Project BYON (Build Your Own NAS)

[Tears4Fears]

Build Your Own NAS (BYON)

Hello everyone!

I am from Singapore and I am sharing my personal project, Build Your Own NAS (BYON) here.

Follow me on my BYON project that details discussions on customizing and building your own NAS from scratch.

From deciding to buy or build a NAS, I go through the selection of every hardware components, Operating Systems, RAID and more.

I plan, source, buy, build, test, benchmark, review and share my knowledge and findings with everyone.

In project BYON, I've got three different OS setups: FreeNAS, Synology DSM and U-NAS. Synology DSM tests results has just been published hours ago and I am completing this entire project in the next couple of days. I welcome any suggestions or discussions related to NAS here.

 

[stevech]

your site seems to dive in by doing (video) transcoding on the NAS.
That makes no sense.

 

[Tears4Fears]

your site seems to dive in by doing (video) transcoding on the NAS.
That makes no sense.

Hi Steve

Are you viewing my site from a mobile device?

At present, I have a total of 24 posts, starting from Intro to implementation and benchmarks. Plex transcoding (video) test is just 1 outta the 24 posts.

If you have the time, do read though the rest of my posts.

I am confident of the quality of my posts and the information that I'm sharing.

 

[Tears4Fears]

3rd setup - U-NAS testing results are out!

3.4.1 U-NAS Performance Test
3.4.2 U-NAS Functionality Test

I will post Benchmark Charts soon.

 

[stevech]

Speed is important. But for many users, ease of admin and feature set is equally or more important, given speed is reasonable.

 

[Tears4Fears]

I've finally completed BYON including the documentations.

Here are the final 3 posts.

3.5.1 CIFS Benchmarks
3.5.2 iSCSI Benchmarks
3.6 Summary

Last but not least, please participate in this poll for two short questions related to BYON.

3.7 BYON Poll