firstserver First PC Build, First NAS!

[Vanderploegr1]

Hi everyone!

I'm excited to join the Beta program with HexOS and build my first NAS which I plan to use for basic file storage and maybe computer backups down the road. Currently I have 12TB of storage hosted as a network drive on a always on micro PC and my goal is to replace that with this setup. To do that I'm planning on using:

Dell OptiPlex 3050 SFF Intel Core i5-7500 | 8GB DDR4 RAM

• M.2 128GB drive for OS
• SATA 1 : SEAGATE TERASCALE HDD 4TB ST4000NC001 5900 RPM 64MB 3.5" SATA 6GB/S
• SATA 2: Identical 4TB drive as above
• PCIE SATA Expansion card: 10 Port PCIE Expansion Card PCIe SATA 3.0 Controller Adapter 6Gbps for Desktop
  • In that Expansion card, 3 more of the same 4TB drives

I know they are slower drives, I'm not super concerned with the performance, so that's fine with me. My biggest concern is power. There are no other power leads coming out of the power supply. I'm guessing I can't just get a SATA power splitter cable to power the 5 drives off the power supply technically made for SATA 1? Is there anything else about this setup I should be concerned about?

With 5 4TB drives would my storage then be 16TB? (Max - 1 drive) with 1 drive failure without data loss?

 

Thanks everyone!

[Dylan]

Check the power ratings of both your power supply and MOBO, first.

Second, in terms of capacity, it depends on which raid type you wish to use. 5x4TB in a raidz1 pool would provide about ~14.5 TB of storage but only survive one disk failure. However, if that were a raidz2 you would only get just under 11TB of usable storage but could survive two disk failures.

Good luck and choose wisely.