Hi there!
I've was thoroughly in to building machines back in 2002, but have well and truly taken my finger off the pulse of hardware.
I want to build myself a 4 bay NAS that'll accommodate 4x4tb drives in mirror, and I've had a look at the synology boxes, but the price seems pretty high for what I'd like to achieve. Those have proprietary software and plug and play capability / warranty and I get that, but I'd like to explore a self build using something like FreeNAS.
I'd like something synology small (I guess that means microatx sized?), but I don't see myself constantly swapping drives over, so I suppose having them instantly accessible isn't *that* big a deal.
I need to be able to transcode plex when required, and it'll serve primarily as a plex box and nas share for backing up data, but it would be really useful if it could host a VM or two, so wouldn't rule out something with 8gb RAM and a reasonable CPU.
What's a good matchup of components to accomplish this? I'm open to any advice and would really appreciate the thoughts of the OCUK collective mind.
Cheers,
K
I've was thoroughly in to building machines back in 2002, but have well and truly taken my finger off the pulse of hardware.
I want to build myself a 4 bay NAS that'll accommodate 4x4tb drives in mirror, and I've had a look at the synology boxes, but the price seems pretty high for what I'd like to achieve. Those have proprietary software and plug and play capability / warranty and I get that, but I'd like to explore a self build using something like FreeNAS.
I'd like something synology small (I guess that means microatx sized?), but I don't see myself constantly swapping drives over, so I suppose having them instantly accessible isn't *that* big a deal.
I need to be able to transcode plex when required, and it'll serve primarily as a plex box and nas share for backing up data, but it would be really useful if it could host a VM or two, so wouldn't rule out something with 8gb RAM and a reasonable CPU.
What's a good matchup of components to accomplish this? I'm open to any advice and would really appreciate the thoughts of the OCUK collective mind.
Cheers,
K