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| geek_love |
My ever expanding media collection is now at a point where I have too many drives connected to various devices around the house so I'm looking to buy a NAS device. It needs to be able to stream music, divx TV and 720p movies and an itunes server would be a nice-to-have.
I'm currently drawn to the QNAP TS-410, but i'm open to suggestions. I can get the NAS for £300 and add 4xTB drives for another £300 - Giving me 6TB of usable storage using RAID 5 for £600 which I don't think is a bad price.
Anyone have any good/bad experiences with NAS ?
Ta
GL
| 29 Oct 10, 4:21 PM SlaveOrion 3 yrs  |
I got an Icy Box (not sure which model, but I can find it if you like) from Overclockers and it's a great piece of kit. 2 drives in an aluminium casing. It runs Linux so it can be modded if you so desire! | |
| 29 Oct 10, 11:54 PM Phrixus UK(ST), 5 yrs |
Would be fascinated to hear what MBytes/s throughput you achieve.  This signature has been left blank intentionally. | |
| 30 Oct 10, 5:58 PM Christina1394 UK(BS), 3 yrs |
If it's JUST a NAS you want, I'd put a couple of drives in a small case with a cheap MiniITX board, a couple of gig of memory and a decent gigabit NIC. Install your preferred free operating system and Samba (or FreeNAS) and you're done. You can certainly build that for less than £600. | |
| 30 Oct 10, 6:46 PM geek_love 2 yrs |
Thanks for the advice. Not sure I want to build anything and RAiD is something I want so 4 bays and of the shelf is what Im looking for. Ive read that the QNAP can easily support multiple 720 movies, which is also on my wish list. Write speed is not an issue as its main purpose will be media streaming. Its so horrible but you can't just look away. It's like watching a monkey swallow a live hand grenade. | |
| 30 Oct 10, 7:28 PM Christina1394 UK(BS), 3 yrs |
That is the downside to building it yourself: you have to build it yourself! Although there's no reason you couldn't throw in a 4 port SATA RAID controller too, or just use software RAID. | |
| 30 Oct 10, 11:01 PM switchling UK, 6 yrs |
We've got a Qnap TS-209 II; didn't have the wonga for a four bay at the time. Can't really fault it at all, very pleased. I run it with two 500GB drives in mirror mode for safety and get a reliable 130Mb per sec transfer rate over Gb Ethernet which I count as pretty decent. You'll know the Qnap feature list and from those I've used it's been really solid. Not able to comment on multiple 720p streams, but single stream video has been fine. s | |
| 30 Oct 10, 11:44 PM geek_love 2 yrs |
Thanks for that. Any drive recommendations? Im looking at 2TB ones, that way I can spend my cash once and be future proof. Its so horrible but you can't just look away. It's like watching a monkey swallow a live hand grenade. | |
| 31 Oct 10, 3:29 PM filthfromfingers UK(RG), 4 yrs |
I have an Iomega StorCentre Pro. Just sits there and behaves. The only draw back is that it doesn't come on when the power returns after a powercut, but I have just changed my UPS and it is connected to that now, so hopefully I have corrected that problem. S -- To err is human but to really fowl things up requires a computer - anon | |
| 7 Nov 10, 12:21 PM badspyro UK(M), 8 yrs |
http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/HP_Proliant_ML110... £300, good piece of kit, solid and server grade rather than desktop. Install linux, and there are itunes servers, streaming servers and all sorts available for free - a consideration considering that this machine comes with no software licences at all. Uni is bliss... | |
| 5 Dec 10, 2:02 AM Mac_rame UK(E), 12 yrs |
Well I'd say it depends on your space requirements and whether you want new or part worn I chose a readynas NV+ with 1Gb initially, since upgraded to 2 and now 4 with their X raid system. Hot swap drives and automatic (ish) expansion all in a very small and quiet case. A friend went for the Buffalo Terrastation which is not quite as small as the readynas but has proven equally as reliable and quiet. If however you want to spend more on the drives and less on the container you can get 19" rack mount Nas equipment on ebay pathetically cheap and it will usually fit nicely under the footwell of most desks so it's out of the way. For the price you're thinking of spending here's an 8Tb raid http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lacie-Ethernet-Disk-8TB-NA... Or slightly more expensive a 6Tb buffalo http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EXTERNAL-HARD-DRIVE-BUFFAL...
Or get two 4Tb bufflao's for the same price
There's a lot of review sites out there for Nas devices, once you decide which package works best for you google the reviews and pick a price Wayne Politicians are like nappies |
