My NAS build

    Looking to build my first NAS. Trying to keep the cost down.
    Here is what I was thinking.


    Case Fractal Design Node 304
    Mother Board ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+
    CPU AMD A4-6300
    MEMORY CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (2X4 1600 Crucial RAM)
    PSU Rosewill CAPSTONE-450 450W
    DRIVES Western Digital WD Green WD20EZRX 2TB X6
    SSD Kingston SSD Now mS200 mSATA 30GB


    This motherboard has 6 SATA 3 connectors and 1 msata. The SSD has Trim enabled and I was thinking on putting the OS there.

    Hi John,
    I've got the Fractal Design Node 804 and it was difficult to get my 4 disks (plus a SSD) inside and connected.
    You want 6 disks inside the Node 304, better go for the Node 804, nearly the same price.
    To keep the costs down I would go for 3 TB or even 4 TB drives (look at the price per GB)


    Cheers,
    Thomas

    I have seen some Youtube videos of NAS builds with the Node 304 and looks fine for 6 3.5 drives. There are 3 dual mounting cages at the top of the case.
    The SSD will go on the Msata port on the Motherboard so doesn't need to be mounted.


    As for the drive size I have seem many reports of the 3 TB and Higher Drives having major quality issues. Lots of reports of bad drives after a short period of time etc.


    Also with Raid 5 the more drives you have the better the performance.


    I have 2 2TB drives in my current desktop which is on 24/7 for over 4 years.

    Lol. I am actually changing this up a bit. The motherboard has a crappy network interface. So going to change it to an Intel based board and a has well celeron cpu. So Intel onboard nic.
    Drop 1 if the 2 tb drives and msata SSD for a 2.5 sata ssd.

    mmmmmmmhh I would say it's a good plan...
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    - ASROCK FM2A88X-ITX+ (SATAIII (6Gb/s) x6 (for the DATA), mSATA x1 (for the OS))
    - AMD A6 7400K 3.5GHz
    - Corsair 2Go DDR3 1333MHz C9 (x2)
    - Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
    - COOLER MASTER G450M (80+ bronze)
    - WD Red 2To 64Mo 3.5" SATAIII (6Gb/s)
    - 32 Go SSD mSATA KingSpec Half-Size Solid State
    - Fractal Design Node 304 black (HDD 3.5" x6)
    - RAID 5 XFS
    - OMV 4.1.35-1 Arrakis

    I have ordered the following. Parts are starting to arrive.
    ASUS H87I-PLUS LGA 1150 Intel H87
    Intel Celeron G1840 Haswell Dual-Core 2.8GHz
    CORSAIR Vengeance LP 8GB (2 x 4GB)
    60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (For OS)
    Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D Green 380W
    Western Digital WD Green WD30EZRX 3TB X3
    Fractal Design Node 304


    This board has 6 SATA 3 connectors. I have room to put 2 More Drives in for expansion.

    Hi,


    I would make 3 remarks for this good build :
    - 1 SATA port is used for the SSD, it's a shame when you can have 6 HDDs in that box...
    - 8Gb RAM is far more than expected
    - WD green may not be the one I chose


    Nevertheless, it's your choice and it's a great build, you can rock on OMV quite fastly now !!

    - ASROCK FM2A88X-ITX+ (SATAIII (6Gb/s) x6 (for the DATA), mSATA x1 (for the OS))
    - AMD A6 7400K 3.5GHz
    - Corsair 2Go DDR3 1333MHz C9 (x2)
    - Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
    - COOLER MASTER G450M (80+ bronze)
    - WD Red 2To 64Mo 3.5" SATAIII (6Gb/s)
    - 32 Go SSD mSATA KingSpec Half-Size Solid State
    - Fractal Design Node 304 black (HDD 3.5" x6)
    - RAID 5 XFS
    - OMV 4.1.35-1 Arrakis

    And the question is :


    Are you happy with it and the new OMV world that reaches out to you? :):):)

    - ASROCK FM2A88X-ITX+ (SATAIII (6Gb/s) x6 (for the DATA), mSATA x1 (for the OS))
    - AMD A6 7400K 3.5GHz
    - Corsair 2Go DDR3 1333MHz C9 (x2)
    - Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
    - COOLER MASTER G450M (80+ bronze)
    - WD Red 2To 64Mo 3.5" SATAIII (6Gb/s)
    - 32 Go SSD mSATA KingSpec Half-Size Solid State
    - Fractal Design Node 304 black (HDD 3.5" x6)
    - RAID 5 XFS
    - OMV 4.1.35-1 Arrakis

    It is great. Got all my machines doing Time Machine Backups to the NAS. I have all my Media files loaded and being Served up by Plex Media Server and using the Transmission client to download.


    This is a great project. Was so easy to setup.

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