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Looking into a NAS, would like to see what you guys think ?

nicholastank2
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So right now. Any shows, movies, music and so on is downloaded through my dads computer to a 2TB external hard drive. But i am starting to looking into a NAS so that we don't have to go and transfer content from my dads pc to what ever device we are gonna watch it on. So i was looking at a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra and i would get my own hard drives. I personally like to have content on a hard drive in my place as i feel like i ownership over it and this would allow content to be more accessible. So is this a sensible use case for NAS or A GIANT WASTE OF MONEY ?

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I just use an old Dell OptiPlex 330 running FreeNAS. Everything about it, even the drives it has, was free. It works great and I get about 120 MB/s speeds over a 10/100/1000 (gigabit) connection. 

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22 minutes ago, nicholastank2 said:

So right now. Any shows, movies, music and so on is downloaded through my dads computer to a 2TB external hard drive. But i am starting to looking into a NAS so that we don't have to go and transfer content from my dads pc to what ever device we are gonna watch it on. So i was looking at a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra and i would get my own hard drives. I personally like to have content on a hard drive in my place as i feel like i ownership over it and this would allow content to be more accessible. So is this a sensible use case for NAS or A GIANT WASTE OF MONEY ?

Depends if your dads place and your place are in the same house, as well as if not the internet connection speed between your homes, and the ability to make forwarding rules in the routers firewall to access the nas from your dads place...

 

Getting a nas to move files form A to B isn't such a good idea. A Nas needs time to boot up after a complete power down, and those NAS disks are rated for 24/7 usage and not on/off/on/off which will kill them quite fast.

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I live with my parents still. So it would all be going through the house network. Would it be better to use a consumer pc the a NAS ?

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5 hours ago, nicholastank2 said:

I live with my parents still. So it would all be going through the house network. Would it be better to use a consumer pc the a NAS ?

Yes. Especially if you already have one or spare parts to build one. A home file server really doens't need powerful expensive hardware. The bulk of the cost should be in the drives.

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