It’s been quite some time i dealt with hardware. I’d like to think i’ve chosen a “close to future proof” parts for my needs, however, i’m pretty sure i might made some mistakes. For that I’m humbly requesting your expert feedback to find the flows in this build 🙏🏼

Config: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6L884M

As silent as possible, compact but good airflow(hence less power hungry, right?). Im open to change anything. But hear me out:

  • NAS for media (movies + music + photo album)
  • i do code, quite a lot and want to make use of virtualization hence probably dockers for pet projects (nothing crazy)
  • no media editing whatsoever, just maybe occasional pic and video trims from family trips and prepare photo albums
  • went with intel to avoid purchasing a GPU for hw transcoding, also for virtualisation
  • added one M2 for OS and other apps
  • maybe in future i can add a SSD or use the m2_2 not sure yet. (30 TB available space from Raid 5 should last me quite long tbh)
  • empty PCIe slots for possible expansion or network card maybe.
  • i’ll most likely make use of on board wifi 6
  • it’ll probably run 5 days a week on average so i tried to consider low power consumption but i’m not sure if i’ve done a good job.
  • OS i want to go for is True NAS Core with RAID5 using 4x10TB (mixed toshiba and WD to increase fault tolerance)
  • wish this case had hot swap cage tho :(

Thank you very much in adv🙏🏼

  • CederGrass759@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A very fine build! 👌 To be quite honest, maybe a little over-spec:ed for this fairly light use-case/purpose (price, power usage). But that does mean that you’ll have plenty of room for growth; virtualization etc

    • Mr_spinoza@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      thank you. i know its a bit overkill now but like you said, i was aiming for growth. the PCI slots are all empty now. I’ll see if i’ll be adding extra storage, network card or GPU… thanks for your comment