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Really depends what you want to do.
Just as a storage or backup device?
Small SQL server?
Personal cloud?
ITunes?
Small web server?
Some can have ERP software running straight from it.
Tried a sweet high performance Thunderbolt enclosure a little while ago, really liked it.
Synology, QNAP, Drobo...etc.. all make good enclosures for different uses.
Am I the only one who thinks he wants a DAS of some kind?
I've had great experiences with both Synology and QNAP - they are very similar. You can get them with varying CPUs, ranging from adequate ARM CPUS that are very power efficient to a full blown Intel Core CPU. They are really just pre-built Linux boxes with a web-based admin portal. On almost all of them you can SSH in and do Linux stuff directly if you prefer, and they come with a lot of pre-assembled packages for just about any type of server stuff you'd want to do.
If your just wanting backup and storage, the CPU & RAM won't make a lot of difference. It really kicks in if you are using the NAS for additional services, or have a lot of users hammering it at the same time.
He wants a DAS not a NAS.
The ones I have from Icy Dock are eSATA/USB and are only compatible with a Marvell chip provided in the form of a PCIe card, and even then I've stopped using the eSATA feature as sometimes when powering one unit it would crash my computer. So my faith in eSATA is gone and nowadays I would go for a USB3 unit.
Yeah, what I want is to just take a bunch of drives and combine them. Like use drivepool or something. Would be storage only.
It's not just eSATA it's eSATA + port multiplier. I actually changed mobo without improvement. The onboard controllers (Intel and something else I don't remember ATM) only see one drive, with the Marvell cards it works until it doesn't.
i'll take your word for it. I never used eSATA DAS so maybe its different.
Well, SATA is a point-to-point link, so the only way for a multiple-disk eSATA DAS is to use a port multiplier in between. Port multipliers are not supported by Intel ICH5-ICH10, except for the ICH9R(AID) and ICH10R(AID) versions; support has apparently been added since the P55 (i7-920 days).
The problem is port multiplication support was an optional part of the SATA specification, so it was often implement missing or half-assed.
Asustor has gotten very good reviews and hardware is pretty good so it'll be nice.
BH Photo is however quite a bit cheaper... (about 160$)
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1184533-REG/asustor_as5010t_10_bay_nas_server.html/ap/y
I would however highly recommend you do add more memory, at least 4Gb.
Running a 10TB+ storage server on 2Gb of RAM is just a bad idea.