This is the first part of a few posts on my experience on building a home NAS. This has been on my mind for a while but it should be noted that I am planning to run slightly more things with this than just your typical NAS, hence why I am not going for an ATOM. I will most likely be running logstash along with observium and other web related things onto it. I am dying to put that to use.

Now onto the hardware:

• Intel Core i5-3450S 2.80GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (65W)
• Lian Li PC-Q25B Mini-ITX Cube – Black
• Asus P8H77-I Intel H77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MiniITX Motherboard
• Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
• Noctua NH-L12 CPU Cooler
• Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
• Nexus NX-5000 R3 530W Real Silent 80+

Now dying to get the hardware. First stop will be to install FreeBSD with ZFS, then I will be comparing this with CentOS 6 and ZFS. Have a few spare drives and one SSD, that should get me going for a while 🙂