{"id":214,"date":"2010-09-06T06:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T05:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l8ter.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2010-09-29T03:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T02:19:24","slug":"cheap-but-functional-itx-nas-brainstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l8ter.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Cheap but functional ITX NAS (Brainstorm)"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here is a quick brainstorm of a replacement of my server. It needs to be pretty functional (web hosting maybe ESXi) it also needs at least 4 hdd bays. \u00a0I plan on doing a full review and article based on the build This is what i have found so far:<\/p>\n

CASES:<\/p>\n

Lian Li Q08B – 159<\/p>\n

Needs standard atx psu, 6x hdd bay another 1 if you use the 5 1\/4 bay<\/p>\n

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Factal Design Mini Nas Preffered – 300<\/div>\n
Comes with its own PSU but is ATX if you want to replace it, looks good, has 6x 3.5 hdd bays* and 1x 2.5 hdd bay<\/div>\n
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MOTHERBOARDS:<\/div>\n
ASUS AT5NM10-I mini-ITX – $130<\/span><\/div>\n
Atom D510, DDR2, 2x SATA, Downside passive cooled.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Gigabyte\u00a0GA-D525TUD (Prefer\u00a0this Board) -$120<\/span><\/div>\n
DDR3*, 4x Sata*, Fan cooled, D525 NM10<\/span><\/div>\n
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ISSUES:<\/div>\n
Addonics 5 port SATA multiplier (link<\/a>) $140<\/div>\n
You may notice that most of these boards only have 2 sata ports which is bad mkay.. BUT… I have thought of that and found. This will allow JBOD and RAID5, dont expect blistering performance but for a low end file server it will do.<\/div>\n
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That is the basics of what\u00a0I\u00a0envisage to be a nice cheap and reliable system, it will be low power and\u00a0I\u00a0have stated\u00a0I\u00a0don’t\u00a0expect blistering speed from it. I picture 6x 2Tb WD green drives running in JBOD (as it is just a media server and\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0have the real need for redundancy). Thats all\u00a0I\u00a0have for now.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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