Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to introduce myself and say thanks for creating this awesome community/resource. I’ve been very intimidated when it’s come to building my own PC/NAS because of the crazy amount of choice/options and the differing needs of a NAS vs a gaming PC. But, after finding this site and the NAS Killer 4.0 build guide, I finally pulled the trigger!
Do you guys spot anything obviously glaring with this? I’m upgrading from a set of RPi 3/4s and an ODROID-N2. This will be my first ever PC build to boot.
Here’s the parts list (tax included):
- CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 - $58.79
- CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Gravity i2 - $13.05
- RAM: Kingston 1x8GB PC3-12800E DDR3-1600MHz ECC UDIMM - $48.99
- Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F - $65.33
- Case: Cooler Master Elite 350 w/ 500W PSU - $81.65
- SATA Cables: 6-pack SATA III - $8.70
Total Price (excl. drives): $276.51
To go with all that hardware, I’ve already got the following drives:
- 4x4TB Seagate Ironwolf - 3.5" 5900RPM
- 2x1TB Seagate Barracuda - 2.5" 7200RPM
- 1x240GB Kingston A400 - M.2 2280
The plan is for this box to serve as a NAS, with those old ARM SBCs running in Docker Swarm alongside it. The hope is that this box + the Pis can run:
- Plex serving 2-4 users + Sonarr/Radarr/Transmission
- Home Assistant
- Nextcloud
- A wordpress site
- Grafana/Prometheus
- MariaDB as the DB backend for those containers
- A PXE Server for the Pis to boot from
- Pi-Hole
- A Samba share for Steam games and my wife’s files
- Ubuntu 20.04
- ZFS for data integrity