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My family has a long history of losing files (Old family photo's, Work notes) and i want to build a 3TB home NAS out of a DELL optiplex 960 SFF by replacing the HDD with a 3TB drive and then using amahi. I am wondering if i should upgrade my under-powered GPU (Nvidia Geforce GTX 580) and replace it with AMD Radeon RX 480 or help my family and build a local NAS.
 
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Well, I would not recommend using only 1 drive for a NAS. I would use 2 HDDs and go for a Raid 1 setup to protect against data loss in the event one of the drives fails. a 960 SFF will support 2x 2.5in drives.

As for doing that or upgrading a GPU - its your call.
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Well, I would not recommend using only 1 drive for a NAS. I would use 2 HDDs and go for a Raid 1 setup to protect against data loss in the event one of the drives fails. a 960 SFF will support 2x 2.5in drives.

As for doing that or upgrading a GPU - its your call.
 
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Can you recommend any 2.5in drives which make around 2.5TB when combined.
 
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I would not suggest RAID 1.
I would have 1 drive for the files, and 1 drive for a backup.

RAID 1 is not a backup solution in way shape or form, i dont know why so many push raid 1 for. If the user deletes the file or it gets corrupted then you have the exact same problem on the other drive. The ONLY thing RAID1 does is protects against a drive failure. While backing up a copy of the data to another drive saves the data against drive failure, coruption, and deletion..


You said 3TB but what amounts of Data does your grandparents needs to store?
How many 2.5" drives can you fit into that sff tower??
 
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The only 2.5' drive that would do that in a pair (raid 1) is this Seagate 3TB. Two of these in RAID 1 would give you a total of 3TB of storage:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822178871

That said...2.5' drives aren't typically used for NAS, and Seagate drives at 3TB+ are notorious for high failure rates. If at ALL possible I'd recommend looking into getting a couple of proper 3.5' Western Digital Red NAS drives:

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($108.69 @ OutletPC)
Wireless Network Adapter: Asus PCE-AC56 PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter ($61.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $170.68
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-10-27 11:50 EDT-0400

 
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boosted1g

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His Dell is a SFF one that only takes 2.5" drives.
Not sure why you linked a wifi adapter, and at that price a powerline adapter would be much better, although for a old PC just being used as a NAS he can just go headless (no monitor) and plug it in the room with the router.
 
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1TB for them 1TB for me and room for expansion if any more pc's get added

sff tower = 2 2.5 drives
 
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boosted1g

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This 1tb for them and 1TB for you, is it for a backup of files, or for the original file?
 
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