Ive tried this and to be honest its better to get middle/high end parts.why?instead of going to nas path u better off using esxi (as what im doing right now). Esxi on thumbdrive 16gb,2tb hd,quad core intel cpu,16gb ram. Heres my setup

VM's
1.pfsense
2.Linuxmint
3.windows 8.1
4.xpenology/owncloud

Media server is on windows 8.1 with OpenMediaServer (support on-the-fly transcoding). Nas is on xpenology with integrated owncloud.

But thats me. I dont care hoow big the whole thing is as long as it serve my needs. And still, i have 5 more sata ports if more storage is needed.

Wow. Since you've pm'ed me I wonder what was your interest is.

Looks like going the same direction.

I would like to ditch my Buffalo NAS and do my own. Looking forward.

My server is already running.
But the sound is a little noisy.
It is either the pc case fan or the PSU fan.
My hunch is on the PSU fan because I have wired the case fan to run at 5v.
Either get a replacement fan for the PSU or get one picoPSU.
But I think I would get a picoPSU, also to reduce the heat inside the box.

Well I have a DIY NAS with asrock baytrail and 2 SATA HDD. 1 2.5inch HDD recycle OS and one 3T red HDD for DL.

I dont need so many HDD as it will kill the life spend of all. My main usage is only for BT DL with GB LAN, as media server, some minor backup...

Heat no prob here as i am using coolermaster casing... Am thinking my RAM is over kill with 16G of RAM ( as i get it from US and it is very cheap)

Since the casing have so many USB3 port, i have purchase the PCIE 2 USB3 slot for it as well, if you want more SATA, you can do so for PCIE 2 SATA...

This post has been edited by Ree73: Jul 25 2016, 09:51 AM

If you don't need much storage, I'd strongly suggest using a router as downloader and file server.

For my case, I have an old 1TB external 3.5in disk. So I just use huawei WS880 (flashed with Asuswrt-Vortex) as my BT downloader and files/samba server. Powerful enough for occasional downloading, and stream video files to my desktop through gigabit. The only shortcoming is that it can't do transcoding on the fly for high bitrate/complexity video files.

Save electricity as well.