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Sam |
posted on 7th Jul 11 at 07:03 |
I've got a 500GB Buffalo LinkStation (you can get bigger sizes). | |
luciaadr |
posted on 7th Jul 11 at 05:50 |
quote: I'm just built one, good lord copying 4tb over 100mb ethernet takesa long time! Whittie, they are from here Crescent electronics and you get £100 cash back, so £120 for a server is pretty decent. Then put as many hard disks in as you like. Then add software of choice (from free - to £££) EDIT: Cant comment on reliability as its only been going a few days but the unRaid software looks pretty solid. Seem good for media becasue you only lose one hard disk to parity (restore) information and you can add drives easily. Heres quite a good build thread here [Edited on 07-07-2011 by luciaadr] | |
Matty SRi |
posted on 7th Jul 11 at 00:04 |
I dont understand how hard drives give up on people, ive had a 120gb exernal hard drive for 3 years and it still works fine. | |
bensterzback |
posted on 6th Jul 11 at 23:24 |
I built my self a nas, very simple runs off a usb pen and has 2 x 1tb and 4 x 500 gb hard drives. A friend of mine did all the setting up worked great untill i started messing with it few months ago now its sat under the table lol. | |
Whittie |
posted on 6th Jul 11 at 22:53 |
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QNAP-TS-410-Turbo-All-in-one-NAS-Server-iSCSI-/120726276624?pt=UK_Collectables_HardDriveEnclosures_RL&hash=item1c1bd8ca10 | |
Whittie |
posted on 6th Jul 11 at 22:50 |
Was looking at the Qnap stuff, pretty much top result in Google... | |
Dom |
posted on 6th Jul 11 at 22:28 |
I'm assuming by reliability you mean storage device rather than the data? As single disk storage isn't a realible solution for data, ideally you need to at least be mirroring the drive. But look at QNap and Synology, never had problems with them although neither are cheap. Could also go down the FreeNas/unRaid route using something like a HP Microserver, currently considering this as performance seems to be extremely impressive and it's reasonbly cheap for what you're getting. | |
Gary |
posted on 6th Jul 11 at 22:12 |
Network external hdd case, bin the cheap hdd, insert quality hdd. Job done. | |
Whittie |
posted on 6th Jul 11 at 21:56 |
Need something reliable; but obviously don't need to go overkill and just have SSD's, it's too expensive for the little storage you get. |