I'm looking for a NAS, spec me please

ChrisD.

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ChrisD.

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As per the title, its purpose would be to backup my OS drive and documents, plus serving as a media streaming device to my network.

My backup space is around 300GB and I have around 1TB of media which rises most days.

I would imagine a 2 bay would be enough, for 2x2TB drives in RAID 1? Would spending extra on a 4 bay be worth it? I don't mind saving up a bit longer.
 
I'm looking at something similar

Personally I've decided to save up and get the 4 bay qnap on here. Not cheap by any means but it will last me a good while.

WD do some good ones though
 
My advice is just build a cheap file server instead, far more functional and you'll get proper gigabit speeds.
 
You could get a hp microserver, they are selling for £140 after a rebate and can hold 5 hard drives if you use a bay converter. All thats left then is to install freenas, microsoft home server, or unraid.
 
the 210 is a good allrounder the 211J synology is a good shout in that area too

the TS210 has all the features that the high end qnaps have just without the high performance cpu and ram etc
 
Would it be fine to stream 1080p, work as an iTunes server and give good speed for data backups?

Sorry if it's a stupid question, but how important is the CPU and RAM on a NAS?
 
The new N40L HP Microserver looks good and you can get £100 cash back making it £150.

Good spec as well: Turion II 1.5GHz, 2GB DDR3 RAM, 250GB HDD, 150w PSU and space for more hard drives :D
 
As above, I don't want another PC/server in my flat, I want a NAS.

I don't want to have to faf about with keyboard, mouse and monitor to set it all up, I just want a nice box in the corner I can throw some disks in and forget about.
 
MilanoChris said:
As above, I don't want another PC/server in my flat, I want a NAS.

I don't want to have to faf about with keyboard, mouse and monitor to set it all up, I just want a nice box in the corner I can throw some disks in and forget about.
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That pretty much sums up the microserver tbh, it takes like an hour to set up and then after that you can use it with out a monitor and through your web browser. Its also quiet and far more versatile than a NAS. You will also have faster transfer speeds over ethernet as it has a much better processor than a Nas. If you can not spare an hour of your time to set it up then fair enough, get a NAS.
 
Just set-up my Synology DS211J last weekend (didn't know there was a new model coming out - d'oh!). Fitted with 2 x 3TB Hitachi 7200 rpm drives in RAID 1. Run it with iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet with 9K MTU for my Windows 7 rig and with 100Mbps for my Linux netbook.

Just copied my Rise of Flight game folder from my Win 7 PC to the NAS. Transferred 5.02GB in 50 seconds. Copy back to PC 55 seconds.

DLNA, iTunes server and Torrent downloaders working OK.

NAS management interface really nice.

NAS is fairly quiet - would be much quieter with more sensible drives. Fan noise not a problem. Drives running at 41 degrees C. Again, more sensible drives would run cooler I'm sure.

NAS was £145 plus £105 each for the drives.
 
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