Data backup, streaming and torrents - NAS

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I currently have a USB2 External hard drive which I use just for backup of data and recovery points from Symantec BESR 2010 running on my main Win 7 (soon to be 8.1) desktop.

I also currently stream movies from the desktop to TVs around the house and download torrents using uTorrent.

My USB2 drive is getting full so I am looking at options.

One problem I had the other day was the main PC got corrupted so I did a bare metal restore from the USB drive however this took over 2hours and suspect that was down to the speed of USB2.

The other problem, well you may say its not a problem, is for streaming my computer is on all the time, same for torrents.

So my thoughts are on a NAS box that has gigabite NIC, Raid 1 pref but not essential, ability to stream via DNLA and download torrents (I once had a NAS box that was supposed to be able to do torrent but was painfully slow downloading them) something that's as fast as my uTorrent client.

Synology comes to mind but should I also be looking at alternatives and if so which ones.

Storage space I will need is about 3tb
 
HP ProLiant with FreeNAS?

My setup:

sabnzbd+, torrent, storage etc. on FreeNAS. I have it set up with 4 1.5TB drives which gives me a total of 3.8TB and allows 1 disk failure. This is backed up nightly to an external 4TB Seagate and also to CrashPlan (FreeNAS supports CrashPlan which is awesome). I get full speed downloads and can copy files to the NAS at 90MB/s+ which is basically full speed on gigabit.

Raspberry Pi connected to TV and ethernet which streams perfectly from the NAS and can be controlled using my standard TV remote.

FreeNAS on the ProLiant does do DLNA quite nicely apparently, but I like my Pi setup as the DLNA on my TV is awful and the Pi can be controlled with my TV remote anyway.
 
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Craig321 said:
HP ProLiant with FreeNAS?

My setup:

sabnzbd+, torrent, storage etc. on FreeNAS. I have it set up with 4 1.5TB drives which gives me a total of 3.8TB and allows 1 disk failure. This is backed up nightly to an external 4TB Seagate and also to CrashPlan (FreeNAS supports CrashPlan which is awesome). I get full speed downloads and can copy files to the NAS at 90MB/s+ which is basically full speed on gigabit.

Raspberry Pi connected to TV and ethernet which streams perfectly from the NAS and can be controlled using my standard TV remote.

FreeNAS on the ProLiant does do DLNA quite nicely apparently, but I like my Pi setup as the DLNA on my TV is awful and the Pi can be controlled with my TV remote anyway.
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Interesting but thats not the route I want to take thanks
 
Either Synology or Qnap will do what you want. Most of them have demo OS's you can try out on there sites to see if you like the operating system. both will do torrent downloads. There is a lot of third party apps for both of them you can download and install which will do just about everything you want.
 
just sent back a synology ds215j as it isn't powerful enough to run plex, not sure i needed the trans-coding element just needed the streaming part £145 was a lot of money for a glorified nas box , now looking at building a self build freenas
 
There's no need to run Plex if you encode your files in an appropriate format. The Synologys own DLNA streaming software does a good enough job on its own. Plex is nice and has some good features, but it will struggle if needed to use it's built in transcoding capability without any HW support.
 
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