Hi all,
This forum and discord has been an immense help in me getting off to a great start for my first ever NAS! I didn’t stop at NAS, because the pfsense custom router sounded very intriguing, so I figured I would build one of those too. I did overshoot my initial budget by quite a bit but I am justifying that by the fact that these builds will last me for a long time to come.
NK4 parts and cost
Type | Part | Cost |
---|---|---|
Case | Fractal Node 804 | $130 |
Motherboard | Supermicro X9SCM-F REV 1.1A | $81 |
CPU | Xeon E3-1270 | $44 |
RAM | 16Gb 4x4GB ECC UDIMM Micron | $49 |
PSU | MasterWatt 550W | $44 |
CPU Cooler | Coolermaster Hyper 212 black | $35 |
SAS Expansion | PCI-E SAS9211-8l LSI | $24 |
Cache drive | Lite-On EP2 960GB 221100 M.2 | $70 |
M.2 Adapter | PCI-E M.2 Adapter 221100 | $14 |
SAS cables | Mini SAS to SFF cables | $12 |
I bought 6 of the SAS HDDs from the RTG deal JDM posted for a total of $300. Impressive deal!
I am planning on using 1 of them as parity so I will have a total of 20TB available, which is plenty! I wanted a stylish case since this may lie around outside of a server room, hence the Fractal Node. I missed the cyber monday deal on the rosewill unfortunately.
I did not have patience to wait so I have bought all these parts already, but if anyone thinks there’s a better alternative i am willing to return/exchange.
For the pfSense build, here are the parts
Type | Part | Cost |
---|---|---|
SFF Unit | Lenovo Thinkcenter E73 SFF | $43 |
CPU | Intel core i3-4130 | included |
RAM | 4Gb | included |
HDD | 250GB | included |
Ethernet NIC | Intel I350T4V2 4 port with low-profile bracket | $27 |
Wireless AP | Ubiquity Unifi AP Lite | $78 |
The plan is to plug the pfsense box to the switch and then NAS and the wireless AP to the switch.
Did I get everything? Do you guys see anything that I missed?
I am really excited and waiting for all the parts to arrive!!! Christmas is coming early!