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I built my own NAS for a total cost of £1000. 24TB physical drives, 16TB useable (Raid Z2). It runs Ubuntu LTS server edition and I spin up any containers I need in Docker using Portainer. Is it a point and click GUI that is friendly to all? No ... I have to manually create SMB mounts and the like in the terminal, but it's easy enough to keep running.

Hardware wise it's:

- Asrock Rack C246 WSI Mini ITX motherboard - 32GB ECC RAM (2x 16GB UDIMMS) - benefit of using the C246 chipset - Intel i3-9100T - 6 IronWolf 4TB NAS drives - 2U Short Depth rackmount chassis (so it fits in my network rack) - 1TB Samsung 850 Evo boot drive

Idles at 23W which is low enough for my tastes, ramps up to 65W under load (I spin the disks down after 10 minutes of inactivity, even doing that I'm only seeing about 10k load/unload cycles a year (drive is rated for 600k).

For the lazy-but-not-so-lazy you can just install Proxmox, as weird as that sounds at first. Still Debian based, still supports root on ZFS with the GUI installer, and then you get a virtualization/container host with a friendly GUI on top for free. You can even make you NFS/SMB/Whatever shares as containers if you want to compartmentalize.

There's also free distros like OpenMediaVault for making a NAS with a nice web UI.

Did you build this a while ago? 4TB drives are tiny nowadays. If so, the price isn’t really comparable is it?

About 2.5-3 years ago, yes.

Ever wrote a build log for that? Would love to read it.

I didn't I'm afraid, but it was just like building any other computer, except repinning the 24pin ATX connector for the motherboard as it uses a 4 pin connection only (still Molex branded).

> Asrock Rack C246 WSI Mini ITX

Who do I have to kill to get one :)

These peeps seem to have some in store: https://www.senetic.de/product/C246WSI but (a) I didn't find a way to change the language on the site to English, and (b) while they ship to several countries, those are mostly in Europe. If you can work with these restrictions, you might be in luck! (I have never ordered from this shop and can't vouch for them, but they seem legit.)

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