1st Timer NAS setup - Any Suggestions?

[slozomby]

@slozomby has a great AMD build up there that will work excellent! Might not be as power efficient as an Intel build and only having 1 HDD are the worst I could say for it... and really AMD is great for budget stuff and it's perfect for this application. Also I would recommend 2 hard drives in a RAID 1, only because I'm a sucker for redundancy and that way if one hard drive fails, you don't lose all your data. Plus anything can run RAID1, hardware or software. You really shouldn't notice any performance issues while streaming and have a peace of mind. Also that AMD processor should be more powerful than the quad core Celeron I posted above...but the SoC is more power efficient. Depends on your needs for sure!

i should have covered the lack of a second hard drive.
that extra drive falls into the raid vs backup problem. i'd actually recommend an external drive to back the data up before adding in a second drive for raid redundancy.

thanks for reminding me.


the build is more for htpc goodness with shared storage as a secondary. rather than as a dedicated storage server with media features slapped in. for a dedicated storage server with plex type services the soc systems are great.

 

[alucasa]

the build is more for htpc goodness with shared storage as a secondary. rather than as a dedicated storage server with media features slapped in. for a dedicated storage server with plex type services the soc systems are great.

The line is thin though, and I don't think OP's mind is made up 100% yet.

 

[the_analyst]

I am fine with SoC. People have problems with it because they tend to have their expectation way up there. As long as one knows what to expect from sub 15w TDP CPU (or even 7w TDP), those embedded motherboards with soldiered CPU are often the wonders of low power rigs.

2.5inch HDD goes up to 4TB now but with 15mm height. I transited from 3.5 to 2.5 inch HDD about 3 years ago as I was trying to build smaller and smaller rigs. I currently own about 10 2..5 inch HDDs now. Only one of them is 4TB though. Rest are 2TB /1TB ones. Out of those, Ive one failure so far which Seagate replaced promptly.

I am fine with being limited to 4TB per drive because, the bigger a drive gets, you receive more damage from a drive failure. Try imagining replacing data on 8TB HDD. What a pain. So, I tend to have many smaller drives and backup of those drives which is why I have two machines dedicated to data.

P.S. contrary to popular belief, my porn collection is less than 1TB.

LOL, more, smaller drives does make more since to me. good point