Build Your Own NAS - Step by Step Guide

[@nielderfp]

I've been using UNRAID for a few years and am very happy with it. My MB is a server type with a Pentium CPU and 16G RAM. The MB has an onboard USB A socket for the boot drive. I've setup a parity check on the first Saturday of the month starting at 17:00, it takes about 15 hours to complete.

[@704Productions]

Thanks! I built my Unraid rig a few months ago and this would have greatly helped me avoid a few hassles. I'll be updating my system this summer and I'll definitely be referring back to this video to keep me in the straight path!!

[@ruimoura]

This is fire, best step by step ever made on this subject. I believe you just “sold me” that case, it’s incredible. Take good care and keep up with this awesome and detailed videos. I’m building my first Unraid setup soon, the case is decided 😂

[@johnedison04]

Your the best in step by step it helps me a lot!

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

Thanks

[@MikeBob2023]

Thank you Chris! It's awesome to see you sharing this new project with your viewers. (And it's also cool that you're putting the parts from your son's old rig to good use. 👍🏼) (And look out, Wendell: Chris Flannigan is getting into networking!)

[@moonstomper68]

Have literally just built an Unraid server in my silent base 801 as I had just upgraded my main system into the King 95 Pro after watch your build guide and review Christopher. As for yourself lots of drive bays was the reason for that chasis choice.

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

Good choice for the NAS. I always enjoy learning something new

[@moonstomper68]

@@ChristopherFlannigan One thing, the single cache drive leaves data unprotected until mover clears it down. I created a cache with 2 SSD's using zfs and mirrored to provide redundancy, I can always add a third later for a zfs pool working similar to raid 0 + 1

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

Yes this is the next thing for me to look at. All my drives are in main system holding the files that were on the hard drives. Once these are moved over planning to expand the cache

[@briancoleman6709]

This is a wonderful tutorial. I've got the Fractal R5 waiting to build my Unraid server in - I like these Fractal cases a lot.

[@TheSwayzeTrain]

Great timing, I literally just started researching NAS to provide how shall I put it, 'yarrrrr matey TV' to family members in different parts of the country. I'm considering getting a Synology NAS and loading it with Plex. Alternatively building my own NAS with second hand parts is another idea Im toying with.

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

Looking forward to finding out what it can do

[@AWR1ddle]

just what I needed, looking to put together a server build myself

[@JAYFLOPROBEATS]

Man I'd have to follow this video to the T if I was to build my own NAS System. Glad you went step by step on this. I can see myself now trying to build this from memory; mess around and blow my whole house up, damn computer gonna start smoking because I set something up wrong, 😂. Certain things I did see on the Unraid platform was gibberish to me. Like for example, the part where I think it said Allocation then across from it it said "High-Water", what does that mean?

[@gloth]

no matter how many drives and/or cache drives you have, you are still transferring data over the network. 113mb/sec, that seems like an gigabit connection

[@dixonmak]

Thank you for showing us how to use UNRAID. Would love to give it a try. Looking forward to your followup videos on this topic. I do have one question...at 21:38 mark, is it safe to assume I have to connect the UNRAID computer to my local network before reboot so I can get an assigned IP address? Cheers.

[@shetho1]

What a brilliant video I allways learn more off your videos than others are you going to be doing a update video for the server

[@kgiannak]

Great stuff! What about power efficiency? What's the power draw of this build when idling?

[@hibruh5888]

Can i share the files or storage to my friends? Like google drive and stuff

[@markwith140]

I'm going to build a NAS at some point. I have a consumer Asustor NAS, but as a project and maybe to have an off site backup capability I fancy building a NAS. One comment, I assume that the motherboard has only a 1gbit network connection and you used this for your network connection. If so then this will be the major bottleneck in your speed... I bought a cheap 2.5Gbit switch and upgraded my pc with a 2.5gig pcie card (the Asustor has 2.5gig connections built in). I get transfer rates of around 280Mb/s. One question I had was the use of different sized drives, I was happy to hear that Unraid supports this, how is that working out for you? I have a bunch of drives of different sizes that I could use in a home built NAS, and if it works well then I will use them in my project

[@hyperjohnable]

Just wanted to say: great video. It made me to check the case. But I fell on the fractal marketing naming issue. Apparently this case has a lot of variations like: lite, compact, compact lite, etc that makes everything so complicated. Can someone explains ?

[@rogerhalt3991]

I’m torn between this conventional style of build or the Jonsbo N3 mitx. Do you have experience with the later?

[@yogibbear]

"I can't see it, but it'll drive me mad knowing it's there". Yeah I hate that too! 🤣

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

It's a very real problem

[@danielbiniaz4857]

Chris - AMAZING WORK!!!! Im looking to replicate your build but I have my own SSDs & HDDs and will be looking to use unRAID also. My question is that the Motherboard doesn't seem to be available anymore. What would you go for instead? I use my NAS for Plex and Docker containers but Plex data takes up a lot of storage. Would this build be worth it for my use case? Also have you thought of setting up Discord Channel so your followers can communicate about your builds or give you ideas about future builds they might wanna see? Id enjoy asking others about their builds also. Many thanks😊

[@Marcinos1985]

Great video

[@davedenis]

If you did want to add a GPU what would be the max length when this case is in storage mode?

[@kp-gbuniqueinterest]

I have so many NAS that I want to create my own. Everytime I buy one a few years later they want to stop supporting it. Wasting money when I could have bought more HDD. My bf built me a gaming PC and love it. Now I want to a NAS. My gaming PC has 10TB HDd drives for the games so this NAS is used for basically Media and phone back up. I have a lot of stuff that from my late 90s early 2000s day I do not want to get rid of. What would I need just for home media and backing up phones? your system looks like its more for a gaming nas

[@dirkgoodman4282]

Going from your accent I can tell you're from Northern Ireland. I've just found your channel. I'm wondering if you have a business here building/selling pcs and also maintenance?

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

No, I only build for KZbin

[@markod7662]

Network attached storage.

[@AnonymousMiner2]

This Gud. I make soon. Thank yew.

[@iam_anderdingus]

Appreciate you are a build channel, but I think I would opt for a Synology NAS - something like a 4 or 5 bay. Probably quieter and less power consumption. Oh and love the outdo music ❤

[@ryangardner9683]

How much does this cost

[@markod7662]

11:15 you do not have enough RGB in this rig.

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

Too much for my liking

[@markod7662]

@@ChristopherFlannigan why do you care then, how the fan is placed then? It can not be seen.

[@ChristopherFlannigan]

I can see it in my head

[@dantemlima]

Thank you for the video. Wonderful information. One impression to share is that you speak too fast and your accent is difficult to parse for someone like me who is not a native english speaker.

[@AkhiSyahmi_]

The bottleneck you are having is mainly because you use gigabit connection. Plug in a 10 gigabit card, and you're golden.