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DAS VS NAS?

Robert

Robert

Robert

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I was considering getting a Synology DS1010 which would more than cater for my storage needs and obviously give me centralised storage instead of being reliant on my main PC being switched on.

The main issue with this is that it's expensive. If I purchased a 5 bay DAS box and connected that to my Boxee Box (or whatever device I use) I'm presuming it would work OK?
 
£600? And it doesn't even come with any HDDs according to the description?

For that price I'd just make my own Atom-based file server.
 
The other thing is - the Synology will consume far less power and it's fairly small.

What case would be relatively small yet allow me to hold 5 drives? I'm aware that I could build one for less but still.
 
DragonQ said:
£600? And it doesn't even come with any HDDs according to the description?

For that price I'd just make my own Atom-based file server.
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This is what I did - built my own around a Inwin BP655 case and an Atom mini ITX board cost about half that (won't get 5 HDDs in that case - I have 2 in it and external USB2 discs connected for the rest of the storage).
 
For me an Atom board with 6 SATA ports would be perfect but I'd want it to be fanless and I dunno if that's possible with a big case for that many HDDs. I won't be building a file server for a few years yet though.
 
As far as I can tell the DS1010+ (didn't spot one without the +) is a NAS not a DAS unit.

I doubt it would save you much power - the product info says "Power-saving with only 68W in Operation", which is about what my AM2-based WHS server with 8 disks draws. If it used 20W less than an equivalent pc, that's only about £20 per year so it would probably not recover the higher purchase cost.

Do you really need 5 disks, BTW? Personally I'd forget RAID and spend some of the money on backup storage (RAID on it's own is no use when you accidentally delete a file and discover it's missing the week after...).

No idea about the Boxee box thing. If it needs software to run on the server to access media then you may be better off with a standard pc for compatability... Then again, you could use the server as a HTPC as well and avoid buying a Boxee thing.

Hope this helps and provides a bit of food for thought :)
 
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