Would like a Home NAS System spec'd

Flussig

Flussig

Flussig

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Hi guys

Would like some specs put forward for a home NAS system.
Only needing the box as i have spare port on the KVM
A few things that i think i need (but maybe not!)

case with the ability to add fans to blow cold air over the drives (this is very important)
loads of bays for hard drives
raid 5
gigabit connections
blu ray burner
no real vga power needed

with regards to the OS i'm pretty much a XP person so have no experience of other solutions, however with this project i understand that to get the best out of the box i will need to expand my horizons so would be looking for some suggestions on the best way forward

Thanks
 
Blu-Ray burner on a NAS box :confused:

openfiler is the best (free) NAS environment I've used, but it would render your Blu-Ray burner utterly useless.
 
My solution is probably a bit low-end for what you're looking for but I have an old shuttle (easily available on ebay) with a SATA controller and 2TB. It's just an old 2.8 celeron but for what I use it for it does everything I need.

Something like that you could fairly easily put a Blu-ray burner in and gigabit ethernet if it didnt already have it.

I use ubuntu desktop edition (server lacks a GUI) and find it runs everything a lot smoother on low-end hardware. I run ftp, smb, torrents and various other services off the box and have not ever had any problems with it.

The only problem with that is that with a shuttle case you don't get any room for extra fans etc, why are these so important to your build?
 
paradigm said:
Blu-Ray burner on a NAS box :confused:

openfiler is the best (free) NAS environment I've used, but it would render your Blu-Ray burner utterly useless.
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Would like the ability to back up and store off site and i figured that blu ray would make that the easiest with the amount of data a disk can hold.
 
Flussig said:
Would like the ability to back up and store off site and i figured that blu ray would make that the easiest with the amount of data a disk can hold.
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For that I would have thought esata would have been a better choice for quick, offsite backup. E-sata caddy's are pretty cheap these days and you would probably cover the cost after a few backups not using discs (depending on how much data you're going for)
 
SirConfused said:
My solution is probably a bit low-end for what you're looking for but I have an old shuttle (easily available on ebay) with a SATA controller and 2TB. It's just an old 2.8 celeron but for what I use it for it does everything I need.

Something like that you could fairly easily put a Blu-ray burner in and gigabit ethernet if it didnt already have it.

I use ubuntu desktop edition (server lacks a GUI) and find it runs everything a lot smoother on low-end hardware. I run ftp, smb, torrents and various other services off the box and have not ever had any problems with it.

The only problem with that is that with a shuttle case you don't get any room for extra fans etc, why are these so important to your build?
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Seems like a good setup but from past experience with hard drive failures it is very important to have a cold air flow going over them to prolong life. I have had 2 drives fail on me in my life which i believe was to overheating in a small case. Since then i have always made the point of having cases with fans blowing air over the drives and never had a failure since.
 
SirConfused said:
For that I would have thought esata would have been a better choice for quick, offsite backup. E-sata caddy's are pretty cheap these days and you would probably cover the cost after a few backups not using discs (depending on how much data you're going for)
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I like this idea...thanks!
 
External hdd's are more expensive, harder to cool, slower to access and harder to set up with whatever network storage method you're using.

I have had about 15-20 HDD's over the last 8 years or so and though I have retired a few because they were 3+ years old I have never had one die on me to the point where I have lost data. I would personally just go with a brand of drive I trust. Never had a problem with Seagate, WD or Maxtor myself.
 
SirConfused said:
External hdd's are more expensive, harder to cool, slower to access and harder to set up with whatever network storage method you're using.

I have had about 15-20 HDD's over the last 8 years or so and though I have retired a few because they were 3+ years old I have never had one die on me to the point where I have lost data. I would personally just go with a brand of drive I trust. Never had a problem with Seagate, WD or Maxtor myself.
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How much data are you going to be backing up?
 
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