I would like to build a home media server to play movies from different devices simultaneously (iPad, smartphones, laptop, firestick, etc). I was researching prices on 16TB drives and read that Enterprise drives will last longer than NAS drives and I came across this drive (
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6698240) for $365 which seems unusual since I thought SAS drives were more expensive then their SATA counterparts. I have a proposed build below and I don't know much about SAS PCIe controller cards, but would like to determine if this would work and allow me to read data faster than the 6 GB/s limit of SATA.
| Approximate Purchase Date: within a month |
| Budget Range: $1400 |
| System Usage from Most to Least Important: Home Media Server (Plex) |
| Are you buying a monitor: No |
| Do you need to buy OS: No |
| Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg.com |
| Location: Tucson, AZ |
| Parts Preferences: AMD |
| Overclocking: Maybe |
| SLI or Crossfire: No |
| Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 |
| Additional Comments: Plan on buying one additional 16TB drive later this year |
| And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Building a server to stream movies from |
| Hardware | Price |
| Fractal Design ITX Case | $ 99.00 |
| Gigabyte B450I Aorus Pro-Wifi AMD AM4 mini-ITX MOBO | $ 124.00 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 100-100000031BOX CPU | $ 167.00 |
| Noctua NH-L9a AM4, 37mm Low-profile CPU Cooler for AMD AM4 | $ 40.00 |
| G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (PC4-28800) DDR4 3600 F4-3600C16D-16GVKC RAM | $ 83.00 |
| Seasonic FOCUS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX PSU | $ 99.00 |
| WD Blue SN550 1 TB M.2 (NVMe) SSD | $ 115.00 |
| Seagate Exos X16 16TB HDD, 12Gb/s SAS,256MB Buffer - ST16000NM002G | $ 360.00 |
| LSI LOGIC 9361-8I 12GB/S PCIE 3.0 8-PORT INTERNAL 1G DDRIII SATA/SAS RAID CONTROLLER | $ 160.00 |
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