NAS/HTPC

[Kemik]

Hey,

I need an external solution (preferable redundant) to store my media. Are the barebones solutions suitable for this? Are there any that support RAID?

If not, I was thinking of buying a 500GB HDD for the storage and then another 1TB HDD. I'd then setup the OS of choice to make backups to the 1TB HDD.

Thanks guys

 

[cokecan]

most barebones systems should be great for a NAS/file server type role, probably a bit overkill in some cases lol

I've only ever really used Shuttle and mini-itx based systems before but now days they all tend to come with RAID, if not i guess you could buy a cheap PCI sata/RAID card depending on what kind of RAID array you want.

I'm doing a similar thing my self at the min, I've got a small mobo thats designed for embedded systems mainly but is half decent spec wise (pentium M 1.6, ddr mem etc) so fits the bill quite nicely for a file server. It's not got any onboard sata/RAID so I'm usin a cheap PCI RAID card. As I found out of another member of this forum, PCI should have plenty of bandwidth for RAID 1 which is what I'm gonna use so thats no problem. I'm usin 2 1tb drives to basically store all my media/photo's etc and to store the backups of all my other PC's (was thinking of getting my other PC's to do backup every couple of days or so)