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byAnonymous Coward writes:
Holy cow! $1,699 to $3,799" for "10TB or 12TB" of storage?
Case with 8 internal bays: $40
600 Watt Power supply: $35
MB with 8 SATA3 ports: $115
2.5gig dual core processor: $73
8 2TB drives: $800
1 Gig of RAM: $30
Total: $1093, for 16TB of storage. Yeah, yeah, you need one of them as a spare drive for redundancy, and you need an OS. You also need a few minutes to assemble and install. But for that price? Why pay twice as much? Hell yeah, roll my own, baby!
byJoe_Dragon ( 2206452 ) writes:
That PSU is to cheap at least get a $50+ one and don't just go for high watts.
get 2-4 GB ram mini should only be about $50-$60 for good 8 GB DDR 3 you want at least dual channel ram.
8 sata ports you may want to get a pci-e raid card / sata card. Maybe even SAS.
redundancy you may want raid 6 on a raid card and not on board fake raid and most south bridges only have 6 ports any ways.
Also some low end MB only have 10/100'.
bygman003 ( 1693318 ) writes:
That PSU is to cheap at least get a $50+ one and don't just go for high watts.
Uh, what? I can understanding criticizing a specific PSU brand as being too unreliable or low-quality, but come on! Just saying "any PSU less than $__ is crap, you need to spend at least $__" makes you sound like a classic Conspicuous Consumer.
get 2-4 GB ram mini should only be about $50-$60 for good 8 GB DDR 3 you want at least dual channel ram.
This is a NAS, not a server. Half a gig would be sufficient, honestly - I've run some with 256MB. One gig is plenty, unless you want to keep files on a RAMdisk.
8 sata ports you may want to get a pci-e raid card / sata card. Maybe even SAS.
When you're just building a home/small office NAS, you don't need a high-performance RAID card - software RA
bybroken_chaos ( 1188549 ) writes:
RAID 6 is only needed when it's possible for a drive to fail, and then for another to fail while the array is still recovering. There's no point in doing it with only 8 drives.
It's also extremely useful if you run into an unrecoverable read error while trying to rebuild the array.
A lot of standard mechanical drives have an unrecoverable read error rate of about 1-in-10^14 bits (or 1-in-~12TB), meaning you're getting into some pretty nasty chances of hitting an URE on at least one of your disks when you're trying to rebuild the array after a disk failure with a decently-large array. This issue is alleviated when you have storage with an URE rate of 1-in-10^15 or higher (such as so
byswalve ( 1980968 ) writes:
That's why you have cron do a raidcheck once a week. You'll know if you have a drive starting to go TU before it completely fails.
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byunrtst ( 777550 ) writes:
BAH! Sure,that's not bad to do, but if one drive does go tits up, then you (home user) order a replacement, wait, get new drive, try to rebuild, what's the chances just one in 7 of those remaining 2tb drives has just one read error? If so, raid array rebuild fails.
We're approaching the per-disk capacity and failure rate where raid 5 isn't enough (there's an EXCELLENT article on this somewhere - looked it up... I think this was it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162 [zdnet.com])
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