Hey everyone, I've been looking to do a NAS build for more than a year now and have slowly cycled through all the OS options before finally settling on OMV. I have a few questions about my build and compatibility since I just came out of the super paranoid world of Freenas. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Current Budget - ~$600
Preferred Budget - ~$500
Current Build
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($71.98 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($81.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Low Voltage Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($120.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($120.99 @ Newegg)
Storage:*ALREADY OWN* Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Storage:*ALREADY OWN* Laptop drive out of old Macbook Pro for primary OS install
Case: Fractal Design Define Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($100.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series Fanless 460W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular Fanless ATX Power Supply ($125.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $682.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Goals For the Build
The main intention for this box is to be a plex media server. I am hoping to not do a lot of transcoding, but I would like to give myself the wiggle room to do it when needed. My intention is to run RAID5 with WD Red 3TBx3 holding all the plex media and then probably a single 500GB drive I have laying around for some music and photo backups. Nothing on the server will be irreplaceable hence my move away from +$1000 Freenas build. I'm looking for a setup that will be quiet since it will be in my living room and not use a ton of power most of the time so I can just leave it up and running.
Questions
1. Am I going to have any hardware compatibility issues with OMV? Being Debian instead of FreeBSD based seems to remove most of those kinds of issues.
2. Is there anything I can do to bring the price down without hurting my performance significantly or ability to add hard drives in the future? A power supply that would be cheaper would be great, but I'm not sure about the added noise of a fan and having enough sata connections.
3. Am I over thinking my performance requirements and I should toss this out and just go for like a N54L since with the hard drives that would be less than $400?
Any other advice you have would be greatly appreciated.