Any cheap 19" rack mounted NAS enclosures?

Mike1983

Mike1983

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Hi

I'm in the market for a NAS enclosure for my home network. Now it's not going to be used for anything critical, just streaming bulk data, music, videos etc around the network.

The only criteria I have are as follows

1) 19" rack mountable
2) Gigabit rated - It will be connected to a Gigabit switch / network
3) Cheap
4) I'm new to home netwroks / NAS so if you feel theres any features I should consider then please advise.

The only ones I've seen so far are around the £400 upwards mark which is out of my price range.

If I can't find a cheap 19" unit then I can use a standard desktop type item but I'd prefer to rack mount it.

Thanks

Mike
 
You could always look at try making your own NAS. You wont get a small 1u or 2u NAS, but you can buy a 4u rackmount case and get a cheap atom board, a few HDDs and see if it works out within your budget.
 
I'm looking at doing this. I want to build a low power rack mount Nas to back up my drive pool on my server.

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Been looking at these cases here:

http://www.xcase.co.uk/rackmount-ca...ith-dual-5-25-for-3-5-5-25-or-2-5-drives.html

Not sure on the innards though...although I would whack 2 x 2TB WD reds in it.
 
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You're going to struggle to rack mount a server in a comms cabinet. It's almost a bit of a waste to build a NAS and then put two disks in it.

Just chuck a 4 or 5 bay unit in, you should have space to move the patch panel and switch up a bit.
 
Caged said:
You're going to struggle to rack mount a server in a comms cabinet. It's almost a bit of a waste to build a NAS and then put two disks in it.

Just chuck a 4 or 5 bay unit in, you should have space to move the patch panel and switch up a bit.
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The Nas will purely be used for Server Backup. The server has 12 TB in it and is located in an out building on the house site. I want to back up the Photos, Home videos data off the server to the house. So I don't need any more than 6TB in the Nas.

II would just get a cheap Nas box and add some drives but the study, where the comms cab is situated is running out of space hence why I wanted a rackmoutable solution. It will not being serving any files. Purley used for a backup share on the network
 
bremen1874 said:
You've already got something sitting on top of the cabinet. I'd just get a decent NAS and stick it on top as well (or stick a shelf up).
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That's the Wi-Fi Router that connects everything to the net!

Any recommendations? I have decided to sort my backup solution out properly since my WHS V 1 died.

The Nas will not be serving files just a location to back up the Drive pool of the server so I don't need loads of features.

My backup will consist of, since rebuilding the server last weekend with Server 2012 R2.

Home videos
Photos
Music

Backed up using Crashplan
Duplication within the pool using stablebit Drivepool and scanner

Then the shares backed up to a local 3TB external

And then these shares backed up off site to a NAS over in the house.

I'm thinking that a WD My cloud 3TB would suffice, and just stick it in the bottom of the cab....

Reviews seem good and it does offer good value for money

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7386/western-digital-launches-my-cloud-consumer-nas-platform

Ok there is no mirroring but I have a copy of the files on an external drive connected to the server too.
 
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To be honest if the my cloud does what you need it to then go for that. If you're already running a server then you've got more functionality than a NAS will give you.
 
Caged said:
To be honest if the my cloud does what you need it to then go for that. If you're already running a server then you've got more functionality than a NAS will give you.
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Thats what I was thinking....I just need to back up the drive pool off site via the network.

The files will just sit there on the Nas doing nowt :p

What is cool with the Cloud book after doing some more reading is that I can connect a USB drive to it either for added storage to the My cloud or export snapshots of the my cloud data folders to it in essence offering some level of redundancy too.

And its barely more expensive than an internal drive...
 
I'm assuming they've improved over their first terrible effort with the My Cloud then? I think the first release would only talk to the internet and everything had to be accessed via an app - does the new one just use SMB?
 
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I'm assuming they've improved over their first terrible effort with the My Cloud then? I think the first release would only talk to the internet and everything had to be accessed via an app - does the new one just use SMB?
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Are you referring to MY book live?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7386/western-digital-launches-my-cloud-consumer-nas-platform

"Today, Western Digital is announcing a very ambitious update to the My Book Live. At launch, the new My Cloud lineup will have only one member. This member, a network attached hard-disk, will come in 2, 3 and 4 TB capacities priced at $150, $180 and $250 respectively. However, under the same lineup, Western Digital also plans to bring out two and four-drive configurations to the market soon.

The My Cloud units sport a single Gigabit Ethernet connection and a dual-core processor (WD refused to disclose the identity, but it should become apparent when we receive units in hand). The units are backed by free iOS and Android apps (with direct upload from the mobile device to the NAS as the main feature) as well as well as the WD SmartWare Pro software for PC backups. Time Machine support is also available for Mac users. The units are also compatible with DLNA devices as a DMS (Digital Media Server)."
 
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