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Mr. Thrilly

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  1. Hi musicbreaker From what I'm reading here I would opt for a ready-made NAS enclosure from Qnaps of Synology. From my personal experience, Synology offers ease of use, reliability and is quite cost effective. All come with it's own system (Linux distro running inside your browser) with a plethora of apps to use. You can easily surround yourself with few regular apps you use to upload/download content to your machines/mobile devices without a need of a sys-admin degree. It takes a few evenings to figure everything out, but I found that they are not only relatively easy to set up, but most importantly perhaps, super reliable once you get there. I understand the urge to build your own setup - I find tinkering quite interesting myself, but when it comes to my data, I am keen to rely on reliable devices, built by pro's. Look at 2-bay setups perhaps. One of those puppies plus a couple of 3-4 GB hard drives would most likely satisfy your budget. Considering your main data traffic would revolve around image upload/download, you do not need that much processing power - that at lest is what I got from your post. Also, setting them up in Raid 1 for full redundancy would be an idea, as images tend not to take up too much space (forgive my ignorance, if that's not the case here). Food for thought. I hope it helps you in some way.
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