Mahmood

My WD EX4: Sorry, it's EX4 not EX4100. I can't do the test now but from this video, Read/Write speeds hover around 60MB/s, 27MB/s respectively. New Build: If I'm going with 4x8TB, do I need to increase the power supply wattage? Backup Strategy: I'm thinking of Single WD 18TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive and connect to the NAS weekly/monthly as automated backup.

Hi all! This is my first post in this forum and I'm looking to build my first NAS. We have WD 24TB My Cloud EX4100 EX4 but it is very slow and would like to have a NAS my own. My use case: - Archive important family photos and videos(Converted VHS, iPhone video, and h264 from mirrorless camera). - Plex (I will probably need transcoding as I will be streaming from a smart TV). - Experiment with dockers (Plex, Sonarr, radarr, PiHole). not interested in VMs What is your budget? Around ~$1300 with drives. How many drives? At least 4 drives how much capacity? 2x18TB (Unraid Single Parity) + 2x500GB SSD for cache pool Is expandability important to you? what's your long term goal? I think up to 36TB of usable storage would be more than enough. Do you have any spare parts? (1x Samsung EVO 860 500gb) Draft list Mobo: Fujitsu D3644-B CPU: i3-8100 (locally used for $54) RAM: Crucial CT16G4WFD8266 HDD: 2x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 18TB SSD: 2x 870 EVO SATA 2.5" SSD 500GB Case: Cooler Master N300 Or Meshify 2 XL - Fractal design PSU: be quiet! Pure Power 11 400W Side Notes: - I'm having hard time looking Fujitsu D3644-B stock, can anyone advise if they have expiernce with inpexopcion? - Although watt rate in my country is relatively low ($0.048/kWh), I would like power draw to be reasonable. - Looking for your feedback!