Reason for not buying PC instead of prebuilt NAS

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2 minutes ago, xWood4000 said:

That's a really nice product. I think that a custom-built would be cheaper though, even with 10Gb. You wouldn't get the software or compactness though.

It would have certainly been cheaper in hardware alone, but not hardware + time.

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Just now, Densetsu said:

It would have certainly been cheaper in hardware alone, but not hardware + time.

True, but they still have to charge profit and personally my time isn't worth that much since I'm in school still and have only done a few summerjobs. That is of course very dependent on the person's life situation, most people over 25 if not younger probably have more valuable time than it takes for this (if it isn't a part of their job).

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1 minute ago, xWood4000 said:

True, but they still have to charge profit and personally my time isn't worth that much since I'm in school still and have only done a few summerjobs. That is of course very dependent on the person's life situation, most people over 25 if not younger probably have more valuable time than it takes for this (if it isn't a part of their job).

Yeah, I meant personally. What it took to insert the drives and ram and getting the software up and running was a couple of hours vs. building that entire setup from scratch. Def. would have been more expensive for me to do it or even having one of my employees do it.

 

If it's just a weekend project type thing to store plex and some backup, building a freenas box is def. the way to go. This wasn't the case for me.

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Personal preference really, a lot of people don't care about lower level management.

 

Qnap etc are a bit better in power consumption than a standard PC.  A lot of it is time/effort and knowledge based considerations.

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1 hour ago, beersykins said:

Personal preference really, a lot of people don't care about lower level management.

 

Qnap etc are a bit better in power consumption than a standard PC.  A lot of it is time/effort and knowledge based considerations.

Yeah, if you view it as a hobby project it's quite easy to do DIY but if you don't have time to spend on it then it is a better idea to buy prebuilt.

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3 hours ago, xWood4000 said:

That seems like a good method, you just have to make sure that it supports all the features you may want like 10Gb/s ethernet and fast SATA. I actually have an old workstation as my photo+video archive right now (smallish form factor) with fedora so using that software could level up my game.

I can confirm that my system runs 10GBe peer to peer to save dough on a freaking crazy expensive switch see my current iteration in my signature it will give you an idea mind you I have upgraded from a lot of the prebuilt hardware after confirming it was a good fit for my use case but it was a basic pre-built tower when I started