Building a home NAS on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC (2018)
"Building a high performing home NAS"<p>"I was averaging 60-113mbps depending on the size of files being moved. This was a successful build in my mind! After selling my QNAP NAS, I came out ahead on my expenses for the build."<p>113Mbps is considered "high performing"?<p>"on a shoestring budget with the Rock64 SBC"<p>"TOTAL: $172.39 CAD before tax"<p>This is without the cost of the hard drives, doesn't seem ot include the cost of an enclosure, and results in:<p>* 1 Quad-core A53<p>* 2GB ram (the 4GB version is $45 USD without shipping, so it couldn't have been this one), which you can't ever change<p>* 0 SATA ports<p>* 1 USB 3 port<p>* 2 USB 2 ports<p>* 1x GbE<p>I would probably rather consider an HP Micro Server (e.g. <a href="https://www.amazon.com//dp/B079MFYDSL" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com//dp/B079MFYDSL</a> ), which for $282 provides:<p>* 1.6GHz dual-core Opteron<p>* 2 DIMM slots, 8GB DDR4 provided<p>* 5x SATA ports (4x in the disk bays, 1 in the optical bay)<p>* 4 USB3 ports, 2 USB2 ports, internal USB port<p>* 2x GbE<p>* 2x PCIe slots<p>* Hardware RAID support (I wouldn't use it, but it's available).<p>It would meet all of these requirements the poster had:<p>* Shoestring budget, under $300 preferred<p>* Scalable, not locked into a certain number of drive bays<p>* Gigabit ethernet<p>* USB 3.0 (for fast backups to my backup drives)<p><i>Preferred: compatibility with open source NAS offerings (OpenMediaVault, FreeNAS, etc.)<p></i> Low power usage (I don’t have high computing requirements for this system, so it doesn’t need to be driving up my electricity bill to run every month)<p>(I guess the Rock64 may have lower power consumption, but I don't think vastly lower).<p>I have a much older Microserver G7 (or NL54), which was much cheaper (I paid about $100), and it's great.<p>Edit: formatting