It’s been quite some time i dealt with hardware. I’d like to think i’ve chosen a “close to future proof” parts for my needs, however, i’m pretty sure i might made some mistakes. For that I’m humbly requesting your expert feedback to find the flows in this build 🙏🏼
Config: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6L884M
As silent as possible, compact but good airflow(hence less power hungry, right?). Im open to change anything. But hear me out:
- NAS for media (movies + music + photo album)
- i do code, quite a lot and want to make use of virtualization hence probably dockers for pet projects (nothing crazy)
- no media editing whatsoever, just maybe occasional pic and video trims from family trips and prepare photo albums
- went with intel to avoid purchasing a GPU for hw transcoding, also for virtualisation
- added one M2 for OS and other apps
- maybe in future i can add a SSD or use the m2_2 not sure yet. (30 TB available space from Raid 5 should last me quite long tbh)
- empty PCIe slots for possible expansion or network card maybe.
- i’ll most likely make use of on board wifi 6
- it’ll probably run 5 days a week on average so i tried to consider low power consumption but i’m not sure if i’ve done a good job.
- OS i want to go for is True NAS Core with RAID5 using 4x10TB (mixed toshiba and WD to increase fault tolerance)
- wish this case had hot swap cage tho :(
Thank you very much in adv🙏🏼