Hi everyone,
I am new to this community but I am super excited for this new Journey! I was a long time user of Synology NAS but as my need grows, I am looking for a new setup with more than 8 drives. Seems like Synology restricted the list of compatible drives with their NAS, so I would like to move away from them.
The new build would be for storage only, I don't need to run Plex, VMs, Docker, ... I am looking for something which meets these requirements:
Somewhat low power consumption (24/7)
Minimum 8 drives
10Gbe Ethernet
Here is the build I was thinking about:
PSU (Re-used): EVGA 550 B5, 80 Plus Bronze 550W
Chassis (New): Fractal Design Define 7 XL
Motherboard (New): AsRock Rack Z490D4U-2L2T
CPU (New): Intel Pentium G6405 (Intel i3-10110?)
RAM (New): Crucial 8GB DDR4 2400 CL17 (x4)
Boot Drive (New): SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB SATA III (x2)
Cache Drive (Re-used): Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVME PCiE 4.0 M.2 (x2)
Storage Drive (New): Seagate Exos X16 16TB (x8)
HBA (New): LSI Internal SAS SATA 9211-8i
Here are couple thoughts around my decisions:
For low power NAS, Intel is better when idle
A new HBA card will be added when going over 12 disk as I have only 14 SATA connectors total but minus 2 for boot drives
I have seen people here with much more experience and knowledge than me as it is my first build, and I would love your opinion on the CPU/Motherboard combo? I was also looking at Ryzen 5 5600X with X570D4U. I would prefer to go with AMD as they don't change their socket every morning but the power draw at idle from the 5000 series might be a deal breaker.