In this age of online downloads, movies, music, etc. the hard disk space is never enough… at least that is the case with me.
I’ve got 4 200GB hard drives full of crap and I am not about to buy another one.
Who has a NAS server at home? Which one? I am thinking about buying one or building one from scratch.
The price for a barebone, raid-5 with 4 300-400GB hard drive is around $800-$1000 bucks… while price for 1 TB or 2 TB ready made systems is between $700-$1600, depending on where you shop.
When these things came out, the first one that I saw was from buffalo technologies, 1 TB for $1,000 but price for that has dropped two $600-$700… while their 2TB systems are twice that amount. Since, then many other players have emerged that put buffalo systems to shame.
Maybe, wait few more months and the price will come down further?
Why dont u buy bare bone & stick in HDD urself ? Now a days a 750GB SATA or EIDE is around $300 to $350, stick two of them & u will have 1.5 TB. The whole thing will cost u around $1000, since u still have extendable barebone for two more 750 GB ones ... or even 1 TB HDDs (will be out soon).
Well, that is an option. Are there any open source OS/web based management programs in particular to NAS similar to those that come with the readymade appliances?
With this one not only do you get RAID 5 (over 4 SATA drives) but also a couple of USB ports so you can actually add external drives. They are pretty reasonably priced (1 tb starts at around $750 or so. Very easy to implement and drives are easily replaceable via the front door. I actually bought an additional drive just to be on the safe side.
The infrant Technologies ReadyNAS NV looks nice as well, got better reviews than buffalos. I think waiting another 3-5 months should bring the prices down a bit on the 2 TB systems.
I am looking for something that plugs right into the LAN (preferably dual gNICs), has nice configuration interface (OS) and has support for active directory.
what do you guys actually put in these things? more than 1 terabyte? my drive has 40gb and of which it is showing 22 free!
Well, if you are not from/in IT then it does not make sense to have this thing.
The reason why I got this is central location of ALL data, such as:
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[li]Personal stuff[/ul][ol][LIST=1][/li][li]family pictures (and this can be huge in size)[/li][li]family movies (of people in the family)[/li][li]music collection[/li][li]home theater purposes (haven't tried it)[/li][li]personal / family documents[/ol][/LIST][ul][/li][li]Other / Business[ol][/li][li]Software[/li][li]Movies[/li][]Wide variety of other things :D[/ul][/ol]I've spent too much money on buying hard drives ( *got like 3 200 gb hard drives that are almost full, got 1 which died on me with the data).
