I can't keep my old computer, because theres no space for it in the room where I'm moving to, and it's all going to shit anyway.
Since refurbished SAS drives cost like a $100 less than refurbished SATA drives I wanted to put together a reasonably powered SFF computer with A cheap SAS controller at least 16TB of storage plus Backup or redundancy for my video library, and 1TB plus backup for my main disk.
Or I could build a really cheap NAS that takes SAS drives, and buy a cheap minipc to use for my desktop if that could be done cheaper
I want to try to do everything for around $500 USD, but i know that's a stretch.
The only reason I want to use SAS is that the drives are cheaper, if there is a cheaper SATA solution I'd go with that.
Plus since I'll have everything in my room. Would WD drives be alot quieter than Seagate?
Just for reference, my old system had:
GA-x79-ud5 motherboard
32GB DDR ecc RAM
2x 1tb crucual mx500 ssd ( both dead now)
4x refurbished Ultrastar He6 6TB - HUS726060ALA640 (1 dead, 3 loud as fuck)
AMD RX 580 graphic card
What will give me the best bang for my buck?