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[astinkybumb]

Im thinking about building my own high capacity NAS for media storage and streaming. I dont want a pre made NAS as they dont go as high as i want in the storage area.
-Note I dont trust 3tb or larger drives, i havent heard any good from them so the highest ill use is a 2tb.
-I plan to install freenas os however im not sure what im going to put that on. im open to suggestions (ssd?)
-Planing Raid 5 however i need to do more research on it as i have never used Raid

Here are the parts i plan to use as of now point out flaws as you wish:
Case: Fractal Design Define Mini Black Micro ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352011

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-F2A85XM-D3H FM2 AMD A85X
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128572

PCU: XIGMATEK XCP-A400
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817815021

CPU: AMD A4-5300 Trinity 3.4GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113283

Ram: G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231396

HDD x6: Western Digital Red WD20EFRX 2TB IntelliPower 64MB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236343

Approximate total from Newegg: $1107

 

[Fluffysheep]

I know you said you wanted to build your own but I just wanted to throw this at you in case you haven't looked at it yet.
http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS1512+&lang=us
I set one of these up this week for a part of our NAS at work and it works great.
I set it up with Raid 5 with 3 3TB Hard Disks and I'm using it as a VMware Datastore.
Everything is moving quickly. I say this because this will support more storage (and is less work) than your 12TB unit will.

 

[astinkybumb]

I did see that in some of the research i did. I just ran a price check on amazon with that model and its almost 900$ (diskless) and was 1800$ for the 10TB system my build was just over 1k with a 12TB system. (which after reading about raid 5 is technically a 10TB system)

I do however want to build it myself so if something goes wrong i can easily figure out what went wrong and fix it. Plus i have a love for building machines. I agree that would be a lot less work but on that price scale totally not worth it.