.99)
Other: RockStor OS ($0.00)
Total: $458.38
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-11 01:04 EDT-0400
Sorry for the late response... Thank y'all for the input... ended up spending a little over 400 but I think it will turn out well. I will post specs when I am in front of a computer, its hard enough typing on a phone this little bit lol.