I'm looking to making a basic NAS for offsite backups. Something simple that I can leave at someone else's house and use it as backup for the NAS I keep at home. (They could also do the same with me and we'd be colo NAS buddies )
Anyways, I already have one of the Synology boxes with a few drives, but I want to try out FreeNAS/napp-it or one of the other roll your own distributions with off the shelf hardware.
I'm currently thinking something along these guidelines:
- No need for resource intensive processing (VMs not required)
- Simple. Passively cooled. Few moving parts aside from the drives.
- Inexpensive but not barebones cheap, ~$300 for the machine (no drives) seems a reasonable target, upwards of that and it looks like I'm in the qnap/synology range
- Usage case would be it gets put somewhere with power and network, probably sleeps most of the time then wakes up and checks/does backups every TBD.
Currently I'm looking at making something like this:
ASRock J3455-ITX - https://www.newegg.com/asrock-j3455-itx-mini-itx/p/N82E16813157728
8GB DDR3 (SO-DIMM) RAM - https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-8gb-204-pin-ddr3-so-dimm/p/N82E16820231704
Seasonic S12III (550W) - https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-s12iii-bronze-series-ssr-550gb3-550w/p/N82E16817151227
Fractal Node 304 - https://www.newegg.com/black-fractal-design-node-304-mini-itx-tower/p/N82E16811352027
Drives will be standard 3.5" SATA. Starting with 2x in the 8-10TB range but could go up to 4x (waiting for sales).
I looked at boards that support ECC RAM but that quickly priced me out or they were NLA or added too many extra parts.
Thoughts, comments, advice or similar builds appreciated.
Anyways, I already have one of the Synology boxes with a few drives, but I want to try out FreeNAS/napp-it or one of the other roll your own distributions with off the shelf hardware.
I'm currently thinking something along these guidelines:
- No need for resource intensive processing (VMs not required)
- Simple. Passively cooled. Few moving parts aside from the drives.
- Inexpensive but not barebones cheap, ~$300 for the machine (no drives) seems a reasonable target, upwards of that and it looks like I'm in the qnap/synology range
- Usage case would be it gets put somewhere with power and network, probably sleeps most of the time then wakes up and checks/does backups every TBD.
Currently I'm looking at making something like this:
ASRock J3455-ITX - https://www.newegg.com/asrock-j3455-itx-mini-itx/p/N82E16813157728
8GB DDR3 (SO-DIMM) RAM - https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-8gb-204-pin-ddr3-so-dimm/p/N82E16820231704
Seasonic S12III (550W) - https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-s12iii-bronze-series-ssr-550gb3-550w/p/N82E16817151227
Fractal Node 304 - https://www.newegg.com/black-fractal-design-node-304-mini-itx-tower/p/N82E16811352027
Drives will be standard 3.5" SATA. Starting with 2x in the 8-10TB range but could go up to 4x (waiting for sales).
I looked at boards that support ECC RAM but that quickly priced me out or they were NLA or added too many extra parts.
Thoughts, comments, advice or similar builds appreciated.