Hello
I have built a few desktop PCs before but now I would like to try building a NAS to hold all of my media files for easy network access. I would appreciate any advice for what os to run and what would best meet my needs.
My primary need is to have about 16-20TB of network storage.
As a bonus it would be nice to be able to run utorrent on it as well.
Another bonus would be the ability to run xmbc on it and use it as a htpc.
Right now I am thinking of using 4TB WD red drives (6?), an i3 cpu (or do I need i5?), ~16GB of ram, a small case (Fractal node 304), mini itx motherboard (Asus H87I-Plus), 600 watt power supply, and a thumb drive for boot drive. I am expecting to pay around $2000.
I have been reading a bit about FreeNAS and it seems pretty good but I think it would only allow fileserver functions and not htpc or bittorrent functions. Would I be better off just using Windows? Or is something else better?
I would appreciate any advice, suggestions, or even links to forums or tutorials for beginners at building a NAS. Thanks a lot!
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I have built a few desktop PCs before but now I would like to try building a NAS to hold all of my media files for easy network access. I would appreciate any advice for what os to run and what would best meet my needs.
My primary need is to have about 16-20TB of network storage.
As a bonus it would be nice to be able to run utorrent on it as well.
Another bonus would be the ability to run xmbc on it and use it as a htpc.
Right now I am thinking of using 4TB WD red drives (6?), an i3 cpu (or do I need i5?), ~16GB of ram, a small case (Fractal node 304), mini itx motherboard (Asus H87I-Plus), 600 watt power supply, and a thumb drive for boot drive. I am expecting to pay around $2000.
I have been reading a bit about FreeNAS and it seems pretty good but I think it would only allow fileserver functions and not htpc or bittorrent functions. Would I be better off just using Windows? Or is something else better?
I would appreciate any advice, suggestions, or even links to forums or tutorials for beginners at building a NAS. Thanks a lot!
http://redirect.anandtech.com/r?url...duct.aspx?Item=N82E16813132032&user=u00000687