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If you have a decent pc that has a powerful enough processor and a good enough motherboard. Then why do you need a NAS really? my pc has an i5 4690 processor with a decent benchmark and my motherboard can do raid. So buying a NAS would be a waste on what my pc can do and can transcode if needed. Just fill your pc up with decent drives on what you would spend on a NAS
 
Home made storage server using my old amd phenom II x4 955 undervolted & underclocked to save power. It has an LSI 8888elp raid controller and intel res2sv240 sas expander with 7 WD Se 2TB disks in raid 5 giving 12TB. I've got room in the case to add another five disks to give a maximum array size of 22TB.
 
nicknack35 said:
If you have a decent pc that has a powerful enough processor and a good enough motherboard. Then why do you need a NAS really? my pc has an i5 4690 processor with a decent benchmark and my motherboard can do raid. So buying a NAS would be a waste on what my pc can do and can transcode if needed. Just fill your pc up with decent drives on what you would spend on a NAS
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NAS serves as storage as well as utility, it can be powered on all the time and will use a lot less power than a reasonably powerful PC would, also it can be put somewhere out of the way.

I have a NAS and I don't regret getting it, my current one is my 2nd one. I get that it's more costly, but I'm happy with mine :)
 
HungryHippos said:
NAS serves as storage as well as utility, it can be powered on all the time and will use a lot less power than a reasonably powerful PC would, also it can be put somewhere out of the way.

I have a NAS and I don't regret getting it, my current one is my 2nd one. I get that it's more costly, but I'm happy with mine :)
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i Agree about the storage but my pc can have few drives and also can be raided. i don't need to transcode on my home network. But the option is there if i need to. If ever reason i would need to transcode then i would need to spend fair bit on a NAS. But then i think my PC would waste on its potential
 
I've got mine on a dedicated plex server (i5 4670k @ 4.2GHz, 16GB 2400Mhz, 250GB Evo 850 and 18TB of space). I prefer it this way as I can then consume the media in any way I like. I used to have Kodi before it and found that decent but multi user support was crap. Prior to this I would use a USB HDD connected to my PS3.
 
nicknack35 said:
i Agree about the storage but my pc can have few drives and also can be raided. i don't need to transcode on my home network. But the option is there if i need to. If ever reason i would need to transcode then i would need to spend fair bit on a NAS. But then i think my PC would waste on its potential
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Yes but when you get to needing 4+ drives, then having a NAS makes more sense than trying to pile more and more hard drives into a non-expandable array.

I think they have different requirements personally, for light usage a hard drive or two in your PC is fine, if you want more flexibility and out of the way storage, a NAS is better imo.
 
Well I've decided to buy a 6TB WD Red to use as my main media storage in my PC. Currently copying over all my files. I decided that for the time being 1 drive would be enough and would lessen the upfront cost.

Later down the line I still of course have the option of buying a NAS and another HDD. I just to keep on the lookout for a decent, possibly 2nd hand NAS or HTPC that will manage to host my Plex server without hiccups :)
 
I have a cheapo N54L, with 3x1TB disks and a 120GB SSD in the Esata.

I have the 3 HDDs in a Raid 5 storage pool inside of Server 2012. So i like to think i have a bit of redundancy, would like to get a 4th disk, or a set of larger ones as i only have ~1.8TB of actual storage. But im super lazy so that's not happening any time soon.
 
hp microserver

works out at about £110 after cashback and then populate it with drives.

mines got about 6tb of useable storage running WHS11 and plex server.

did consider wiping it all and putting xpenology (the synology software they use on their Nas's)
 
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