Building my own NAS, some help required

Hi All,

Was on the market for NAS, but whatever I liked was around 600$. I figured I could put together small comp and use it as a NAS.

Here's what I plan to use:

COOLMAX CS-480-Black W/O PSU Black Steel / Plastic ATX Mid Tower - $24.99

Foxconn K8S755A-6ELRS 754 SiS 755 ATX AMD Motherboard - $37.99

EDIMAX EN-9230TX-32 10/ 20/ 100/ 200/ 1000/ 2000Mbps PCI Gigabit Fast Ethernet Adapter - $15.99

POWMAX 6100A SFX12V 230W Power Supply - $14.99

CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT400C3 - $52.99

AMD Sempron 64 2600+ Palermo 1.6GHz Socket 754 Processor Model SDA2600BXBOX - $29.99

Scythe S-FLEX SFF21D 120mm Case Fan - $9.99

Total comes to $186.93.

I already have 2x 1tb HDDs. Also, got older AGP videocard, which I won't really need in this comp anyway.

I plan to use it as network storage, run torrent/p2p clients on it , and upnp and web servers. So, what do you guys think it this setup enough for what I want? Any suggestions and recommendations are welcome.

if you are planning on using this as a web server as well, you'd be better server investing in a more powerful processor. the sempron may do well but the limitations of those chips make me a little nervous.

but i'm like tim allen...i will always spend a little extra for more power. :)

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Originally Posted by unclescrooge

if you are planning on using this as a web server as well, you'd be better server investing in a more powerful processor. the sempron may do well but the limitations of those chips make me a little nervous.

but i'm like tim allen...i will always spend a little extra for more power. :)

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Second that opinion. For about $20 more, you can get a full blown L2 cache Athlon processor. Even more, that SIS chipset is a huge bottleneck. For a few more dollars, get a Via board, IMO.

Thanks. Eventually I went with Athlon X2 64 3800+ cpu. I figured as well that dual core would've been better. Although for webserver there will be 2-3 ppl connected at most.
I'm more worried running about upnp server and torernt client and may some other background tasks.