Building The PERFECT Budget Home Server

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#homeserver #homelab #nas

[spawn_sirius]

Nice, idk what a home server is, but its entertaining

[Xedhadeaus]

I bought an old datto 4 bay Nas for 114 that came with 2 1tb drives, I replaced those but it feels good having the ability to back up files en masse without needing to either take out drives or leave my main PC on. I just copy whatever I need from my main pc while I'm using it, and then move it with a smaller office PC or my laptop later.

[vonwerderc]

Just for reference, you can still access your data on unraid when a disk fails. The parity drive is used to emulate the data. It will just be slow to access once you add the replacement disk and start to rebuild parity.

[init_yeah]

11:41 😉 when you had a couple of drinks

[Shadow]

I like that SNES Donkey Kong music at the end, nice touch lol

[JonathanTalksHW]

Great server you have there, my server is a Xeon cpu with 12gb ddr3 and it’s in a big super micro case with hot swap hdd bays but I put some quiet fans on mines.

[kamertonaudiophileplayer]

It's a quite cool. I use currently Orange Pi for the purpose.

[gsestream]

sata3 ssd's are just fine for a potato server. usually you can get 2-6+ sata connectors on a normal mb. by default. only 1-2 m.2 ssd on normal mb.

[Akod]

Very nice build, as always! I do wonder how well that little celeron can handle game servers, especially since you mentioned Minecraft, which tends to like higher clock speeds. I suppose that would probably depend on how many people are on the server and how long that low power chip can hold its burst frequency at a time for. You mentioned that you've had this deployed for the last 9 months, have you tried hosting game servers yet?

Also, for those interested in the cheap used x79/x99 xeon route like he did for his $183 AliExpress build or some of the other budget build videos he released, that would be a cheaper option and offer more performance, but the power draw difference is pretty big, so the better choice would greatly depend on what you want to use it for and how much you pay for power. My x99 xeon server pulls around 75W from the wall at idle and around 100-110W under load with no mechanical hard drives (which each pull 7-9W). There are lower power x99 cpus than what I have, but at best they would only drop the power consumption by about 25W under load. In comparison, this build under load probably pulls somewhere in the ballpark of 45-55W, most of which is being pulled by his 4 mechanical drives. Another big thing to consider is the chinese x79/x99 motherboards (and even some name brand boards) often times won't let you boot past the bios without a gpu of some kind installed, so you'll need to invest in a low power gpu (think gt210, gt710, etc.) that you might not even utilize, depending on your use case.

[Jwalker]

Interesting server. I was surprised you weren't going with another xeon, but if its doing the job then it's fine. Ive got a old haswell system i was thinking of turning into a server. Only issue is it has stopped working which i think is the PSU fault. I was also just giving an old pc by a family friend which is also a haswell PC and another free kit of 16gb ddr3. So i hope to make a working server out of these PCs. I may end up checking out haswell xeons and see if theres a i7 4790 type xeon CPUs available. Ive got an odd feeling a H87 wont run a xeon like the sandy bridge CPUs did.

[omid]

For the powersupply if u are in eu where power prices are high 40ct/kwh You shoud get more like 300w gold rates bc if u use it lower then 50% load its absolutly ineffizient

[Thewickedjon]

i've been a long time unraid user,

currently I have a 24tb total array (across x8 3tb drives)
on an x99 xeon e5 2699 v3 (18 cores, 36threads)
with 128gb ddr4 ecc ram
and an rtx 4060 gpu for transcoding.


for a while i've wanted to offload my roms collection somewhere else, cuz i'm running low on disk space to feed plex/jellyfin/emby.


And i've been looking for a short-depth rack-mountable chassis that I can put on my 9u network rack and provision a 2nd unraid that I can use as a plain-jane NAS,

and you've just given me what I needed.

Thank you for this! new subscriber here.

great stuff!

[kozekistudio]

subscribed because you have an anime jellyfin server like me

[DaveAndrus]

Really liked your build video! I just bought the mobo from your link to make a similar NAS, even though I have a higher power TrueNAS system. I like that 2U case, but I'm curious about the amount of fan noise you're hearing. Are you in any way controlling the fan speeds, or are they just running full speed all the time? Thanks!

[alecuaalecu]

Very good video! It's very nice until the ugreen nas comes around for me to build my first home server. Running plex server and a valheim server on a gaming PC in the summer, tends to get toasty.

[jarman]

Average r/homelab user 🤣 I have a dormant dual low power Xeon server and AMD FX NAS, which got replaced by 2 N95 mini pcs. So quiet! power is cheap where I live so not much difference there.

[StefanErik]

Can you please send me pc. My parents refuse to buy me a new one and I use a ryzen 3 1200 and gtx 1050 with 8 gigs of ram. cant even play games at 1080p over 100 fps, so i run games at 720p