My NAS Killer 4.1-ish Build
Specs
Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 3.20GHz
16GB of Kingston DDR3 ECC
16TB HDD Storage
240GB SSD Cache
Prices
| Part | Model | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Motherboard | Intel S1200V3RPL | $70 |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E3-1225v3 | w/ board |
| RAM | 4x Kingston PC3L-12800E 4GB | $30 |
| Cooler | Stock Intel Cooler | |
| PSU | Cooler Master MWE 500 Bronze | $53 |
| Controller | LSI 9201-8i | $23 |
| HDD | 3x 4TB HGST SAS | $120 |
| 1x 4TB Western Digital Red SATA | Unknown | |
| SSD | SanDisk 240GB | Unknown |
| Other | SAS 8087 to 8482 Cable | $13 |
| Case | NZXT Source 210 Black | Unknown |
| Total | $309 |
Description
I’ve been wanting to build a home server for many years now. I’ve worked as a System Admin and Network Admin and never had a home setup to play with.
Randomly came across ServerBuilds.net on Reddit and was lurking for awhile. The NAS Killer 4.0 just came out and I saw a post about a deal on what would be considered a NAS Killer 4.1, so I jumped on it. Then bought everything else. I had some stuff laying around from desktop builds that I reused (fans, SSD, case, HDD).
Went with Unraid for the OS, because while I want something I can mess with, I don’t want to spend all my free time troubleshooting. Unraid is simple and straight forward.
