Replacing a QNAP TS-410; Hardware help

[jstad]

I am replacing my old QNAP TS-410 and would like to go with a DIY solution so that I am not stuck with another NAS with a slow outdated hardware.

Here is what I use my NAS for:

• Sickbeard
• CouchPotato
• NZBget
• Video Streaming to a handful Boxee and Roku set top boxes
• Coordinating files between computers (rsync)
• Music Audio Samples (thousands of samples for music production)

I am really trying to avoid overbuilding here. Currently I am running on all 4 bays with RAID5. However I would like this build to handle more than 4 drives so I can handle a drive failure a bit easier.

Questions after researching:

• Is an Atom processor going to be able to handle this sort of CPU load from Sickbeard, CP, and NZBget?
• Should I stick with RAID5 or should I migrate to some sort of RAIDZ configuration?
• I have two Core i5 processors sitting around unused. One of which is the i5-2400S, would this be ok for power consumption or is it overkill to the point you'd recommend buying something different?

 

[stevech]

Though to get all those features plus the NAS features of user accounts, access control, automated backups, Time backups, DLNA, FTP, etc., etc, in a DIY kit.

I couldn't tell you what software might have all these, and an easy/simple UI.

Atom: nah. E350 would be a good choice. But first, find the software bundle. I don't think you can; I tried.

 

[jstad]

I actually don't think I will have an issue losing most of those NAS features as I don't use many of them now with my QNAP.