- Jul 4, 2014
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I'm looking to/thinking about building my self my own NAS system. This will be my first home server/cloud build so I would like to get some info on building and setting one up.
I'm looking hardware wise for it to be a very quiet/silent SFF mATX/mITX based system with minimal power consumption and with room for possible expansion in the future. The system doesn't need to be very powerful at all as it will only be used for file storage that can be accessed both at and away from home.
This leads me onto the storage its self to begin with I will only be wanting to run two drives to begin with in something like RAID 1 or some other form of RAID that will allow for drive failure and for drives to be swapped out/added if I need.
Next is I will be aiming for it to be a Linux based system (I have no experience with it but I doubt it will be too hard to get to grips with) unless anybody can suggest a better option. I would like to be able to access it away from home. Plus would like the system to be able to run in a way where it shuts down/ goes into sleep mode when it is inactive but then wakes up when I want to access it. As I really want to try and keep its power consumption to a minimum especially as I wont be needing to access it all day everyday.
Further to this it would be handy if I would also be able change its settings remotely from my home computer rather than having to plug a monitor, mouse and keyboard into every time I wanted to change something on it.
TL;DR
So in summary I would like any information whether it be software or hardware based about:
-Low power & noise components for a small form factor NAS system
-The OS and utilities I would require to install on it
-Being able to enable power saving features like automatic sleep/wake up
-Being able to access it remotely away from home
-RAID option/setup
-Being able to change setting remotely
I'm looking hardware wise for it to be a very quiet/silent SFF mATX/mITX based system with minimal power consumption and with room for possible expansion in the future. The system doesn't need to be very powerful at all as it will only be used for file storage that can be accessed both at and away from home.
This leads me onto the storage its self to begin with I will only be wanting to run two drives to begin with in something like RAID 1 or some other form of RAID that will allow for drive failure and for drives to be swapped out/added if I need.
Next is I will be aiming for it to be a Linux based system (I have no experience with it but I doubt it will be too hard to get to grips with) unless anybody can suggest a better option. I would like to be able to access it away from home. Plus would like the system to be able to run in a way where it shuts down/ goes into sleep mode when it is inactive but then wakes up when I want to access it. As I really want to try and keep its power consumption to a minimum especially as I wont be needing to access it all day everyday.
Further to this it would be handy if I would also be able change its settings remotely from my home computer rather than having to plug a monitor, mouse and keyboard into every time I wanted to change something on it.
TL;DR
So in summary I would like any information whether it be software or hardware based about:
-Low power & noise components for a small form factor NAS system
-The OS and utilities I would require to install on it
-Being able to enable power saving features like automatic sleep/wake up
-Being able to access it remotely away from home
-RAID option/setup
-Being able to change setting remotely
one of my main aims is for low power consumption from the system. From what you have given me looks good. I really want to look into about power saving features like automatic sleep for when it inactive and as soon as I try to access it via networking it wakes its self up again ready for use.
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