It’s time to put together a slightly stronger DIY NAS so I need your help in choosing the components.
The first dilemma is to buy an Asrock J4125-itx or Asrock J5040-itx motherboard.
I don't need any video transcoding, but a slightly stronger NAS with a larger number of running docker containers.
I think that the Asrock J4125-itx is enough for my needs, and it is about 25% cheaper.
For a start, I plan to buy 8 GB of RAM, and over time, if necessary, add another 8 GB of RAM. Both boards have space for two memory modules.
Each board has 4 SATA3 ports, two of which are Asmedia, so I'm wondering if this is a problem or do they work most normally?
My biggest doubt is about the power supply.
Buy some SFX power supply or buy some quality picoPSU?
The desire is to assemble a silent NAS so I’m not sure how the SFX power supply fits into that? As far as I can see, some SFX power supplies up to 30% of the load work in silent mode, and that for a 450W power supply would be around 150W in silent mode, which is more than enough for my NAS.
I know it would be easiest to buy a ready-made solution such as a Qnap or some other NAS on which I can install OMV, but I think the DIY variant offers me more options, and I am also aware that it will cost me something more in the end.