DonasaurusRex
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...isnt it network attached storage?
Own a Synology DS410 with four 2TB Seagate Barracuda Green HDDs, in Raid 5 config.
Really like it - however am perplexed on how to upgrade in the future. Will need inventive thinking to move all the contents elsewhere when the time comes.
Also, have to say that I'm impressed with the development Synology have given the operating system from v3 to v4. Good stuff.
Adding more HDDs to a case will make it hotter and louder. Each HDD will generate additional heat and noise, no really getting around that. The nice thing about having your storage separate from your client (HTPC) is that you can stick it in a closet with cooling somewhere and not worry about either. I guess you could do that with an HTPC, but then you'd have to run video cable through to your TV, and you couldn't use a remote.
How much options do you get if you're going the NAS route? Wouldn't it basically just mean adding drives to a NAS case with a prebuilt chipset from [insert manufacturer here]?You can build your own NAS from scratch if you're a power user. I go back and forth on which I prefer, but you have the option.
Sure, a NAS with several drives wouldn't be small either. You could go as big as a full on ATX Case in horizontal mode, which would be as big as an A/V reciever, or it could be as small as a wii. The larger it gets, the more options of hardware comes available.First of all, that would be a massive HTPC! I realize size isn't that important to some, but many of the HTPCs sold these days are around the size of a Nintendo Wii, if not smaller. With Raspeberry Pi + XMBC, they'll be about the size of an Apple TV (heck you can even jailbreak an ATV2 and use it as an HTPC).
A NAS would not be able to handle anything better than a HTPC with similar price tag would be. Sure, a NAS might have some optimization going on, but i still would question if the price tag would be worth it? A S775 core 2 duo is dirt cheap and would handle all tasks perfectly fine even if there would be several clients.Performance-wise, if you only have a 1 client system, you're right, it would be equivalent. Performance becomes an issue when you have multiple clients all connecting to your main HTPC. Without a NAS, that main HTPC has to both serve media to multiple clients plus play back media itself. It's juggling multiple streams. With a NAS, each client only has a single stream (to itself). The NAS does all of the serving, so your machines that actually play the media won't have issues, and the NAS is specially built to handle simultaneous network connections without performance issues, while an HTPC probably isn't.
Nah nothing wrong with a little healthy debate IMO. We can continue this over PM though if people are getting irritated. I think we both see each other's POV anyway, just different personal preferences.
I'm close to pulling the trigger on a Synology box but keep coming across reviews that complain that file operations take a really long time. Are these boxes meant mainly for backup and media streaming, or are these reviews just off the mark?
File operations?
Not in my experience.For example, having the NAS mounted as a volume and deleting a file. Some folks were saying that took ~30 seconds.
I've spent the last 18 months building my dream movie server / audio streamer / household backup system.
I have a solaris box in the roof that runs ZFS over 6 x 2 tb hard drives. This gives me around 8 TB of space, but means that I can have two drives fail and still not lose a single byte of data... ZFS is to all intents and purposes bulletproof and the only way to go if you're serious about this NAS stuff.
I drilled through the floor of the roof and hard wired the server to my switch. Now, I can pretty much access all of my movies and music in any room - Solaris supports cifs/samba natively, so it's pretty compatible.... I run a Boxee Box in my living room and it streams bluray ISOs with no issues at all.
If anyone is serious about keeping their data, it's certainly worth considering ZFS / RAID-Z2. It's a far superior file system option to vanilla RAID configurations, and has a bunch of features to ensure your data integrity. It'll even perform "scrubs" periodically, where it goes through all of your data bit by bit to check integrity and guard against bit rot, silently correcting errors as it goes.
For anyone interested in finding out more, this is a great article to start with.. it guides you through the whole process with screenshots (it's surprisingly easy though!) - http://dsc.sun.com/openstorage/articles/opensolaris_nas.html
Would you guys choose Seagate Barracuda 3TB or Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB internal drive?
Want to upgrade from two measly 500 GB NAS drives to 6 TB.
Seagate Constellation
Too much money for those at the moment. I only use the NAS as storage and backup.
Yeah. More expensive, but super reliable...
Yeah, I figure I will be ok though and I really don't have the money to spend around $500 on two drives.
So my original question still stands, which of the two should I grab?
Have a WHSv1 setup. Today is the end of life date.
Looking at alternatives.
What are my options?
1. Upgrade to a Windows Home Server 2011 which eols in 2016.
2. Upgrade to a Windows Server 2012 Essentials setup. Problem is one license is super expensive.
3. ???
Suggestions? I'm looking for a machine that can centralize backup clients and make backups of shared data on a network.
I'm enjoying my Synology because of the community. There are a bunch of apps from third parties and Synology themselves.
Which model did you end up getting?
I'm thinking of retiring my old readynas, and moving to a more active NAS for work.
Have a WHSv1 setup. Today is the end of life date.
Looking at alternatives.
What are my options?
1. Upgrade to a Windows Home Server 2011 which eols in 2016.
2. Upgrade to a Windows Server 2012 Essentials setup. Problem is one license is super expensive.
3. ???
Suggestions? I'm looking for a machine that can centralize backup clients and make backups of shared data on a network.
You can also use windows 8 as a home server. I think this is the route I'm going to take when my WHS1 box dies
I thought about this one for a while.
The details for this are a bit unclear for me though.
Does that mean I will have to create a local user or Windows account user for this machine?
I was just looking at NAS's yesterday. But man they are soo expensive. I need a cheap NAS solution that works with Sick Beard
Any thoughts?
I was just looking at NAS's yesterday. But man they are soo expensive. I need a cheap NAS solution that works with Sick Beard
Any thoughts?
I'm not entirely sure. Unless you have all win 8 machines you would to keep your files centrally located on the windows 8 box to use storage spaces/file history. If you're not using windows 8 on the clients you could just run nightly backups.
I kind of skimmed this thread and I'm lost. Where can I find a device that's as simple as the Drobo, better than the Drobo, but costs less than the Drobo?
This is what you bought right?
I think the model I own is the older version. All I know is that Synology is very well respected and the software support is great. Installing stuff on the NAS itself and getting apps for your phone is awesome.This is what you bought right?
EDIT: Bought
I've got a Synology DS413j I'm getting ready to populate.
What are the recommended HDDs? I'm looking at 3 or 4 x 1.5 or 2 TB drives to start with...
Want to stay as close to $100/drive as possible...
I've got a Synology DS413j I'm getting ready to populate.
What are the recommended HDDs? I'm looking at 3 or 4 x 1.5 or 2 TB drives to start with...
Want to stay as close to $100/drive as possible...
What are recommendations for a 4-bay NAS, ideally something that is easy to admin and can run a sabnzbd client
I have an unraid 5-bay microserver and one drive is on the way out, but its a pain to administer because its all command line stuff and I often get issues with permissions. Can't be arsed with it all any more, I'll pay more to have something that needs less effort
what is sabnzbd?
IWW >>> ya favorite rapper's life.
File System
- EXT4
- EXT3 (External Disk Only)
- FAT (External Disk Only)
- NTFS (External Disk Only)