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    Awesome. Thanks. This'll save a ton of time.
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    Hey there Dmshag,   If you are looking for a more simpler remote access NAS to manage your data between multiple devices with more redundancy, I could suggest that you check out WD's 4-bay NAS solutions. They offer good capacities, many useful functions such as third-party app support, mobile apps for other devices and very easy setting up and management. Particular models that I can recommend are the WD My Cloud EX4, EX4100 and DL4100: WD My Cloud EX4: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=M9ECdL WD My Cloud EX4100: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=0Tj3Eg WD My Cloud DL4100: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=5JEpC5   You can also check out the other NASs and see if any of them can meet your needs and budget: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=SwsnXY   Feel free to ask if I can help with anything else   Captain_WD.
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    Dmshag reacted to scottyseng in DIY remotely accessible NAS solution   
    How much space would you say you would need? And speed? What programs or applications will you run on it? Budget?
     
    I would say if you want to go RAID, you will need Windows and a RAID Card (LSI MegaRAID), but the RAID card would run you $600-700 with the battery backup. Or if you want to do software RAID, Windows storage spaces is okay.
     
    The other route is to run FreeNAS (free) and ZFS (ZFS provides protection like RAID, with the addition of corruption prevention). However, it requires a fair bit of ECC RAM to be stable, which also requires a C series chipset.
     
    If it's a basic system, I would say get a basic Intel Haswell i3 CPU, a C series motherboard (SuperMicro makes pretty good ones), at least 8 GB ECC RAM, and some kind of case for it (That's up to personal pref on your side), if you go the windows route, a SSD for the OS drive. If you go FreeNAS, get a flash drive for the OS (FreeNAS is quite small). Probably 2-3 4TB Western Digital Red Drives to get started (Well, that's up to you on size though).
     
    I've set up Windows Server on my PC, so I only know how the Windows side of things works. I finally got my server up and running with remote web access and remote network drives. I can tell you six 4TB WD red drives on RAID 10 will do about 500MB/s sequential read and 480 sequential write on my LSI MegaRAID 9260CV-8i.
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