The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/jncunha on 2025-08-01 16:43:55+00:00.
I'm moving from my old NAS setup. I managed to get a Supermicro SC846BE1C‑R1K23B chassis. I also purchased a BPN‑SAS3‑846EL1‑N8 SAS3 backplane for the chassis so I have 8x Nvme lanes.
For components I'm thinking about this:
Motherboard: Supermicro X11DPi-N
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon Gold 5218
RAM: 8x 16GB DDR4 ECC
HBA: LSI 9305-16i
GPU: An old GTX 970 that I have spare
Since when I built my first NAS things have moved so fast that I completely lost track on the market and now I have no clue on what makes sense for NAS build. The list I'm providing is a combination of Reddit research and some ChatGPT.
I currently use Unraid and have media VMs running alongside data storage (*arr stack, Emby, etc).
In terms of prices I can get everything relatively cheap. I'm living in China so I can find thousands of ads on Taobao selling all these components.
Can someone share some opinion on the setup?