- Jun 12, 2001
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Hi,
I am looking for a new cheap NAS for home. My main goal is the use as much sata disks as I can (have pcie 6 sata card, so no need for the motherboard have tons of sata, and I have some usb to sata cases, this is not my main concern) and use ZFS, so not much RAM now, but I want to be able to have much more on future time.
I am looking at two CPU's now: Athlon 3000G and Pentium Gold G6400. The low Ryzen (1200AF and 1600AF) never show on retailers, they would be ok also.
For motherboard I looked for some cheap AM4 using A320, B450 and just knew A520 won't run this cpu. Main contenders were Gigabyte B450M DS3H and Asus Prime B450M-A/CSM (this has 6 sata and USB 3.1 Gen2).
For the Intel part I looked far less (I favor for the AMD system as I have one, and future troubleshoot would be easier. Also Intel changes socket too often, but it Intel system is better I can change, no problem at all).
The 3000G is great at $49, but it is not easy to find it at this price. This way I am here looking for hints on how to build this box. Will start using 16GB and have a mATX case for it.
Thanks for all that would jump in to help.
matheus
I am looking for a new cheap NAS for home. My main goal is the use as much sata disks as I can (have pcie 6 sata card, so no need for the motherboard have tons of sata, and I have some usb to sata cases, this is not my main concern) and use ZFS, so not much RAM now, but I want to be able to have much more on future time.
I am looking at two CPU's now: Athlon 3000G and Pentium Gold G6400. The low Ryzen (1200AF and 1600AF) never show on retailers, they would be ok also.
For motherboard I looked for some cheap AM4 using A320, B450 and just knew A520 won't run this cpu. Main contenders were Gigabyte B450M DS3H and Asus Prime B450M-A/CSM (this has 6 sata and USB 3.1 Gen2).
For the Intel part I looked far less (I favor for the AMD system as I have one, and future troubleshoot would be easier. Also Intel changes socket too often, but it Intel system is better I can change, no problem at all).
The 3000G is great at $49, but it is not easy to find it at this price. This way I am here looking for hints on how to build this box. Will start using 16GB and have a mATX case for it.
Thanks for all that would jump in to help.
matheus