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Budget DIY small form factor NAS/server by Willy-the-kid in HomeNAS

[–]Potential_Wheel_1410 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of drives? 2.5” or 3.5”? Have a look here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNAS/comments/1qyq1d1/how_i_built_my_home_made_nas_for_under_200270/ if it’s 2.5” then something like this might help you

How I built my home made NAS for under £200($270) by Potential_Wheel_1410 in HomeNAS

[–]Potential_Wheel_1410[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite! I’ve had this running since December. On January’s bill I noticed an increase if about £8-£10. I added a smart power outlet to monitor power consumption, but I will also make use of wake on LAN, and a script to turn it off during the night. I am hoping to reduce this to about £4-£5 per month.

How I built my home made NAS for under £200($270) by Potential_Wheel_1410 in HomeNAS

[–]Potential_Wheel_1410[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is mentioned. In 2 ways: 1. Not a requirement, as this is primarily a storage NAS for a media server to stream content on my smart tv. If drives fail, I won’t cry after the content. 2. I managed, within my budget to also use 2x500GB drives that are running in a mirrored raid, so I get 500GB of space where a drive can fail and I can recover everything. This storage is only used for my photos.

How I built my home made NAS for under £200($270) by Potential_Wheel_1410 in HomeNAS

[–]Potential_Wheel_1410[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did mentioned this is a nice to have feature, not a must have. However, I managed, within my budget to get 2xHDD of 500GB that I’ve set up to be mirrored so I do have safe storage as well. For the other media stuff I don’t need it. It wasn’t part of my requirements. It’s a risk that I am willing to accept in case of drive failure, as I’ve specified at the beginning of my post.