[SOLVED] Re-purposing old MediaPC for new NAS

[mtesta1985]

Hello,

I am planning on building my own NAS. I have already acquired 10 WD 10TB white drives. Originally, I was going to build a new NAS from scratch with a RAID controller card and all. But, reading more on FreeNAS and Unraid, I'm thinking about just re-purposing my old 2014 Windows Home theater PC into a NAS friendly case. Instead of buying a Raid card, I'd just buy a 10 port SATA PCI card and use FreeNAS. The NAS will just be for file storage and will not be running any other programs. My question is do you think my hardware is sufficient or am I missing something?

Thanks

ASUS A88XM-A FM2+ Micro ATX motherboard
AMD A6-5400K Trinity Dual-core 3.6
Team Zeus Red 8gb of ram DDR3
EVGA 430W White powersupply
Kingston 60GB SSD

 

[geofelt]

I think insufficient with such old components.
But, since you have the parts, why not try using a few of the drives in your current pc.
See how it goes.
If you like what you see, then add in the 10 port sata pci card.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

for basic file I/O, the dual core should be okay, IMHO.

gigabit Ethernet and you'll do just fine

 

[USAFRet]

What workload? How many users?
If just at the house, should be fine.

 

[mtesta1985]

Thanks for the feedback. This is just for home use (2 TV's). I have a pretty stout Plex server already. This NAS will just be a file server for my Plex server. Only FreeNAS will be loaded on it. Great idea with the gigabit card I'll definitely do that.

 

[EdgeT]

For a simple file server it's more than enough. You can even save some power if you have 2x4GB RAM and remove one of them.

 

[Alabalcho]

How you're going to backup 100TB (or even 50-70 if RAIDs are used) of storage?