Hi everyone, this is my first time trying to make a build for a home server/NAS, can you please rate and fix wherever possible as I am sure I’ve probably made a mistake somewhere.

Any help would be appreciated.

Note: all prices are in CAD

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/kFFYWt

some notes regarding my build

1-I went with 12th gen 12600 for the IGP 770 as I’ve heard It’s got quite a big jump from its predecessor when it comes to streaming and transcoding, especially multiple 4k files at the same time (please correct me if I am wrong)

2-I went for this case for the amount of HDDs it can handle

3-Cheapest not crap PSU I could find

4- ram were the same price as the non RGB variants, so why not

5-I don’t think I need a better CPU cooler

Also note that I will be using this server mainly as a media server (Plex/Jellyfin) and a file/data server. I will be testing some VM use cases and possibly other things as I delve more into this and discover what more I can do with it.

  • mdcbldr@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I run the pi OS and support functions for the apps off of a M2 SSD that is attached via one of the USB 3.0 ports. The HDDs for media are off the other 3.0 USB in a low end NAS. I have 2 and 4 bay units. The media server has a 2 Bay drive with 2 X 10 GB drives. I have about 14 or 15 GBs of movies, TV, and music. As people get new movies, my brother rips them and I distribute to the setups at everyone’s house. Yeah we kinda have the same movies.

    The 4 bay setup is a raid 10 for my photos, and other files that I can’t afford to lose. I run paperless ngx and pydio. I am swapping out pydio for photo prism. I have 20K plus photos (33 MP images). Raid 10 is complete redundancy, hot swapsble. I scanned a number of old family photo albums. Kind of a single, safe repository.