Build a NAS box cheap

hey everyone this is Richard here talking about anez that I built and potentially you could build if you're a diyer or someone who's delved into a computer and loaded Windows you're pretty much all sort of operating system this is really good good for you if you're a person that sort of has never touched a PC I never opened even a PC then it's probably best that you get a sort of pre-built Nas but saying that give it a go if you want it's entirely up to you if you've got a spear PC around then it's all the cheaper so the more stuff that you have then the cheaper obviously it is to build this particular Nas I had pretty much all the parts so really cost me the case and the power supply and a couple of extra parts which was very minimal sort of under 400 bucks pretty much it cost me New Zealand which is a still considering I've got eight sort of drives available to actually put in to it so here we go so let's get started this is the case that I particularly chose there's a lot of varied reasons for it but I'll just go into some other things one it's a very steady case so it doesn't bend it doesn't think it's quite nice to look at it's a base for a start and you can put a Micro ATX motherboard into it which is really ideal and there's a lot of room for expansion which is Rarity on some of these cases so let's get to it so this is as you can see the 8B hot swap USB 3 which is awesome comes with all the cables the connections that you would ever need as you can see there's quite a nice airflow so this goes two fans go straight out into the hard drives themselves and out the front which is awesome it has all SATA cables the USB 3 power connections all the LEDs for the front with this you can actually your motherboard goes into here you've got four expansion slots for uh Pizza Express or or PCI cards may remember their LC connection so they're half height as you can see here you need a power supply for this which is fairly simple I will put a link in below just letting you know what one I purchased but you're obviously optional on what type of power supply you want to get as you can see you can put a two and a half inch hard drive and an extra hard drive in here if you want to as you can see the airflow is quite nice in there so you can and I'll put all the cables and Connections in there but they flow is quite nice like what I said before as you can see it's quite sturdy it's quite well built comes in nice packaging and it's just an overall case what I do like about this too is each hard drive actually lets you know when it's active this is one light telling that it's on and the R1 activity on the hard drive so each hard drive is independent on the lights at the front so you know which one's actually active or got problems so this is where I got it from AliExpress I'll share a link on below but do shop around because you can get the shipping obviously a lot cheaper so this was about 165 um for about 300 to to send it and about I think was about extra 50 bucks for the power supply so around you know 350 400 bucks I pretty much got the case and plow power supply I know that sounds a lot for a case but considering you grenade base it's actually a pretty good deal so the next thing is obviously getting into how I built this machine and how I and some of the thought processors in it first off is the technical specs that I currently have in my machine So currently on the eight Bays that I have five of the bays are for storage and tour a hot swap the connections like I said to before a USB 3 power and reset the motherboard is an i5 16 gigs of RAM M2 card here I have a hardware raid card with a completely optional the in network card and a SSD card obviously the power supply is additional to the case and a special Ray controller memory card additional to that for our Express yeah this is a temperature control fan unit I've got two of these because of the size of the fans and that is controls the variable speeds on the fan at the back so it's not so it only runs at a percentage of what it does unless it needs additional heat to be cooled down and this is done through pressing this button you can customize the requirements as you can see in my particular scenario I've got SAS controllers which are four ports in each one and as you can see the ribbon goes to that module and that's pretty much all the technical specs now I'll tell you the reasonings behind them at my next part now a lot of you wanted to know on how I set my machine up so basically I I have seven drives five of the drives are used for storage and two of them a hot swap if you use a raid calculator please use a raid calculator and they'll give you an indicational you know how much space you actually will achieve because the higher the rate the less data that you have and definitely think about a hot swap I know it's a drive that doesn't get used but it usually saves you bacon later on so currently I've got a hardware raid card like I said I'm sorry I'll get into that so it has two SAS ports or you can have two solder depending on the red card buying the support both but the um there are cables are different for Saturn's sets so I've got both so because I'm running SAS drives I'm running SAS controllers and basically each Port each Port has um four connections so I'm able to run all the a ports completely run off the hardware grade card um benefits a raid card pretty much rebuilds you can hot swap the drives um if there's a drive failure it will tell you what drives failed you can take the drive out put the drive in it automatically rebuilds pretty much the a lot of the air makes it automated to to what their normal server would be so if you've worked on a server you know if you've got a drought let you know which drive it's spelled take the hard drive out put the new one and it automatically rebuilds it gives that ability in the desktop environment and a low-cost environment if you've got The Right Guard yourself and you can pick them up on AliExpress for a pretty damn cheap 50 40 50 bucks if that's the way you want to go but I mean most motherboards have sort of six ports or sort of some of them have eight ports so potentially you may have a computer that's already got all the ports that you need and you don't have to spend anything um yeah there is ability to run M2 cards and have additional SATA ports through that too so and that's quite a cheap 30 40 dollar sort of scenario if you don't have enough ports and you want to run a full eight ports so you you've got a lot of customization just remember you know don't go overboard you but pretty much just have to get a basic machine it can be an I3 with four gigs of RAM it just really depends on what you want to do with it if you're on a runner Runners you don't actually need that much because just remember your high-end Nas is core quad core with four gigs of RAM so any you know anything you put in there it's probably 10 times faster than what they've got in their ones so yeah and like I say if you do want to upgrade or whatever or you want to use it for another task all you have to do is just upgrade the hardware when it suits

Channel: Richard Lowe

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Keywords: NAS, DIY, CHEAP, EASY

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Length: 9min 19sec (559 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 31 2023