High capacity Home NAS

[mr.doom]

For some time now I wanted to build a home NAS system, so that the whole family or guests could use it. I also want this to serve as my personal cloud storage. Now that the HDD's are more affordable and in higher capacities too, I feel like I will get on with it. Basic thing is, I don't want this to be a fully fledged PC, so here are the specs that I was thinking about:

1x Fractal Design Array R2 Mini-ITX NAS Case, Black, with 300W SFX PSU
1x 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD - as a system drive
6x 4TB Hitachi 0S03364 CoolSpin 5K4000, 3.5" HDD, SATA III
Intel Core i3 3220T, 2.8 GHz. dual core
8GB (2x4GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Jet Black Low Profile, PC3-12800 (1600)
MSI B75IA-E33, Intel B75, S 1155, DDR3, SATA III - Mini ITX motherboard
Highpoint RocketRAID RR2740LF 16 channel Internal PCI-E 2.0 x16 to SAS/SATA 6Gb/s RAID controller


What do you guys think? Any major or obvious faults with it? Any input is appreciated. Thanks.

 

[lucasbytegenius]

Really don't think you need 8GB of RAM for a NAS box.

 

[FuryRosewood]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822122086
NAS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236344
HDD x6

Probably a better solution than trying to build a NAS from scratch.

 

[mr.doom]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822122086
NAS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236344
HDD x6

Probably a better solution than trying to build a NAS from scratch.

Thanks. Thing is, that if I build the NAS myself, I can then install a Linux distro like Clean OS and get far more functionality. I have couple of network drives now, but they don't have enough capacity, performance or options to use.

 

[lucasbytegenius]

Thanks. Thing is, that if I build the NAS myself, I can then install a Linux distro like Clean OS and get far more functionality. I have couple of network drives now, but they don't have enough capacity, performance or options to use.

You could also use FreeNAS: http://freenas.org

 

[Zangetsu]

Just go for a Qnap. And if you don't wanna go for an all-in-1 solution, then I would spend a lot less money on your system. You are almost building a "Gaming pc..." But... If you have the money, then go for it..