Posts: 3,212
Joined: Apr 2010
Reputation:
62
One suggestion before the parts: dual channel RAM is not needed for a NAS. In fact, one stick is better as it uses less power.
Posts: 299
Joined: Oct 2010
Reputation:
0
maxinc
Senior Member
Posts: 299
Think at this stage if you are going to use the NAS for anything other than storage. Like Poofy mentioned, if you plan to do sab, torrents etc you may want a powerful cpu, otherwise, the cheapest you can find.
Posts: 654
Joined: Dec 2010
Reputation:
5
My suggestion in planning... make sure you have an upgrade plan. You want your case to accomodate possible upgrades as well as your mobo. You can always buy a SATA controller if needed, but make sure your mobo also has adequate SATA connections.
Posts: 299
Joined: Oct 2010
Reputation:
0
maxinc
Senior Member
Posts: 299
Never use PCI SATA controllers. PCI has limited bus speed and will make your system dead slow once you connect enough drives. Get something with at least one PCI-E 4x slot which can accommodate an additional 8 SATA ports. PCI-E 1x controllers would only give you 2 extra ports.
Posts: 3,212
Joined: Apr 2010
Reputation:
62
I say AMD. My NASes are Intel, but that is only because they are built out of leftover hackintosh parts.
Posts: 3,212
Joined: Apr 2010
Reputation:
62
That Foxconn has only four sata ports. Try to look for one with six and you will spend less on sata controllers. Look at ATX too, ATX fits in most good NAS cases.
Posts: 8,569
Joined: Nov 2010
Reputation:
202
eskro
Posting Freak
Posts: 8,569
im confused on all of those PCI ...
PCI Slots
PCI Express x1
PCI Express x16
PCI Express 2.0 x16
what the... ??
Posts: 299
Joined: Oct 2010
Reputation:
0
maxinc
Senior Member
Posts: 299
2011-01-20, 00:35
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-20, 00:47 by maxinc.)
On the MB in Poofy's link, the green ones are PCI and are useless.
The orange ones are PCI-E. The small ones are 1x while the large one is 16x
PCI express x16---------------->4000MB/s
PCI express x8 ------->2000MB/s
PCI express x4 ---->1000MB/s
PCI express x2 -->500MB/s
PCI express x1 ->250MB/s
PCI ->133MB/s
PCI is an ancient bus and the 133MB/s is shared by all devices connected to the bus. Modern hard drives can easily top that which makes the PCI bus the bottleneck.
Posts: 8,569
Joined: Nov 2010
Reputation:
202
eskro
Posting Freak
Posts: 8,569
oh i see!!
and what about the --> PCI Express 2.0 x16 ??
Posts: 299
Joined: Oct 2010
Reputation:
0
maxinc
Senior Member
Posts: 299
As you may guess, has double the bandwidth. Don't really need it for storage but some high-end video cards may use it.