Afternoon all,
Finally decided i needed to take the plunge and sort out a home server/NAS box rather than chopping and changing between the 5 external hard drives that are cluttering my room at the moment.
Looking for some advice about the basics and what would be the best solution for my needs.
Basically:
Need a decent amount of storage, Got all my blurays backed up on externals at the moment along with music and also the extended families treasured home videos and photos!
Would like to set up a home server so it's accessible remotely so that parents and brother can get at the family stuff from their own computers.
Think those are pretty much the only essential requirements but would be nice to be able to stream media to different parts of the house as well so that girlfriend can watch her terrible rom coms without subjecting me to them as well.
Budget is not an issue really, would rather get something quality set up that will last me and i can upgrade in the future. Been looking at hard drives and i gather that the Western Digital "Reds" are the weapon of choice in terms of server drives? Is this correct? If so then i'd be looking at 4 x 4TB ones of those to cover the storage side of things. Apart from that i'm after some advice as to what i should use to hook all that together and provide the remote access capabilities and streaming.
Any ideas folks?
Finally decided i needed to take the plunge and sort out a home server/NAS box rather than chopping and changing between the 5 external hard drives that are cluttering my room at the moment.
Looking for some advice about the basics and what would be the best solution for my needs.
Basically:
Need a decent amount of storage, Got all my blurays backed up on externals at the moment along with music and also the extended families treasured home videos and photos!
Would like to set up a home server so it's accessible remotely so that parents and brother can get at the family stuff from their own computers.
Think those are pretty much the only essential requirements but would be nice to be able to stream media to different parts of the house as well so that girlfriend can watch her terrible rom coms without subjecting me to them as well.
Budget is not an issue really, would rather get something quality set up that will last me and i can upgrade in the future. Been looking at hard drives and i gather that the Western Digital "Reds" are the weapon of choice in terms of server drives? Is this correct? If so then i'd be looking at 4 x 4TB ones of those to cover the storage side of things. Apart from that i'm after some advice as to what i should use to hook all that together and provide the remote access capabilities and streaming.
Any ideas folks?
