Hi all
I'm about to build my first DIY home NAS. I already have an old Qnap TS-412 which is going to pass away...
A few days ago I was about to buy Qnap TS-451A, but I realized that I could have much better with about the same money. Probably I will run OMV in it, because FreeNAS, as far as I know, needs ECC support which would eventually push me too far away from the prefixed budget (different MB, CPU and RAM modules).
So the goal is to have a cheap home system for important data storage, home entertainment (audio/video flawless streaming, consider that all of my house is cat6-wired. I think I would use Plex server), and hopefully surveillance station in the future.
I was thinking to make a row of WD Red in Raid 5 configuration, and a single WD Purple for surveillance data.
The first question is: is a hardware raid controller required/suggested? I know it isn't for FreeNAS, which uses raidz and zfs file system. What about OMV and other OS (i.e. Nas4Free)?
However, the configuration I was thinking about is:
- Fractal Design Node 304 case
- Corsair CX450M psu
- Asrock J3710-ITX mb+cpu
- Crucial 16GB (2x8) ram
- Lexar USB3.0 pendrive 16GB for the o.s.
- WD Red and WD Purple for data
For a total cost of about 340 euros (about 380 american dollars) excluding HDDs.
What do you think about it? Do I miss anything? Is it enough for my purposes?
Thank you so much