With black Friday coming up and my current 4T external HDD a few years of age now, expanding my storage has come up. Just adding more external HDD doesn't sound appealing and i would like to unload my plex/deluge on to a separate computer.
What I want:
10-20T of space
Plex
Deluge
transcoding
file storage (video,music,pictures,games,docs)
remote access from computer possible phone
From what I've been able to find out my self I see 3 choice I can make.
A pre built NAS like a DS918+ with some WD red HDD in raid 5 for 1 disk failure. This would get me the space I want and from the synology forums someone has a package to get deluge working on them and plex is supported.
The cons:
lack of transcoding from low power cpus
I don't believe you can remote launch games from here
A custom build this would all me to get all of the feature I wanted. Even with a few parts I could salvage from past build.
The cons:
Price
higher power draw
form factor is larger over a pre built nas
did i say it was expensive
I have an old Toshiba laptop (a505-s6025 if it matters) and it got a few usb ports on it and i could just strap a few external HDD to it and run Teamviewer or chrome remote Desktop or something. And it cheap!
The cons:
god this would look ugly
low speeds from HDD
not sure if the cpu could handle transcodeing
no drive redundancy
im not even 100% sure if this could work
I am currently leaning towards the Nas due to simplicity. With the duct tape laptop a 2nd due to affordability. However I may have over looked other issues and possibility. Thoughts?