February 24, 20215 yr Hi All, I am building a second server for backup and my goal is low cost NAS. I may do more with this box later but the immediate goal is low cost and low power. Looking at the killer nas 4.0 thread i have picked out the following and would appreciate a few of you hardware experts checking this out. What am I missing? MBD: Supermicro X9SCL ... ebay CPU: Xeon E3-1260L ... ebay RAM: Patriot Viper 3 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model PV316G160C9K The ram is new from newegg because it isnt any more money than ebay used items I will use the on-board SATA ports for up to 6 drives and if this needs to grow beyond that i will add a PCIE SAS card later. I need to buy a case and PS but no worries about those items. I also want to try a few new things with this server that i may migrate to my new array like setting up the dual nic's, pfsense will likely live here, and start taking advantage of all the new things Unraid 6 offers over 5 (I dont do anything interesting with my main storage NAS). Any thoughts? Thanks very much. If this config looks good I will order it in the next couple days and post up the build here in this thread. My main concern is purchasing a MBD / CPU combo that is incompatible - i believe this pair is compatible. thanks! kimifelipe
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