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1 Jan 2010, 17:12
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Thinking about buying a soon to store all of my audo/video-files, make backups, etc. I've heard it can also be used for webhosting or DNS purposes so that would be interesting aswell.
Would be nice to hear who here actually owns a NAS and:
- What brand and type?
- Uses?
- Which of the following RAID-modi would you use: JOBD / 0 / 1?
I think I'll go for the , all I need now are some decent hard drives (1 or 1.5 TB), do give me some suggestions please.
Would be nice to hear who here actually owns a NAS and:
- What brand and type?
- Uses?
- Which of the following RAID-modi would you use: JOBD / 0 / 1?
I think I'll go for the , all I need now are some decent hard drives (1 or 1.5 TB), do give me some suggestions please.
my disks are:
no raid, both volumes are formated as basic and mounted as volume1/2
I suppose you don't have them in RAID since disks should have the same capacity right? (your edit just made this question look kinda useless :D).
What features of Synology are you using btw and can you give me some quick pros and cons?
Pros:
it really is fast
its running on lnx which offers loads of options (svn etc)
im using the media server, the download station the web station, the backup station
synology might be a bit more expansive than others, but its worth the money...
cons:
not quite sure i found some yet, my nas is running really smooth since over a year
hes the king.
that is how i have set up my nas, with an atom dual core cpu, 2gb ram and 2,5tb disk space, running on ubuntu server 64bit.
only bad thing on that ps3 is, that it doens't support .mkv files to be played directly from the ps3, but with the dual core atom nas i can remux the movies into .m2ts files very quickly. ;-)
i like the setup here how it is and normally the nas isn't running 24/7, since i wake it up on lan when it is needed.
And Atom expensive? Not cheap, but certainly not that expensive.
High power consumption? How would you know if you don't even know what kind of atom or what other specs he has.
is silent and doesn't use a lot of power good for NAS.
That's what i would use.
And raid, certainly not 0. Unless you would also make backups from your NAS.
Atom machine isn't that bad. Even i3 is good, you can get it around 20~30 idle. Because i3 will perform the same task faster than an atom, so it will get faster to idle. Also something to think about.
My choice would be waiting for sandy bridge i3, buy h67 motherboard = win. But i am more demanding.
Price difference here between 1.5 and 2TB is like 10~15 euro's.
I mostly look at price per gb ratio, and with 2TB its better now atm.
Hmm I guess it is a bit more futureproof but the whole package is pretty expensive :p.
I think I'll rather go for a bit less storage, making everything a bit cheaper and assuring me that I won't have any problems with them since they are 100 % supported: the Samsung F2EG.