I have a small ITX case sitting around getting dust that I could turn into a NAS box. Originally I was going to use a laptop but all of the retired laptop I have don't support SATA (one is so old it only supports SCSI, no USB, no PC card slot, 12.8k modem, and only serial network, try streaming BD quality video over that!)
So anyway I'd need a mobo. A cheap ITX board with built in cheap CPU would work. It will need to be able to support single 3TB (and possibly second one so 2 SATA minimum). I can get cheap USB storage for OS and I plan to use freeNAS software. I'd probably need a decent power supply the only quality name brand PSU I have around are all in the 1Kw range and too long to fit the case I have
EDIT: it won't be streaming or media nas, it'd be mostly file storage and sharing between my desktops and laptops so I don't need to keep power guzzling desktops on just for files.
So anyway I'd need a mobo. A cheap ITX board with built in cheap CPU would work. It will need to be able to support single 3TB (and possibly second one so 2 SATA minimum). I can get cheap USB storage for OS and I plan to use freeNAS software. I'd probably need a decent power supply the only quality name brand PSU I have around are all in the 1Kw range and too long to fit the case I have
EDIT: it won't be streaming or media nas, it'd be mostly file storage and sharing between my desktops and laptops so I don't need to keep power guzzling desktops on just for files.