minus-squareSockenklaus@sh.itjust.workstoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Compact, low-power NAS on a €500 budget - Advice needed!linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 days agoEarlier this year I built something similar, although with more space for hard drives: I used the following components: Mainboard Topton N100 (AliExpress) This is actually a BKHD 1264 NAS 136,69 € RAM 16 GB Crucial DDR5-4800 (Mindfactory) 40,78 € Case Jonsbo N2 (???) 138,83 € PSU 300 W bequiet SFX Power 3 (Mindfactory) 50,39 € M.2 system drives 2 X 128 GB Patriot P.300 (Mindfactory) 25,78 € 392,47 € For storage I bought used 4 TB drives from ebay for around 40 € each. Now the system is running 5 x 4 TB in RAID 6 as well as a 256 SATA SSD I had laying around as cache. The system is using 25 Watts in idle with those 5 HDDs, 1 SATA SSD and 2 M.2 SSDs. It’s a bit more you’ve been asking for but this option would offer you more expandability down there road. linkfedilink
Earlier this year I built something similar, although with more space for hard drives:
I used the following components:
For storage I bought used 4 TB drives from ebay for around 40 € each.
Now the system is running 5 x 4 TB in RAID 6 as well as a 256 SATA SSD I had laying around as cache.
The system is using 25 Watts in idle with those 5 HDDs, 1 SATA SSD and 2 M.2 SSDs.
It’s a bit more you’ve been asking for but this option would offer you more expandability down there road.