Helgaiden

Womp, no E5 xeons from those gens have igpus lol. Will have to keep digging.

Thats a fair point. I'll see if theres any similar ones to what I found but with igpu. Hmmm

Think I figured out the play for the CPU then. Isn't that much higher TDP, but seemingly has way more processing power due to more cores and higher frequency.... Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v4 8 Cores/16 threads, 2.1ghz base with 3ghz max turbo. 85w or the older version possibly... Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2620 v3 6 cores/12 threads, 2.4ghz base with 3.2ghz max turbo. Also 85w. hmmmm

I wonder if there is maybe a chart someone has made that sorts CPUs by idle power usage. Because that could motivate me to get one of the higher performance CPUs for that motherboard I linked in the first post.... just in case I decide to do more server-y things with it that require stronger specs (game servers, etc). Hmmmmmmmmm

Yeah I use an Intel nuc with a 13th gen CPU for my stream encoding. I love the upgrades quick sync has made over the years. 12th gen or newer, definitely something I should consider. Is there anything with ECC support? I think again of the 12th gen and newer SBC boards. Hmmm.

Haven't bought anything yet, just still gathering data. And thus the item ideas in my OP. But at first I mainly plan to just use the NAS as storage/file server but I'd be the only user, maybe 2 total, and then I can maybe explore other uses after that. But yeah I want it to be low power and low noise. Unobtrusive. It's going to be inside my house somewhere when all is said and done.

Hi all. Got in on a HexOS lifetime license during the black friday deal a while ago, with the goal to eventually get my own NAS built and this was the OS I wanted to use. That said, I've done tons of Xeon based gaming PCs because I use to build alot of PC's I would flip out of old parts. Naturally, I figured I'd put that experience into components needed to build a NAS. Xeons are cheap on ebay, support ECC RAM (which is important in my considerations) that is also cheap on ebay, and stuff like that. But the more I want to do this, the more I'm concerned about power draw. For those gaming PCs i did, I didn't care that the Xeons I used were using 135-200w. But now I do care. So after some digging, I think the following parts might work: - Xeon E5-2608L v3, which I've found on ebay for under $30 has a 52w TDP (the v4 is seemingly more expensive, closer to $100) Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2608L v3 - This C612 HKUXZR mobo from Amazon https://amzn.to/439SF7k - 32gb DDR4-2400 ECC ram off ebay (around $25 per 16gb stick, not bad) - Spare GTX 1660 Super I have on hand for video output and possibly transcoding stuff if I go down that road later. I also have a spare Radeon WX5100 if thats a better choice, though I'm thinking its not. - HDDs I will decide later since I'm just trying to square away the mobo, cpu, ram right now I'm also attracted to the idea of single board computer systems, of which I see alot of if i search "NAS board," but they all seem to have low performance CPUs. Though I'm unsure how an N100 would stack up against a 6c/12t Haswell Xeon at 2ghz. Seems most SBCs don't have a PCI-E slot though, and I feel like I might want that. But if its unimportant, and CPU iGPU transcoding does the trick as good as any lower-end add-in GPU, then I think I'd be fine with that route too. Just looking for some feedback or ideas. I'm a bit of a blank slate here. Thanks in advance.