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Potential NAS

July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Toys

Trying to build a NAS with the following requirements

  • Gigabit LAN
  • Low Power
  • 4 Drives
  • Compact

Looking at the following components

CPU – AMD Athlon™64 X2 4850e [5 U] Which is one of the 45W CPUs

Mobo – ASUS M2A-VM  [ U] [ PC]

CPU Cooler – Cooler Master Hyper TX2 [.00 U] [.00 PCS]

PSU – Antec EarthWatt 380W [ U]

VID – Onboard

RAM – Kingston 4Gig DD2 667Mhz Registered ECC [$199 U]

HDD -  4 x 1Tb Western Digital Green Power [ 8 Each - 2 Total U] [5 Each - 0 Total PC]

Case – Antec Solo [2 U]

Total so far $1468

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3 Responses to “Potential NAS”

  1. Bucky Ball Says:

    February 16th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    Hey, that is almost the same as the machine I am building now. Last things to get are PSU and case. The ram is a 4Gb Kingston kit (800mhz) and only 2 x 500Gb WD GreenPower drives.

    How does it all run? Is the EA 380watt enough power for that system, especially with the 4Tb drives? Curious to know how it all runs. I will be running Ubuntu 8.04.

    Cheers and more energy efficient computer building I say! Well done.


  2. Bucky Ball Says:

    February 16th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    4 x 1Tb drives I mean … :)


  3. Dave Says:

    February 17th, 2009 at 4:18 am

    I haven’t had any issues with the system since it was built. It runs 24 hours a day without a hitch, but I’m not hammering it either.


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