Thread: Nas

4TB NAS $499.

Dunno much about it, but seems a decent price.

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Solved my problem.
Scored an old server.
dual 1.6mhz dual core processors, 1 gig ecc ram. dual sata raid controlers and 2 2TB drives in the hot swap bays so far. Now to set it up!

Thought I'd add to this thread. Got a new NAS this week to replace a few other drives and my old Buffalo Terrastation.

The unit is a Drobo FS (clicky) and it is brilliant, dead simple to use and configure and basically self managing. I've put five 2TB SATAII 7200rpm, 64MB cache WD drives in it. With two disk redundancy this gives me 7.22TB of space.

The only downside at present is I've just spent 28 hours copying the 667GB off my old Terrastation to the new NAS and it's only 60% completed. Not the Drobo's fault but the slowness of the old Terrastation

I seriously looked at the 4 and 6 bay ReadyNAS as a friend has one and it is excellent, but I couldn't get one without buying it with smaller drivers than I wanted and stock was very limited from all suppliers. Also the ReadyNAS is very particular about which drives it uses.

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

I'm using an Intel SS4200e
Intel SS4200-E: PC-Based NAS Evaluated : Intel And EMC Tackle NAS

Can't recall if it does unsupervised torrents, or media streaming, but does mirrored backup, which is what I bought it for.

Bays for four HDDs, blah, blah, blah.

I bought it and two 1TB drives for about $550.

And we've got a problem.

I received a not so cheery email telling me that one of the drives might be dead.

Which is all good, no data lost, I think it's still under warranty, and that's why I set it up as raid1.

But it turns out that the machine, which is pretty bare to start with, is even less forthcoming when things go wrong. The upside is it takes me back to playing duke nukem, through the secret door, type in the hidden password, download the double-encrypted file, and then work out which drive is toasted.

And the Intel help forums give helpful advice such as, 'have you plugged the drive into another computer?' Which is the logical next step, but reaching this point I've suddenly started to want the machine to do a little of the heavy lifting itself.

No complaints here, but rather thinking I should have thought about how the equipment handles catastrophic failure, it's now worrying me just a little that I didn't look earlier, and that the manual doesn't actually include a section on how to deal with drive failure, replacement, etc. And just think, you can download the manuals from the internet, so I've really got no excuse.

Worthwhile considering before the next purchase.