Best PSU for home NAS?

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lolwut767

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Hi all!
I'm going to be building myself a NAS box for my house. Reason being, I have a lot of data around the place and having it all in one place would be nice, but I don't have the storage space for it.

This is the build in question:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/ihaterain5620/saved/cFkgXL

I've been looking for PSUs, and I've found a decent one with enough SATA connectors (-1 but I can get an adaptor from molex) for a good price.
Is it any good, and is it okay for the job in hand?
The product: (CX430M)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-Builder-Series-Modular-Certified/dp/B00ALYP208/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406568945&sr=8-1&keywords=cx430m

Also, is my NAS box any good? (I do hope so!) I'm going to be running nas4free since it has lower sys req's.

Thanks everyone!
 
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Looks Like a good build man. The Mobo has a high quality Intel NIC and with the PCIe X1 slots you can Install a RAID card down the line. The CPU supports ECC RAM as well. So it is Highly upgradable and should be a great system for years to come.
One more note that chip does not support AES encryption for your drives, but if you want to lock everything down 256bit style you could always get Bitlocker

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Thanks for all of the replies so far!
About the PSU, the EVGA one looks great. I'll add that. Great to see that it has 6 sata connections too!
About the Sempron, what CPU would you think is best for not much more? Either that, or what ultra cheap GPU do you recommend?
 
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Looks Like a good build man. The Mobo has a high quality Intel NIC and with the PCIe X1 slots you can Install a RAID card down the line. The CPU supports ECC RAM as well. So it is Highly upgradable and should be a great system for years to come.
One more note that chip does not support AES encryption for your drives, but if you want to lock everything down 256bit style you could always get Bitlocker

 
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Great to hear, thanks for your help!
Couple of things, could I do hardware raid on the board instead of a card as it says I can do that, and use something like Windows server or seven instead of free NAS? I know my way round windows much more than free NAS, plus I have a copy laying around.
Again, thanks for your help!
 
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Sure that board will RAID 0/1/5/ 1+0. I would use free NAS the cost of learning the new system wii payoff in the granular control that you get. Plus I love the Open Source software. I doubt that you can run Bitlocker with free NAS though Im sure that it has some encreption Standard built in. I will get back to you after some quick research
 
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FreeNAS is the first and only open source project to offer encryption on ZFS volumes! A simple encryption option is available during volume creation. For additional security, users have the options of adding a passphrase or initializing a volume with random data. ZFS Volumes encrypted by FreeNAS still use ZFS version 28, so interoperability with other ZFS implementations is not impacted - the only restriction is that only FreeNAS and FreeBSD can import encrypted volumes.

Encrypted volumes can only be read by FreeNAS systems in possession of the master key for that volume. Encryption allows for confidence when retiring and recycling hard drives because the drives no longer need to be wiped provided the keys are obliterated.
 
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Good to hear that it does raid 10!
About free NAS, I thought you needed 1gb ram per tb, which means I'd either need 6 of 12.
I'm thinking of using nas4free since it only needs 1gb minimum for zfs.

Sorry for all of the questions, but what's the difference between zfs and ufs? Also, if zfs is better, do I need more than 4gb of ram?
Sorry to bother you so much! :(
 
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