Hi everyone, this is my first time trying to make a build for a home server/NAS, can you please rate and fix wherever possible as I am sure I’ve probably made a mistake somewhere.
Any help would be appreciated.
Note: all prices are in CAD
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/kFFYWt
some notes regarding my build
1-I went with 12th gen 12600 for the IGP 770 as I’ve heard It’s got quite a big jump from its predecessor when it comes to streaming and transcoding, especially multiple 4k files at the same time (please correct me if I am wrong)
2-I went for this case for the amount of HDDs it can handle
3-Cheapest not crap PSU I could find
4- ram were the same price as the non RGB variants, so why not
5-I don’t think I need a better CPU cooler
Also note that I will be using this server mainly as a media server (Plex/Jellyfin) and a file/data server. I will be testing some VM use cases and possibly other things as I delve more into this and discover what more I can do with it.
Yes I do AI stuff on my main pc. But you’re right, I may opt to get a better psu in case I want to offload my ai stuff to the server instead. Good point, thank you for bringing it to my attention Interesting, how do you connect your drives to the pi? You use an external hdd enclosure?
I run the pi OS and support functions for the apps off of a M2 SSD that is attached via one of the USB 3.0 ports. The HDDs for media are off the other 3.0 USB in a low end NAS. I have 2 and 4 bay units. The media server has a 2 Bay drive with 2 X 10 GB drives. I have about 14 or 15 GBs of movies, TV, and music. As people get new movies, my brother rips them and I distribute to the setups at everyone’s house. Yeah we kinda have the same movies.
The 4 bay setup is a raid 10 for my photos, and other files that I can’t afford to lose. I run paperless ngx and pydio. I am swapping out pydio for photo prism. I have 20K plus photos (33 MP images). Raid 10 is complete redundancy, hot swapsble. I scanned a number of old family photo albums. Kind of a single, safe repository.