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squiffy · 9 Nov 2006 at 12:30

I would be interested in a NAS too, but SATA x 2.

smids · 9 Nov 2006 at 13:14

Honestly - build your own. Should be only about £60 with something like a P3 or Socket A Athlon/Duron. P3's run a fair bit cooler and very low power so that might be worth a look. It's what I did... (Mine cost about £40, then I upgraded it a bit - SDRAM pretty expensive @ ~£10 for 256MB).

Using a linux distro of some kind e.g. FreeNAS, Openfiler etc, and the O/S is free and highly configurable. Much better than some of the expensive solutions out in the market at the moment, and most are exactly as above in a nice packaging.

Methanoid · 21 Nov 2006 at 13:14

smids said:
Honestly - build your own. Should be only about £60 with something like a P3 or Socket A Athlon/Duron. P3's run a fair bit cooler and very low power so that might be worth a look. It's what I did... (Mine cost about £40, then I upgraded it a bit - SDRAM pretty expensive @ ~£10 for 256MB).
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A dedicated PC will chew power all day and night if on 24/7. A NAS box like mine uses about 10W ie what your TV uses on standby! Also runs an FTP server for the net if needed.

Oh and mine is PATA. Same as the ones sold by OCUK (Icybox NAS)

smids · 21 Nov 2006 at 17:28

Methanoid said:
smids said:

Honestly - build your own. Should be only about £60 with something like a P3 or Socket A Athlon/Duron. P3's run a fair bit cooler and very low power so that might be worth a look. It's what I did... (Mine cost about £40, then I upgraded it a bit - SDRAM pretty expensive @ ~£10 for 256MB).
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A dedicated PC will chew power all day and night if on 24/7. A NAS box like mine uses about 10W ie what your TV uses on standby! Also runs an FTP server for the net if needed.

Oh and mine is PATA. Same as the ones sold by OCUK (Icybox NAS)

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Ensure you are using an active PSU - that is what I have and it is about 96% efficient. The whole box for me runs about 100W. Yes, it's more than a NAS box on its own, but not that much, plus I can have it wake on LAN and standby when not in use.

Methanoid · 21 Nov 2006 at 20:12

15W in active use and 6W in standby... thats a difference in my book... I'm getting stingy with power usage and with noise these days. Hence the love of NAS drives!