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saintsfan0990

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Hey, I want to do a kind of out there build. I would like to build as small of a for-factor PC but it must meet certain criteria. I posted in the Forum because it only seemed right, in conjunction with concern for the size of the Motherboard. So here are the requirements ☺

1.) No less than 10+ Tera-bytes of storage, with raid 1. So ok I'll settle for less than 30 but with the price of HHDs now at 10 TB, i'm trying to get as much as I can, plus I dont plan to build for a couple months so price drops expected still- so I'm thinking 4 hard drives }+ 1 ssd for primary OS maybe, just 256gb SSD or not ssd, I don't care to much about that

2.) need to have option for 2 optical drives, and while keeping this in mind with the disk drives because now space is a little bit tighter

3.)Must have room for GTX 1080 or smaller size card of similar capability

4.)Needs room for 1 extra externet card or must come with 2 lanports by default

5.)Intel processor only

6.)32 gb ram or will consider 64gb

So, these are the only requirements. But, also actually, it need to be able to fit in the bottom of my back pack. What are your suggestions?
 
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with your expansion card requirement and frankly the optical drives too, you're looking at a microATX motherboard and a microATX tower to get it as small as possible. Travel sized like you are talking about generally requires miniITX build though.

If you can live with only 1 optical drive there's one "travel" case I'm aware of in the microATX size range.
 
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anyways a quick build with most of what you wanted. What exactly are you trying to do with this build?

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($218.67 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI B350M MORTAR Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($94.99 @ B&H)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($399.99 @ Corsair)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($84.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate IronWolf 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($369.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate IronWolf 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($369.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1080 8GB TURBO Video Card ($499.99 @ Amazon)
Case: BitFenix Prodigy M Midnight Black MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($83.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($68.89 @ OutletPC)
Optical Drive: LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($46.88 @ OutletPC)
Wired Network Adapter: Intel E1G42ETBLK PCI-Express x4 10/100/1000 Mbps Network Adapter ($34.00 @ Amazon)
Total: $2272.37
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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okcnaline

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Any budget?

And there's not much you can do with small and >10TB of storage. And 2 optical drives? Either you can fit a 1080 or 2 drives.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($404.88 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V 86.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock X99E-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA2011-3 Narrow Motherboard ($247.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($224.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($89.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($401.98 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition Video Card ($698.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Silverstone RVZ01B Mini ITX Desktop Case ($78.13 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair SF 600W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($119.25 @ OutletPC)
Optical Drive: Silverstone SST-SOB02 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($144.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $2471.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I would consider hearing about it.
 
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VM Host for virtual machines, local + remote
Primary/secondary gaming rig for use with my 55" 4k LG for when I am not gaming with my laptop
NAS storage device + small partition to have virtual disk for apache web server
NAS for backing up 1080p video
NAS for everything else
Pretty much 30-56% NAS for un-editted video and some post production video. I want to use it in conjunction with my laptop so I can keep more free space on my laptop, more or less.
 
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saintsfan0990

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VM Host for virtual machines, local + remote
Primary/secondary gaming rig for use with my 55" 4k LG for when I am not gaming with my laptop
NAS storage device + small partition to have virtual disk for apache web server
NAS for backing up 1080p video
NAS for everything else
Pretty much 30-56% NAS for un-editted video and some post production video. I want to use it in conjunction with my laptop so I can keep more free space on my laptop, more or less.
 
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okcnaline

okcnaline

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I assume you're going for unRAID? If so, then maybe this would work.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V4 2.2GHz 12-Core Processor ($1099.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12DXi4 55.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($64.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus X99-M WS Micro ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($263.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($475.66 @ Amazon)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($80.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($80.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($80.49 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Crucial MX300 275GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($89.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($401.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($401.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($401.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 Nano 4GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($498.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 Nano 4GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($498.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: BitFenix Prodigy M Midnight Black MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($83.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($144.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $4668.81
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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I contemplating making this my suitcase build. I found this post along time ago about this dude who built his portable desktop into a brief case and I'm considering allocating my money towards that. I really want a new laptop, but the laptop alone won't work for storage and I don't want to go flash memory or usb drive. Does anyone know anygood walkthroughs. I want to keep interface fully remote but want to build huge battery. Anyone know any sources? I was reading that you could wire as many lithium ion battiers toghther as you want and make your own battery backup. I want to make hybrid desktop + laptop, I will probably prototype case out of plexi and wood, any good idea's on this?
 
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okcnaline

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E-mail LinusTechTips about this jerryrig? I guess?

I'm thinking you should get a powerful laptop and then somehow get a battery to fit in your backpack to power "an a$$" (a NAS). Otherwise, any graphic cards will be too powerful hungry to run as a render server.
 
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