davidhayes
New Around Here
Hi,
It's time to replace my ageing WHS box with something a littlemore reliable and performant.
Requirements (in no real order)
1. Run Squeeze Center
2. At least 4 drives, probably RAID 1 ideally I'd like the possibility to expand to 8 but I'm flexible here
3. Able to backup to an external USB drive
4. Fast read/write speeds 80mb/s + would be great
5. Reasonably easy to look after, I work in IT and I'm happy in *nux/Windows etc and happy to build a machine but I don't want to spend my life tweaking this box
6. Gigabit Ethernet (obviously?)
7. Low power consumption (compared to running a full power PC)
8. Quiet as possible
9. Torrent Client
I'm looking at the Synology DS411+ http://www.synology.com/us/products/DS411+/index.php but at ~$700+tax (CAD) I figure I should be able to build something better maybe using FreeNAS
Does anybody have any experience building a NAS rather thany buying one?
Thanks in advance for your advice
Dave
It's time to replace my ageing WHS box with something a littlemore reliable and performant.
Requirements (in no real order)
1. Run Squeeze Center
2. At least 4 drives, probably RAID 1 ideally I'd like the possibility to expand to 8 but I'm flexible here
3. Able to backup to an external USB drive
4. Fast read/write speeds 80mb/s + would be great
5. Reasonably easy to look after, I work in IT and I'm happy in *nux/Windows etc and happy to build a machine but I don't want to spend my life tweaking this box
6. Gigabit Ethernet (obviously?)
7. Low power consumption (compared to running a full power PC)
8. Quiet as possible
9. Torrent Client
I'm looking at the Synology DS411+ http://www.synology.com/us/products/DS411+/index.php but at ~$700+tax (CAD) I figure I should be able to build something better maybe using FreeNAS
Does anybody have any experience building a NAS rather thany buying one?
Thanks in advance for your advice
Dave