Anyone running NAS at home?
Anyone running NAS at home?
I currently have an eSATA box plugged into my desktop PC, but that's kind of limiting as I can't tinker with it or turn it off if someone is watching a movie or something.
Been trying to figure out a NAS solution, any of you guys using one at home? Right now I'm debating whether to build my own with spare parts and use something like freeNAS or just buy a QNAP box and use it. QNAP would be simpler but more expensive, inverse would be true on rolling my own.
Been trying to figure out a NAS solution, any of you guys using one at home? Right now I'm debating whether to build my own with spare parts and use something like freeNAS or just buy a QNAP box and use it. QNAP would be simpler but more expensive, inverse would be true on rolling my own.
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I am using a netgear one. I mainly use it for backup between my laptop, PC and wife's computer. It works well. I don't use 20% of the features, though.
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How many drives? I've currently got 7TB of drives in my 4 bay, considering going with quad 4 TBs to do RAID5. I don't have any redundancy right now.
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I only have two 2TB HDs as clones of each other. I don't have that much stuff on my hard drives. It is basically our family pictures, and the music/movies we have bought digitally, then our key documents.
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We have all that and about 250-300 Blu Ray and DVD rips for the home theatre PC.
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Because you don't want to put them in a player?
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It protects them from little hands and we also have a full screen interface on the TV to select a movie and it begins playing.
Looks like this:
Looks like this:
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Got it. Looks cool.
We almost never buy movies anymore. We just don't watch them more than once.
We almost never buy movies anymore. We just don't watch them more than once.
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It does get annoying when I order my kids a movie and it's on Netflix two weeks later. On the bright side they do seem to churn their content quite a bit so there's no guarantee something will always be there.
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Threw some spare parts in a box and am currently running FreeNAS off of a thumb drive. Machine has a mix of old hard drives, a 650GB IDE, a 300GB SATA and a 250GB SATA. Nothing super high speed, just a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of DDR2. Streams quickly enough for HD video and shows right up as an SMB share. I'll give it a whirl for a while but it might just be a reasonable alternative to a QNAP box. Will need more/bigger drives to get full use out of it though.