Building an ITX NAS

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Trigger911

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Hello,

First time project for a NAS build. I am wanting something small, That fits 4-6 drives and is decent on power consumption. I am willing to bend on parts and such but I don’t really want to go over 550 for this build. I do need a marginal power for transcoding duel core should do it fine. I am also wanting to mess with FreeNas a little as I like little hobbies such as this. I already had 4x 4tb WD Reds... I made the mistake of buying a drobo 800i (iscsi) that wont work independently.

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Are you planning on having a sata boot drive? If so, you need a mobo with 5 or 6 sata onboard or an additional controller card. Most of the intel 97 chipsets have only 4, but some of the intel 87 chipsets have 6. Or you can use an m.2 on the back side of that board, you'll just have to budget an extra $40-80 depending on size.
 
Adding to that, if your budget allows for an M.2 SSD, you are absolutely fine with the board you picked.
 
lol if it was a gamming machine or a used box I would go for it but I am just going for storage.
 
I also seen an asrock with the x99 with 5 sata and figured I could get a small ssd and hide it in the case. Not sure on the linux distro or just use a windows with work group shares with Plex.
 
I stuffed 5 3.5" drives (have room for 6) and a 2.5" ssd in my lian li tu100b. Just had to use a couple brackets and a flexatx psu.
 
As someone running an ITX NAS:

Silverstone DS380
ASRock C2750D4I

Done and done.
 
I built mine in Node 304. Three WD Reds inside It's very quiet so it's sitting in TV shelf now.
 
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