Gottria

I currently using an intel i7-7700 and an ASRock Z270M-ITX/ac and upgraded to an Asrock Z690M-ITX/ac board with an i5-12500 cpu. The CPU is actually pulled from my current build and I upgraded that to an i5-14500 CPU. Stuff is coming in today so I'm still running the i7-7700 in my Unraid box with the N2 case. Also purchased the IO CREST I/O CREST 2 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0.

Ranger, I think that is what I'm going to do. My total photo and music library is just shy of 500gb. I still take pics but not nearly as much as I use to, kids are getting older and don't play as much sports. My other idea, and the wife said I'm crazy but I though I would run it through here. Back in July of 03 I build an i7-4770 system with an Asus Z87-Deluxe mother board and 16gb of ram and a 480gb ssd, rock solid for the last 3 years. I also have an i7 Macbook Air 11" with 8gb of ram and a 256gb eSSD drive. My thoughts were to load the Asus board, CPU, and ram into a LIAN LI PC-Q25B case and add my drives from busted N40L. Then I can use my i7 Air as my primary computer with docking station to drive my 2 dell 24" displays. Most of the stuff I do now a days is email, surfing, some light photoshop work, lightroom activities, and I think the i7 in the Air can handle that all just fine. Throw the 480gb SSD in a case and use it with the Mac for extra storage. Now it does sound crazy.

Thanks Bob, checked the jumper it's still there in the correct position. Korith, just got this back up and running, installed 2 new Hitachi 2tb drives then the power supply went out, orgered a new one and it worked for 4 days then I noticed I couldn't log into it, rebooted and it never came back. I thinking at this point of just picking up a Synology or Qnap device and adding in the 2 new drives to it.

Build one or buy one ready to go? Also might consider just getting a NAS like a qnap or drobo?

Well my HP N40L took a crap on me, replaced the power supply last week and this week looks like the MB is dead. Just getting the red light, pulled everything of the board and swapped ram and still dead. Is it work it buy a new board? Found a board on ebay from a N54L for $145 with a 90 day warranty or should I just start fresh. I don't need a high powered unit, just used as a file server for now.