what's going on youtube it's your boy midas here and today i'm going to be building my very own
nas so my network attached storage that's what nas stands for so basically what it's
going to do is help in storing all of my 4k videos my photos it's even gonna act as
my home media center so it's gonna host all of my movies and stuff like that to my left right
here i've got an old pc that i built about two years ago maybe three now so about two
two to three years ago and i built it for you know just some personal use nothing crazy
just you know a middle of the line kind of a pc nothing over the top not no gaming pc or nothing
like that this right here is a rosewill server chases and the reason why i've got this rules will
server chases is because when you're trying to build a home server the number one thing you have
to think about is the casing so this case in this traditional you know conventional style casing
they're not designed you know to hold server builds you know if you build because a server
is a pc it's all it is it's nothing you know different from a regular pc the kind of case that
that pc goes into and the os that that you know pc runs is what makes it a server so we're going to
be running the on raid software on you know this pc build when i transfer all the different things
that i'm going to take out of this old pc and put it into this new pc case so this case can hold up
to eight hdd drives and that's the most important thing you have to consider when gate getting the
case for a server build it has to be able to hold you know a good amount of storage and have the
opportunity to be expanded you know expansion is important because your server keeps growing
it never really just stays the same the server provides cloud storage you know like think google
drive think um dropbox so think of having your own personal version of those you know cloud storage
options that's what you can do with your own nas storage you can access all these different things
from anywhere and you can increase the storage as you need that's the cool thing about it so it's
very customizable and it's cool to have especially if you're like me and you you know work with
lots of large files so what i want to do right now is build my own version of a storage you know
something that i can use for storing my 4k videos and my 4k photos or just high quality photos
as well as you know something that's going to act as my media center also got a few things in
front of me here i'll just let you guys know what they are this is a 120 millimeter fan from noctua
these two right here i've got five of these by the way and then there's two smaller ones here
they're 80 millimeter fans also from nachwa because i've heard the fans in you know this
rose wheel case they're not the best that they're basically archaic when you're working with tons of
hdds in one space you know tons of storage devices always working then it's going to run hot a lot so
get quiet fans that are nice and work very well inside this samsung case i've got a one terabyte
nvme ssd so for fast storage right here i've also got my asus 10 gigabit network card so this is
going to allow me transfer data very quickly right here i've got two hdd drives seagate iron wolf you
know that's all it is so these drives are gonna be really good for you know the storage because
they're 12 terabytes each so let's go ahead and see what's in here pull out these parts
and then i'll open this up and then we'll start to build inside this pc uh case reckless torque
okay so that's all the old stuff that we took out of the old pc they're a little dusty
so i'm gonna go ahead and use this uh cool
two-in-one air duster and vacuum so you can find this down in the description if you're interested
you should also use a cloth to clean uh when you're working so not just the air duster okay
now i've got the rose wheel case i'm just gonna take off the side so i can go ahead and install
all the parts okay out with the old and in with the new look at that style of cable like
i don't know i don't mess with that i like the new style so the smaller ones
i'm a real one check my fabric look at my fabric at this atlas i point
look at my fabric during the process after moving the old parts into the new you know pc case and
installing all the additional parts all the extra parts the pc decided not to turn on so something
was wrong i decided oh my god here we go again you know because i've dealt with this kind of
stuff when building windows pcs where it just won't start you know off the rip so sometimes
you have to tweak something something's not seated correctly or a pc part is bad or it's not
supplying enough power there's so many different reasons that it could be but you have to kind of
diagnose it by using the process of elimination so what i did was for all the new parts i didn't
really change anything i just kept them as is because honestly new parts have less of a chance
to be bad as the old parts i'm not saying they can be bad there's some doa items that i've received
personally but it's not common you know at least not for me i i've not really experienced you know
doa like lots dead on arrivals what doa means by the way so the first part that i eliminated were
the ram sticks i went ahead and picked up some new ram sticks from amazon just to quickly you
know see if the ram sticks that i have on there were bad because the code on the motherboard kept
stopping at the ram spot so i assumed that was a problem so when i switched out the ram sticks
it came on once for one second it just came on and it was done it didn't come back on the next
time i tried it i changed absolutely nothing like i said pc sometimes you can't really understand
what's going on until you keep you just got to keep trying so next up i went ahead and picked up
a motherboard to replace the one that was already on there so the micro atx motherboard i replaced
it with an atx motherboard something larger with more power and you know has more slots i was
going to eventually upgrade this piece so i said i might as well grab it now if the motherboard is
broken as soon as the motherboard arrived i went ahead and switched out the old one the micro atx
for the new one the atx and i plugged everything else in you know the way they're supposed to be
i used the old ram sticks not the new ones i put those to the side and i use all the other parts
the cpu from the old pc the graphics card from the old pc you know all the stuff the nvme ssd
and everything else i plug them all on there and then i try to power it and it just won't power
so i kept struggling and wondering what you know the problem was in this case and i thought it was
the power switch the cable that connects between uh the power button on the case and the power on
the motherboard so i kept tweaking and switching and trying to figure out what was going on there
it just wouldn't power the motherboard would light up it would have some like little um
light you know getting some passive electricity so it was getting powered but it just wasn't getting
enough power i don't think it was so at this point i started thinking that the motherboard was dead
on arrival so a doa part now i was starting to get pissed you know get angry at this point like
come on this is the second part i'm switching i might as well build a whole new pc at this
point you know but then it hit me and i thought to myself it looks like the entire system just
isn't getting enough power and logically when you think about it i've now added a ton more
parts than what was there before so i had a 550 tx or a tx 550 from corsair so only provided 550
wattage of power and when i initially built the old pc i hadn't considered that i would you know
need to expand it and add all these different parts i'm running you know multiple drives
off the same system running you know a 10 gigabit lan ports running you know graphics card rams and
possibly expanding from there honestly i was also working with a smaller board that was you know
pulling from that power source so i thought to myself you know what let's try changing the power
source completely let's try you know feeding this entire system with more power so at that point i
was switching out the third part from the old pc so i was like wondering like at this point i might
as well build an entirely new pc so i upgraded from a tx 550 to the rm850x so this one's rated
80 plus gold it provides 300 watts more power than the you know 550 that i had there initially so i
quickly installed that you know swap them out all i had to do was push the power button once
everything in the entire system lit up just seemed like this was the missing piece of the puzzle and
i was extremely excited that it was finally done all that was left at this point was completely
setting up the unraid servers you know so allocating disks for you know different purposes
setting up my whole media server so i can watch movies from whatever part of the house from my
media center so you just download movies and you can put them on your server and then watch them
like netflix so you can create your own version of netflix basically which is super cool in my
you know opinion i had some help from my brother he's really really good with this kind of stuff
you know network servers and stuff like that so he's already got one going on he's actually
the reason why i decided to you know build my own nas server because i honestly wouldn't have cared
too much about a net server that would have kept languishing you know using uh external
hard drives which honestly is terrible you know it's just too much work having to plug them in
and bring them around it's just and it piles up it adds up and if you lose one it's just gone
it's bro everything's gone but with this system you can create backups and whatnot and it's all
on you know your local network so it's on it's on a server a different pc is uh dedicated to storing
all of your you know heavy content i'm going to take this down into the basement and i'm going
to just set it down there for now i intend to build an entire server rack soon so i'm going to
have a few more things there which i'll talk about like my security system for my home i'm going to
show you guys how i'm you know going to set it up using this server that way i have access to
video footage and stuff like that all the time at the end of the process i learned a lot more about
building pieces and troubleshooting problems and this is just what happens experience is the best
teacher you learn a lot the more you know you do things the more you live you know the more you
engage in stuff but out of all of those parts i ended up getting rid of the motherboard because i
the one i got was only 20 maybe or 30 more than the one that was already there and honestly i
wanted more power i'm eventually going to have to upgrade the system so i just said i might as well
keep the motherboard so the motherboard didn't seem like it was a problem the main culprit
was the power supply so that had to be changed 100 but the motherboard didn't have to be changed as
well as a ram stick so i didn't change the ram sticks i used the ram sticks from the old pc
and i used the cpu as well as the gpu from the old system so all i changed all i added into the new
system was the case something else i changed was the motherboard which i just talked about
moved from micro atx to atx uh something else i changed were the fans in the case because the fans
that were initially in there were very archaic and loud you guys probably can't hear it because
this entire system is just it's been going this entire time and you can't hear anything it's a
super quiet system and i love it i love all parts of it so far another thing that i've
added to the system is a 10 gigabit lan port so this 10 gigabit lan port is going to allow for
faster data transfers and since this is a server that's extremely important i need data to move
quickly between different you know paths for storage i have two sata drives so they're the
slowest kind of drives you'll find out there there's ssds nvmes but those are very pricey
so get in like 12 terabytes of that good luck with you know the pricing on that it's gonna be
crazy is what i'm saying and mechanical drives are better for you know storing a bunch of just
stuff that you don't access all the time infrequently accessed um files and finally
for this diy build i've got a one terabyte nvme ssd so a cache pool is going to hold things like
my plex server you know things like virtual machines like windows basically things that
are graphic intensive like apps and stores and stuff like that so if you do work from home that
requires you know you having to store a lot of footage save a lot of files and all of that having
a home server might be something that you want to consider so if you're looking to build your
own home server i'd like you guys to comment down below if you have any questions about it about the
process about what i went through to build mine i hope you guys have enjoyed this video if you did
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