SFF Nas Device

Bry · 13 Jan 2009 at 15:30

It is still being built im afraid

payment has been taken so hoping very soon now.
Cost me £360 with vat, shipping and the upgrade to 2gb ram

Eddietop · 13 Jan 2009 at 15:34

£360 for the box fully built and just needing disks and an OS is very good tbh. I was looking at getting an mini itx NAS case before for £150, and that was without cpu,memory,mobo and it was only 4 bays

Bry · 13 Jan 2009 at 15:37

Yes im quite happy with the price, more or less the same as the Qnap TS-409 but, you are getting a mcuh better spec and extra hdd slot so

The only bad thing is the build time, but its also nice as you know it hasn't been sat on a shelf for god knows how long and it is tested before it is shipped

Bry · 13 Jan 2009 at 17:08

Popular demand over the Christmas period has resulted in the following unforseen delay to your order.

We aim to ship your order on or before wk ending Friday 23rd January.

oh well

Eddietop · 13 Jan 2009 at 17:13

Bit of a wait

, think ill place my order tonight so at least i'm in the queue.

Bry · 25 Jan 2009 at 13:16

Just to let you know, I have now recieved my server from Tranquil and have been playing around with it over the weekend.
I have posted a mini review here http://www.parityservices.co.uk/tranquil/barebones2-review.html

Please go easy on my review skills, as i know they are not very good.

In short it is small, fairly quiet, easy to setup and use and when compared to products like the Qnap 409 the performance and options are far superior.

Phunky Phish · 25 Jan 2009 at 21:27

I got a IB-NAS4220
Upload circa 15mb/sec
Download circa 8mb/sec

My speeds doubled when I installed RAID onto the PC!
Anyway, very happy with it for network storage dead easy and just works! Cheap to

Ouch, £390 plus the server software AND hard drives?

Eddietop · 26 Jan 2009 at 09:22

Thanks for doing that review Bry. Looks like your very happy with your purchase then.

I ordered mine last week from Tranquil, they have taken the payment so hopefully it will ship this week sometime, cant wait for it now

Bry · 26 Jan 2009 at 15:18

Yea I do like it a lot. Just make sure if you are installing whs you have a usb keyboard/mouise and something which to boot the device and install it from

Rob456 · 11 Feb 2009 at 19:46

Interesting thread. I was just looking for the same type of thing... low power system, with RAID1, NAS box with the ability of installing a Windows Server or Home Server OS. I only need a couple disks, but not sure if going the Shuttle route is an expensive route to take.