| ▲ | watermelon0 2 hours ago | |
I've been thinking about building my own NAS as well. Mind sharing how much did you pay for those hard drives, and what motherboard did you choose? | ||
| ▲ | conradev an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
https://diskprices.com/ is great for this You have SATA or SAS to pick from. The CPU requirements for a storage server are not high. On a typical ATX board you have motherboard SATA and can put SAS controllers in the spare PCIe slots. My first "NAS" was two 22TB hard drives in a ZFS pool on my motherboard SATA | ||
| ▲ | Confiks 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
It was €329 per hard drive (through a reputable store), and I chose the ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 mATX motherboard combined with a Ryzen 5 8500G. Stock CPU cooler, replaced the Jonsbo case fans with Arctic P12 Pro PST LN. I only slightly regret the PSU (MSI MAG A650GL), which could be quieter. Not that it's very noisy, and it's a great PSU otherwise, but I should've chosen one that just shuts the fan down at low power usage. | ||