Hey all! Today I am showcasing my NAS I put together for $300 W/ drives / $200 W/o Drives. Subscribe for more: / @xiaodoesstuff Follow for behind the scenes: / xiaodoesstuff
As a tip: SAS controllers and diskbays support SATA drives (not the other way). SATA server grade drives are even more budget friendly. You can even go for a NAS oriented drive if you want to purchase new. You will need to remake your pool entirely, because you can't mix drive types on the controller. But 25USD for a 4 TB SAS drive is crazy cheap, so nice find. High power on time value is just because usually drives always spin in servers and it's not advised to use spin-down to extend the life of the drive. Even working on idle, the power on metric will add time. If you have the possibility, buy one drive as a spare to put it on a shelf. It will allow you to quickly swap a bad drive, without the need to power down your NAS or run it with a degraded pool, whis is very risky, since there is no more redundancy.
Hi there. Electricity will definitely go up. Not a substantial amount tho. My system is pretty simple, and it’s xeon chip is decently efficient because its a low end xeon. Id say you wont have much to worry about with a 65w tdp cpu system
@@XiaoDoesStuff thanks a lot. I've been going down this homelab rabbit hole and have been wanting to get in. Thinking of grabbing an Hp Elitedesk SFF desktop (those have two 3.5in HDD slots) and building my own little mini NAS. This was a great video
@shu9460 oh definitely. Most of those have 65w cpu, and you can usually have idle power draw of 40-50 watts with 2 hdds. You can always google the cpu as well to see the tdp which is it’s roughly max power draw. Most 65w chips use 20-30 idle and each hdd can use around 10 watts
Awesome sauce! I ordered the exact same machine 2 weeks ago, it is arriving today, and I just stumbled on your video LOL I am doing the same thing, but I was wondering about how you bypassed the internal raid controller and the hardware you used to still use the backplane? I am going to use TrueNAS Scale as well but just a straight NAS for files, not as a streamer. I think I will try to find 4 used 10TB enterprise drives for the bays the same config you are for archive storage, and I will probably get like four 1TB SSD drives striped to use for super fast video editing, and then move the finished files down into the 10TB pool.
The baackplane used a sas connection. I dont know the exact type, but its one of the sas standards. I then bought a basic hba card with the same connector (~$35). I then changes the boot order to the hba. My hba had two sas connectors. One for the backplane and one for 4 sata drives. The order does matter, but when you get it right, it will boot from the boot drive as long as bootdruve is in first port connection of the hba
@@XiaoDoesStuff Do you happen to have any video / pics / and or links to the card you bought and where you found it? (Amazon/Aliexpress,etc.). There are a lot of people interested in your build and it would certainly help and encourage your viewers. :)
@jacquesredmond www.ebay.com/itm/155222053316?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=zq9OX4YXQYW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=ws-zw0pgrp2&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY this is the one i bought. It doesn’t seem to be a name brand, but its been working flawlessly for 2 months now
As a tip: SAS controllers and diskbays support SATA drives (not the other way). SATA server grade drives are even more budget friendly. You can even go for a NAS oriented drive if you want to purchase new. You will need to remake your pool entirely, because you can't mix drive types on the controller. But 25USD for a 4 TB SAS drive is crazy cheap, so nice find.
High power on time value is just because usually drives always spin in servers and it's not advised to use spin-down to extend the life of the drive. Even working on idle, the power on metric will add time.
If you have the possibility, buy one drive as a spare to put it on a shelf. It will allow you to quickly swap a bad drive, without the need to power down your NAS or run it with a degraded pool, whis is very risky, since there is no more redundancy.
But can it run Jun’s loader?
I will be honest, i have no idea. After a quick google search i didn’t find too much info on loaders and truenas
And your channel through this video - I really enjoyed it and I’ve subscribed. I hope you do more in the future!
Definitely a switch from gaming, but still very nice! Definitely make whatever videos you want!
will this make your electricity bill go up $100 a month though
Hi there. Electricity will definitely go up. Not a substantial amount tho. My system is pretty simple, and it’s xeon chip is decently efficient because its a low end xeon. Id say you wont have much to worry about with a 65w tdp cpu system
@@XiaoDoesStuff thanks a lot. I've been going down this homelab rabbit hole and have been wanting to get in. Thinking of grabbing an Hp Elitedesk SFF desktop (those have two 3.5in HDD slots) and building my own little mini NAS. This was a great video
@shu9460 oh definitely. Most of those have 65w cpu, and you can usually have idle power draw of 40-50 watts with 2 hdds. You can always google the cpu as well to see the tdp which is it’s roughly max power draw. Most 65w chips use 20-30 idle and each hdd can use around 10 watts
Great video btw! I’m planning to make a NAS for my projects and university stuff so this was super helpful dude
Yes, having a nas is wonderful. Redundancy is very important. I definitely suggest looking up raid configs to find the best for your use case.
Awesome sauce! I ordered the exact same machine 2 weeks ago, it is arriving today, and I just stumbled on your video LOL I am doing the same thing, but I was wondering about how you bypassed the internal raid controller and the hardware you used to still use the backplane?
I am going to use TrueNAS Scale as well but just a straight NAS for files, not as a streamer.
I think I will try to find 4 used 10TB enterprise drives for the bays the same config you are for archive storage, and I will probably get like four 1TB SSD drives striped to use for super fast video editing, and then move the finished files down into the 10TB pool.
The baackplane used a sas connection. I dont know the exact type, but its one of the sas standards. I then bought a basic hba card with the same connector (~$35). I then changes the boot order to the hba. My hba had two sas connectors. One for the backplane and one for 4 sata drives. The order does matter, but when you get it right, it will boot from the boot drive as long as bootdruve is in first port connection of the hba
@@XiaoDoesStuff Do you happen to have any video / pics / and or links to the card you bought and where you found it? (Amazon/Aliexpress,etc.). There are a lot of people interested in your build and it would certainly help and encourage your viewers. :)
@jacquesredmond www.ebay.com/itm/155222053316?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=zq9OX4YXQYW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=ws-zw0pgrp2&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY this is the one i bought. It doesn’t seem to be a name brand, but its been working flawlessly for 2 months now
@@XiaoDoesStuff Got it.
Are you using SATA or SAS drives in yours?
@jacquesredmond the hba supports bot sas and sata drives. I am usuing 4 dell 4tb enterprise sas drives