Building the Ultimate DIY NAS on AMD, Ft. Level1Techs, Unraid, & ZFS (Part 1/2)

We're finally building our own NAS / media server, and we're using Unraid with ZFS to do it. This first part is all about the hardware. Wendell from Level1Techs is helping.
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In this video, we'll be assembling our own DIY server. We're using the following parts for this build:

ASRock Rack X470D4U2-2T AM4 Motherboard w/ IPMI (Amazon): https://geni.us/cqFS
AMD Ryzen R5 3600 (Amazon): https://geni.us/XMMNrW
SilverStone CS381 (Amazon): https://geni.us/1fqCikA
Cryorig C7 cooler (Amazon): https://geni.us/Dp35EL
AMD RX 5700 (Amazon): https://geni.us/YHAbFc
Old NetApp disk shelf

This two-part series will offer a loose guide to how you might go about building your own NAS for a DIY solution. We're using ZFS on Unraid for our DIY NAS, but this part focuses on the hardware and build. A major aspect of our build is a board with IPMI support so that we can remotely manage and boot (even from an off state!) the server, useful for business environments. You could also apply these basic steps to home theater and HTPC builds, where a home media server might be the end goal. For us, a small business file storage server was our goal, and so we called in help from Wendell at L1T. The build also uses an older NetApp Disk Shelf to give us expansion possibilities up to 32 drives, + additional SSDs. One of our other benefits is easy addition of Steam Cache to accelerate game downloads after the first download of a game.

Unraid + ZFS DIY guide: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/zfs-o...

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Host: Steve Burke
Guest: Wendell from Level1Techs
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