NAS recommendations?

[Stewartrc]

Evening all

 

I've looked around a bit at a few NAS's.

 

Just wanted to know what other people are running and what you recommend? Custom and per-built

 

Just the normal stuff it would be used for, Music, movies etc

 

 

 

Cheers guys

 

[Zeke]

I've got a Synology DS213j. It's a nice little device, I've had no problem setting it up (not only as a NAS, but also a torrent-machine, DLNA and print-server). I haven't got to set up a network scanner on it though...

 

I've gone with it because I didn't need a lot of drives, and had basically zero components to build a custom one, and Synology is one of the best (but probably not the cheapest) NAS vendors out there.

[Fulgrim]

If you have any leftover spare parts, like an old dual core or whatever, put one together with some WD Red drives as storage. Slap FreeNAS on and you're good to go. My buddy has a 6core bulldozer which he was gonna throw out, but ended up building a cheap NASbox, which stores all his music/movies/anime etc, and hosts a Teamspeak 3 server off it.

[Zeke]

If you have any leftover spare parts, like an old dual core or whatever, put one together with some WD Red drives as storage. Slap FreeNAS on and you're good to go. My buddy has a 6core bulldozer which he was gonna throw out, but ended up building a cheap NASbox, which stores all his music/movies/anime etc, and hosts a Teamspeak 3 server off it.

6-core NAS. That's hardcore

[Judahnator]

I built my own.

 

for about $300, i got 3TB storage w/ 4GB RAM for cacheing. I can achieve full gigabit speeds writing and ~70Mbps read

[cox1000]

Yeah, I have found the experience with NASs from companies like Synology not to be that great. If I were you I would get a cheap second hand pc off of ebay or use one that you have lying around. However if you can't that I can recommend a Lacie 2 Big NAS as that is what I use to backup all of my machines to and it works perfectly.

[Fulgrim]

6-core NAS. That's hardcore

It's undervolted ofc, and has all the power saving shite enabled. Sometimes use it as a private server for CS1.6/CSS matches.

[Stewartrc]

Cheers Warhammer are take alook.

 

 

If you have any leftover spare parts, like an old dual core or whatever, put one together with some WD Red drives as storage. Slap FreeNAS on and you're good to go. My buddy has a 6core bulldozer which he was gonna throw out, but ended up building a cheap NASbox, which stores all his music/movies/anime etc, and hosts a Teamspeak 3 server off it.

 

I was thinking about this

 

Just wanted to know what people were using.

 

 

Keep hearing bad things about "certain!" brands of NAS