NAS recommendations?

IS7Doji · 25 Dec 2010 at 20:56

Was looking at :
Synology Disk Station DS410
With 4 x 2TB HDD costing about £601~

Gonna be using it to:
-back up all data on home network
-store all home movies, music etc to stream to ps3's including hd content
-websites for testing

Gonna be using RAID 10, just wondering if this is more than adacute or should I get DS211+ and split then up and x goes on one and y another. Since I'm looking at the 600~ mark could I get anything better other than a pc the only drawbacks for me is it isn't hot swappable and no usb3.0 but that's just minor.

Anyone got any input?

deuse · 25 Dec 2010 at 21:19

If your going to spend that kind of money then build something like this and save a few £100

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17974923&postcount=21

Phal · 26 Dec 2010 at 10:30

Yeah NAS boxes definitely seem expensive when you compare them to a small PC you can build :/

ringo747 · 26 Dec 2010 at 18:15

I've just recently got a DS211 and it's a great piece of kit. Very easy to get setup and running. I didn't want a noisy PC sitting around 24/7. A Synology NAS seems to have everything I need, with very low power consumption and spin down disks. The UI is very good and all the packages provide an excellent feature set. I could justify the extra for a 211+ as there isn't really any useful differences for me.

m4rkw7 · 26 Dec 2010 at 23:48

Have you considered building a low-powered machine and running FreeNAS?

IS7Doji · 27 Dec 2010 at 11:07

aye i looked at both options and kind of come to the same price with 8tb of storage(4backup) and a random drive for an os

Liked the look of the chenbro case tho, stil pondering other which to get/build only thing that puts me of a small pc is the fact i got to set it all up which isnt long =p but im lazy

Skidilliplop · 27 Dec 2010 at 20:52

IS7Doji said:
aye i looked at both options and kind of come to the same price with 8tb of storage(4backup) and a random drive for an os

Liked the look of the chenbro case tho, stil pondering other which to get/build only thing that puts me of a small pc is the fact i got to set it all up which isnt long =p but im lazy

FreeNAS takes significantly less time to set up than windows so it's a lot less effort than building your own PC. Which I'm sure you've done and takes next to no time at all