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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
byHuguesT ( 84078 ) writes:
1- I don't know of any good-quality power supply below about $60. Good quality means Japanese capacitor, low ripple, good resistance to micro cuts, no lead, good current on the 12V rail, at least bronze-level efficiency, silence, and so on. Cheap no-name PS eventually fail, sometime taking the whole PC with them. Most people dismiss the PS, but it is an essential investment in a piece of equipment that runs all the time.
Read this [tomshardware.com] for instance.
2- On a homebrew NAS you want to run ZFS, you really do. In fact
byBLKMGK ( 34057 ) writes:
Look at unRAID. One drive supports the parity and the FS is standard ReiserFS. Lose a disk and a rebuild is no problem. Lose TWO disks, and be completely unable to recover with standard tools, and you lose.... two disks of data NOT the entire damned thing. In 5++ years of using this system and having gone through multiple drive failures I've never once lost data. Never once had two disks die at once either and my systems run 24X7X365. I had one machine up to over 11 disks once but with larger disks have brought it's spindle count down. One of my machines now has 10 disks, no issues. Some of the drives in it are smaller so as they fill I swap in larger drives - seamlessly. When I moved from IDE drives to SATA I swapped the hardware without issues. I don't have some of the advantages of ZFS I know but I also do NOT have the headaches and can swap drives easily - video isn't likely to have much duplication anyway. I may not have quite the speed of some of the crazy RAID schemes but when you're streaming HD video you don't have to have balls to the wall speed, it's simply not required. Hell one of my systems only wants to synch at 100meg instead of GigE and it streams 1080P BD quality video with no issues so speed is certainly not an issue for me. Build something complex with tons of RAM, weird parity spanning, and all the rest - I'll stick with something simple that spins down my idle drives to save power and doesn't eat me alive trying to support ubber redundant and unnecessary parity schemes...
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