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<£400 NAS, >=2TB

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I'd like to create, or purchase a network attached storage for my home. I'm looking for a minimum of 2TB storage.

 

Here's some info:

Location: England, United Kingdom.

Budget: <£400, around <$600.

Aim: A network-attached-storage for a family of 3 for media storage and the storage of documents and video projects. >=2TB

Monitors: N/A

Peripherals: N/A

Why are you upgrading?: N/A; never had a NAS before, and I have no old PCs.

Maybe I Like Bacon? :ph34r:

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Motherboard: MSI H97M-E35 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£59.17 @ CCL Computers) 




Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  (£39.33 @ Amazon UK) 


Total: £428.60

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-24 21:16 GMT+0000

either 8 TB storage or 4 TB raid 1 with redundancy

Rigs I've Built

The Striker i5 4590 @ 3.7 ||  MSI GTX 980 Armor X2 || Corsair RMX 750 || Team Elite Plus 8 GB || Define S || MSI Z97S SLI Krait

The Office PC i3 4160 @ 3.6 || Intel 4600 || EVGA 500B || G.Skill 8 GB || Cooler Master N200 || ASRock H97M Pro4

The Friend PC G3258 @ 4.3 || Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X || EVGA 600B || 8 GB Dell Ram || Cooler Master N200 || ASRock H97M- iTX/ac

The Mom Gaming PC A10-7890K @ 4.4 || iGPU + ASUS R7 250 ||  8 GB Klevv DDR3-2800 Mhz

 

 

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Like the look of these, but would like to see a couple other suggestions! :P

Wondering if the Barracuda can keep up with 24/7 operation... But it wont be actively used that long.

 

I'll be using FreeNAS as well, any tips for that?

Maybe I Like Bacon? :ph34r:

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Like the look of these, but would like to see a couple other suggestions! :P

Wondering if the Barracuda can keep up with 24/7 operation... But it wont be actively used that long.

 

I'll be using FreeNAS as well, any tips for that?

Sorry, I am not using that method to store my stuff. The barracudas do have raid support. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Hsv6CJ

If u want to spend a bit extra on wd reds, which may be a better choice. Don't want to risk the barracudas crapping out on u after all :P

I thought I had some money... Oh wait... I spent it all ;(

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Pretty sure that FreeNAS needs 4GB minimum and a recommended least of 8GB. :(

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Pretty sure that FreeNAS needs 4GB minimum and a recommended least of 8GB. :(

Oh yeah thanks for reminding me about that

I thought I had some money... Oh wait... I spent it all ;(

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If it's only for storage and nothing else then you can just get an unpopulated NAS box and a hard drive.

 

These prices are from OCUK, and might not be the cheapest for these items.

 

Synology DiskStation DS115j 1 bay desktop NAS £89.99

Western Digital Caviar Red Pro 4TB £172.99

 

Total cost £262.98 (not including delivery which is likely to add over £10 to the final cost).

 

You can add another 2TB for a little under £20 by replacing the 4TB hard drive for a 6TB hard drive (again this is just from a quick check and prices might be cheaper elsewhere).

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