NAS

tsinc80697 · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:39

Wasn't sure which part of the forum this should go under, Hard Drives or networking, bit of both really! So just move it if im in the wrong one

Anyways!
i was looking at getting NAS for a house next year, bunch of students, but the most storage ive seen is 2 IDE drives, which is less than what id like to have.
I was thinking about SATA > firewire converters and just putting a few hard drives into a case along with a PSU, but theese converters cant handle many drives, so i would need multiple firewire inputs, unless there is a way of linking them together ?
Does anyone know of any company's or people that make NAS boxes which can hold 4+ HDD which run firewire or USB2 ( or both) as im struggling to think of anygood ideas for networked storage without spending money on something like a server,

Thanks

Oddball · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:41

1x Cheap PC (with fairly large case)
4x SATA PCI Cards
10x 300GB Seagate HDD's

Easy

tsinc80697 · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:43

but that requires a majority of the components for a PC, which i didnt want to start doing :*(
just wanted something simple without the hassle of basically getting another PC and sticking PCI cards into it.

is it possible to do it the way i mentioned or is it completely silly ?

otherwise i might just have to bodge it together and see how it goes, home-made NAS

Burbleflop · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:44

Have a look at the Buffalo Terrastations, they hold upto 4 discs. The normal ones take IDE discs, the Pro take SATA discs.

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tsinc80697 · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:46

whoops, sorry, never saw that

kippermitten · 26 Apr 2006 at 22:53

You have to either spend cashola on a bigger disk based NAS or use an old PC, run linux on it and mount how ever many drives you can fit into the chassis!