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Use the recommended build under the NK4.0 build guide:

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6-bay Mini-ITX NAS

I never thought I would be recommending a Mini-ITX Xeon NAS, yet here we are. I’m in the process of building one of these myself as something I can travel with. Overall, it’s going to be quite powerful, quiet, power efficient, and most importantly: storage dense.

The DQ77KB is a pretty neat little board. It uses a 19V DC power supply that’s commonly found on medium to large size laptops. In this case, I’m recommending a 120W power supply which should be more that enough to cover 6xHDD + the recommended processor. The motherboard also has dual NIC, uses laptop-style SODIMM memory, and has an onboard MSATA port.

The case has room for 6x3.5" HDD as well as 2x2.5" SSD. The motherboard has 4 onboard SATA, so we need to add either a 2 port card (for 6xHDD) or a 4 port card (for 6xHDD + 2xSSD) to take advantage of the rest of the drive bays.

I recommend a MSATA SSD for cache if you’re going to use Unraid. This leaves 6x3.5" for parity and data. I’d only run 1 parity drive in a 6 bay NAS like this. If you go for the 4 port card, you can have 2 more SSDs as unassigned devices. (VM storage, unpack drives, non-parity/non-crucial data, etc.)

The configuration below includes a MSATA SSD, which is good for Unraid or an OS boot drive. If you plan on running a different configuration, you can remove it from the parts list.

Type	Part (link)	Expected Price
Case	Fractal Node 304	$90.00
Motherboard	Intel DQ77KB Mini-ITX	$41.00 OBO
CPU	Xeon E3-1260L	$40.00
RAM	1x8GB DDR3 SODIMM	$22.00
MSATA SSD	TCSUNBOW 240GB SSD	$37.00
CPU Cooler	Thermaltake Gravity i2	$9.00
Power Supply	19V 120W DC power supply	$23.00
SATA Data Cable	6 Pack SATA cable	$8.00
SATA Power Cable	DQ77KB 4xSATA power	$9.00
SATA Power Splitter	Startech 4xSATA power	$7.00
SATA Card	2 Port SATA3 card	$14.00
Total	-----	$300.00

Hardware specs:

• 4C / 8T, 3.30GHz Turbo, 6534 passmark
  • Upgradable up to 4C / 8T, 8892 passmark with i7-3770S
• 8GB DDR3 RAM
  • Expandable up to 16GB RAM
• 6x3.5" bays, 2x2.5" bays native
• Dual Intel NIC

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