Western Digital 4TB NAS
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That definitely improves it, but brings the total cost to £500 without any drives.
I do like the fact that you can mix and match the drives though.
Interesting, I might have a closer look at it in the new year.
I do like the fact that you can mix and match the drives though.
Interesting, I might have a closer look at it in the new year.
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I use the AC Ryan Play-on HD for media streaming as ant has said. great wee machine. the cover thing could be built into the firmware upgrades at a future date. Down to £119 and plays everything i have thrown at it.
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Thinking of buying one of these
Scan.co.uk: WDA4NC40000E - 4Tb Western Digital WDA4NC40000 ShareSpace Network Storage
Anyone had any experience with it??
It will be used for storage and streaming of DVD ISO's, MP3 collection, photos etc
I will also transfer my I-Tunes library to it, and possibly set my Macbook to backup to this disk using Time Machine (will this work?)
Cheers
Scan.co.uk: WDA4NC40000E - 4Tb Western Digital WDA4NC40000 ShareSpace Network Storage
Anyone had any experience with it??
It will be used for storage and streaming of DVD ISO's, MP3 collection, photos etc
I will also transfer my I-Tunes library to it, and possibly set my Macbook to backup to this disk using Time Machine (will this work?)
Cheers
Thing with all these NAS enclosures is they tend to be based on BSD or some other linux distribution. Why not save yourselves lots of pounds and build your own NAS on an old PC? This offers the option of using which ever disks you like, use of hardware raid, software raid is also an option, and installation of gigabyte speeds over copper or fibre if you wish.
I have been running one of these for 4 years, which boots and runs from a 1Gb USB stick.
My configuration is 4 x 2Tb Sata disks in a hardware raid 5 configuration. This offers me about 6Tb of usable storage.
Total cost to build and set up -
P4 1.8GHz PC with 1Gb Ram - Free as I already had this spare
Raid controller card (Optional) - £100
4 x 2Tb 7200 SATA Drives - £600
Gigabit ethernet card (Optional) - £30
Supports SMB, TFTP, FTP, NFS, SSH, rsync, AFP, UPnP, BitTorrent protocols and iTunes.
Unison support, iSCSI targets to create virtual disks & iSCSI initiator.
All of which can be administered from a secure web interface with the ability to encrypt its contents.
I have been running one of these for 4 years, which boots and runs from a 1Gb USB stick.
My configuration is 4 x 2Tb Sata disks in a hardware raid 5 configuration. This offers me about 6Tb of usable storage.
Total cost to build and set up -
P4 1.8GHz PC with 1Gb Ram - Free as I already had this spare
Raid controller card (Optional) - £100
4 x 2Tb 7200 SATA Drives - £600
Gigabit ethernet card (Optional) - £30
Supports SMB, TFTP, FTP, NFS, SSH, rsync, AFP, UPnP, BitTorrent protocols and iTunes.
Unison support, iSCSI targets to create virtual disks & iSCSI initiator.
All of which can be administered from a secure web interface with the ability to encrypt its contents.
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What OS are you running on that box? What is providing AFP (netatalk 2.0.3?) and iTunes Server support (one assumes the iTunes support is it running as an iTunes server).
Just curious as perhaps this kind of setup could work out cheaper than a NAS.
How quiet is it? One of the things I'd want is a pretty silent system as the device would probably be on 24/7.
Just curious as perhaps this kind of setup could work out cheaper than a NAS.
How quiet is it? One of the things I'd want is a pretty silent system as the device would probably be on 24/7.
Take a look at FreeNAS [FreeNAS]
The system is based on a BSD distribution - It is well documented, and easy to work with.
The box will be as quiet as the quietest PC you own, buy or build.
Download the LiveCD, boot from that, put an empty USB stick in your machine and select option 9 then option 1. Reboot the machine from USB and away you go. From the menu set the IP address, DHCP options and then all config options will be available from a web interface.
Mine runs on a dell optiplex GX270 P4 2.6Ghz with 2Gb RAM - it will run on much lower spec equipment than this. The fans are fairly unobrtusive, but saying that the box is tucked away in my office under a desk.
The system is based on a BSD distribution - It is well documented, and easy to work with.
The box will be as quiet as the quietest PC you own, buy or build.
Download the LiveCD, boot from that, put an empty USB stick in your machine and select option 9 then option 1. Reboot the machine from USB and away you go. From the menu set the IP address, DHCP options and then all config options will be available from a web interface.
Mine runs on a dell optiplex GX270 P4 2.6Ghz with 2Gb RAM - it will run on much lower spec equipment than this. The fans are fairly unobrtusive, but saying that the box is tucked away in my office under a desk.
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