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Highest density NAS? (number of drives per dollar)

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I'm gonna be buying a NAS in the coming weeks and I want to know which NAS's in particular are very cost-efficient in terms of expandability.

 

I'd prefer to buy from either ncix, newegg, or amazon and umm I need it to support raid6 or at least raid5 and support at least 5 drives?

Budget is somewhat not an issue, but I prefer to have as many drives/dollar as possible

 

I'm looking at this NAS, but I'm not quite sure

http://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-Diskless-Attached-DS1813/dp/B00CRB53CU/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1397844112&sr=8-26&keywords=network+attached+storage

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If you have the ability to do it: Build one yourself. You can save loads of money. I've build a NAS in a Fractal Node 304 (potentially 6 Drives) for 400€ including 2 3TB drives. The software setup really isn't difficult and performance often is even better than prebuilt.

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Synology is good - also QNAP is excellent. 

 

You also have your DIY options, like unraid or freenas...

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Why not build one yourself? It's cheaper, and you can do it to your own specifications.

Plus, you can buy separate NAS parts sold by the brands that make them, including Synology, to assist you in the build.

For example, look into FreeNAS.

 

Or, would you just rather say screw it and not care as much about the money? Because this would change things.

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I'm gonna be buying a NAS in the coming weeks and I want to know which NAS's in particular are very cost-efficient in terms of expandability.

 

I'd prefer to buy from either ncix, newegg, or amazon and umm I need it to support raid6 or at least raid5 and support at least 5 drives?

Budget is somewhat not an issue, but I prefer to have as many drives/dollar as possible

 

I'm looking at this NAS, but I'm not quite sure

http://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-Diskless-Attached-DS1813/dp/B00CRB53CU/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1397844112&sr=8-26&keywords=network+attached+storage

Synology is excellent, and you won't have to deal with hardware issues thanks to customer support, which is one of the downsides of building a NAS yourself.

 

Prebuilt NASes tend to be more expandable while also maintaining density; if you build your own, your case will be the same size regardless of the number of drives. With Synology expandable units you can add expansion bays as you need them, saving you space in the short term.

 

If you only need a few drives (i.e. not dozens), then either a prebuilt or a DIY will work well, though you can get more performance out of a DIY than (most) prebuilt solutions.

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I say build one yourself, its the route I went and am very happy with it. Also, if you do, look into openmediavault. Its a free OS that works great imo. The problem with Freenas, its really meant for an actual server. I did a lot of research into it and to be honest, freenas likes ECC RAM and fun stuff like that because the filesystem it uses ZFS. This also means to get anywhere near decent performance, you need 1 gig of RAM per TB of disc space. And that is a serious specification. I talked to people with a 12 TB system with 8 gigs of RAM and it was slow as crap. Upped it to 16 gigs and it maxed their gigabit lan. So if you plan on having 20TB of storage space, you will need 20 gigs of RAM+. Thus openmediavault (OMV) is a good option, it is just a normal journal file system that doesn't depend on RAM like ZFS. OMV has software RAID 5 and 6, and can support just about any controller as well if you want to use a RAID card to set up a true RAID 6. I run software RAID6 (RAID Z2) on 8x3TB drives for 2 years now, and its going great!

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Is this dense enough and cheap enough?

 

http://www.u-nas.com/product/nsc800.html

 

Ref: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/114421-u-nas-chassis/

 

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