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Cake day: August 30th, 2023

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  • I bought wd red pros since people said they were quiet. I think they were comparing them to these type of enterprise drives because they are absolutely not quiet when seeking. I wouldn’t mind drives like this if they were in a closet or away from me but my nas is in my office/guest bedroom. I’ve since replaced the pros with red plus and they are MUCH quieter.










  • Just built one myself. Here’s what I used:

    • Jonesbo N2 case
    • Topton/CWWK/BKHD NAS motherboard from AliExpress - includes N5105 or J6412 processors, 2 M.2 slots and 2x ddr4 slots. They haven’t started rolling out N100 boards yet otherwise I would have gone for that.
    • 32gb ddr4
    • EVGA supernova 450gm power supply. Overkill but they don’t make many sfx power supplies that are fully modular.
    • 2x1tb nvme drives
    • Case has 5 hdd bays for a pretty decent amount of media storage.

    Cost me less than $600 USD not including any HDD. Modifying this a little could probably put you under $500

    Prior to this I used an old Optiplex 3040 sff ($100) with a 1tb HDD and core i3 6100 and replaced the cd drive with a SSD bay so I could boot the OS off of that. It worked for a budget but didn’t have any expandable storage.