The 4 port NIC may not work the way you want it to for writes to the NAS. Buy your 4port NIC off ebay, 4 port intels go for $50-$100. How to lower cost - that 6600k is hugely overkill if you're just running a NAS/firewall. I'm not crazy about those SSDs but they'll get the job done. I am currently desperate for answers so can someone please help.Ĭan never have to much ram, and price per gb on the disks looks good especially for those drives. Is the CPU and amount of ram a good decision. The price is high however there is convenience in the fact that it is an all in one solution. In the end, the rig should look something like this: A contender for the USB card is currently this:Īlso, the on board graphics will be given to unRaid so I am including a cheap video card as the video device for pfSense which i will also have to assign to the VM. I know that I will have to assign that nic and a USB card to the pfSense VM. On the pfSense side of things, I will use the Intel I340-T4 or the StarTech ST1000SPEX42. I know that the onboard NIC on my motherboard will be used for unRaid, I will also add the Supermicro AOC-SGP-I4 for unRaid do use for link aggregation for faster write speeds. Since I am limited on space I wanted to know if I can run a NAS, firewall and router in one ATX chasis (the NZXT Source 210 Elite).