u/krmikeb86

Hey everyone, new here. New to this whole thing, actually. This is my first build, mistakes were made, I am sure there were other or even better options out there, but this works for me.

I wanted to upgrade from a mini pc/nas combo that I was hosting a plex media server on. It was working fine, but transcoding would fail with subtitles, and also expansion was limited with the NAS I had (it was 4 bays).

I came across some videos about unraid and building your own home server and down the rabbit hole I went.

After shopping around, here is what I ended up with.

Jonsbo N6 Case

• i3-12100 (Quick Sync)
• MSI PRO B760M-A DDR4 II
• 32GB DDR4

• LSI 9207-8i HBA
• 1TB NVMe (cache/appdata)
• 2TB SSD (downloads)

• 7x 12TB array + 1x 12TB parity
• 1x 12TB separate personal drive

• Unraid (64GB Samsung USB boot).

I got all the parts in, put it together, got unraid set up and migrated my server over. I did add an extra fan attached to the HBA to ensure no overheating. You can see in the pics that my cable management leaves a lot to be desired, but everything is up and working well.

I had a few problems with my cache drive hanging, only to discovered it was formatted wrong. Fixed that problem and now everything has been running stable for 3 weeks. All in all, the total cost of these parts (minus the HDDs and the SSD) came out to under 800 USD. I am quite happy with that cost as buying another synology nas would have cost the same for less.

I do have a few more extra fans that I intend on mounting in the case as it starts warming up outside here, but for now the temps are staying very stable.

I would love to hear what you think of my setup.

Thanks!