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Coltblues

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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
NAS
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
700ish
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
US
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
Case, mobo, cpu, ram, drives, psu, flash drive
5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
probably not
6) Will you be overclocking?
doubt it
7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
n/a
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
christmas sales maybe, not sure, probably by the end of January.
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video (as a backup or main GPU)? UEFI? etc.
micro atx, RAID (will probably use a software RAID), SATA 6G/s, onboard nic and video. two nics would be nice.
10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
FreeNAS

I'm buying some of the same parts I used for my HTPC/Server. I don't have any type of backup in place in case the server fails so I'm building a NAS. I'm pretty set on buying the psu, memory and case. I'm really at odds at the mobo/cpu/gpu combo. I have no clue how that would run, if it's a deal or crap. The green drives look nice but it seems the people that have had issues with them were people running windows media server and letting the dirves spin up and down continously. I'm also going to put the OS on a flash drive not to waste the sata connections or drive bays. So heres the plan:

$130 Lian Li case
$120 mobo cpu combo with onboard gpu
$25 psu
$7 flash drive
$34 8GB of memory
3x $110 green sata 6GB/s 64MB cache HDDs

Comments please.
 
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Thermonuclear said:
It should be fast enough. It does not have RAID support in hardware, if that matters.
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Not really, I'm planning to use the software RAID utilities.

Also changed my mind about the drive. These have better reviews and have another year of warranty. I don't want to build a crappy backup system using crappy drives. Might as well save myself possible headaches by getting the better drive.
 
It should be fast enough but I'd honestly spring the cash for a faster CPU. Especially if you're planning on using RAID or ZFS with FreeNAS.
$49 - Intel Celeron G530 CPU
$100 - Asus P8H77-I Intel H77 mITX Motherboard
$31 - G.Skill Value Series F3-10600CL9S-8GBNT 8GB DDR3 1333 RAM
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Total: $180 shipped

Since your gaming PC and HTPC uses the same CPU socket, that'll make future troubleshooting a bit easier since you now have two independent ways of determining whether or not you have a defective motherboard or CPU.
 
Danny Bui said:
Since your gaming PC and HTPC uses the same CPU socket, that'll make future troubleshooting a bit easier since you now have two independent ways of determining whether or not you have a defective motherboard or CPU.
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I actually haven't had any type of hardware failure in years *knocks on wood* but I like the way you think. I swapped out the mobo combo for your suggestion. Thanks!
 
Note that RAM can and will downclock themselves to the highest speed supported by that motherboard or CPU. So you could use that DDR3 1333 RAM with that CPU without issue
 
That is true, and generally RAM speed doesn't matter once it hits 1333. I hadn't thought of the overhead of the software RAID. All though the QNAP box I've worked with uses an atom CPU... Given it seems to take a million years to turn on :(
 
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