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Ok, so i have been looking around for ideas and deals on NAS’s and Media Servers for some time and I have a complaint! the ones that are out there either suck at RAID or Speed. So it looks like we are going to have to build one. I do mean we if you want to help. The idea is that you help me pick out the best, optimal hardware and stuff. I have some inspiration from Black Dwarf but lets be honest, the smaller it is the more money that will be spent. Honestly I dont care to have a small NAS. I am going to stick it in a room and forget it right? Anyway you can do more with bigger hardware in my opinion.
So lets look at some ideas and get this discussion moving. Price is a motivator for parts but performance is optimal. We want to stream HD movies if you catch the drift. It may also double serve as a file sharing server for the helpful and grateful hands of our community.
WD Green drives are NOT meant for RAID, just a warning. No low-power drives are. My NCSU boss learned that the hard way when their SAN kept dropping drives.
How much hard drive space are you wanting and how much are you willing to spend?
ok so I am thinking I want to start with 4 drives and raid 5. I dont really want to worry about hard drive crashes. I think i want PCIE – x8 or faster. The raid cards i have found are around 300 or so for 4x and 8x connectors for sata II drives.
It doesn’t matter to me if I do one controller with 8 or better connectors for hard drives or 2 cards with 4 hard drive connectors.
Its a business expense. Just planning and it will be bought soon after everything is planned. I am running out of space and need a good common place for backups and no worries.
I am thinking alot of space 6 terabytes or so.
what if i got something like this http://raleigh.craigslist.org/sys/1788085037.html
Those are loud, and by loud I mean put it in a closet, close the door, walk down the hall, and you can still hear it.
If it’s JUST for storage, you could get a regular ATX case that holds 8 HDs and get a mini-ITX Intel Atom/Nvidia ION motherboard similar to the one I put in my media center. Runs on almost no power and if you’re ok with buying a PCIe x8 SATA card then you can add as many HDs as you need. Give it 8GB ram and Windows 2008 and you’ll be off to the races.
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