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Home NAS Enclosure / Shell

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I have been in the market for a hard drive appliance that can be hooked into my home network to be accessed by multiple computers in my house. There are many companies that put out NAS products for the home. I was looking at Maxtor and Buffalo. The problem is the units are rather pricy. I have seen the enclosures for IDE drives the make them USB or Firewire, all over the web. I was wondering if anyone has seen the same style enclosure with a network card built in. A shell "put in a custom hard drive", if you will, home NAS.

Thanks in advance,
 
I also was inquiring to anyone that has purchased one of these units. Which one they went with, seems like there are so many companies out there that put out low quality products.

The netgear one might be a good bet but still hasn't hit the street.
 
I'm interested in this too.

Has anybody found one of these that you can install more than 1 drive in?
That won't break the bank. I saw a couple on newegg that came with up to 4 drives but the want $800 and up for them.

For that I can build a POS system to act as a server and get a lot more functionality and expandibitity.

 
I tried one of these, and the out-of-the-box experience was not impressive to me. I thought the software/interface was terrible and it didn't work right half the time.

I took it back.

-Larry

Finsta said:
I would get the NSLU2 from Linksys, loads of fun with hacking that but it's USB.
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If you are thinking of doing Raid-5, be aware that most of these, including the expensive Buffalo Terrastation, are software based Raid-5.

I was looking at this too and instead decided to just upgrade the server I have at home with a 3Ware Raid-5 card and 6 300GB Seagate drives.

Now, that may be a bit over-the-top for you, but you don't have to use 6 drives and you don't have to use 300GB drives.

My total kit including the drives, 3Ware 9500S-8 SATA PCI-X card and some miscellaneous adatpers with overnight shipping was around $1600.

You can shave several hundred off that by going with less or smaller drives. You could do it for a grand.

-Larry
 
rodsfree said:
I'm interested in this too.

Has anybody found one of these that you can install more than 1 drive in?
That won't break the bank. I saw a couple on newegg that came with up to 4 drives but the want $800 and up for them.

For that I can build a POS system to act as a server and get a lot more functionality and expandibitity.

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The netgear one (look at CDW link above) lets you use 2 drives if you wish but it doesnt support RAID and isn't out quite yet (2+ weeks says the website).
 
TechLarry said:
If you are thinking of doing Raid-5, be aware that most of these, including the expensive Buffalo Terrastation, are software based Raid-5.

I was looking at this too and instead decided to just upgrade the server I have at home with a 3Ware Raid-5 card and 6 300GB Seagate drives.

Now, that may be a bit over-the-top for you, but you don't have to use 6 drives and you don't have to use 300GB drives.

My total kit including the drives, 3Ware 9500S-8 SATA PCI-X card and some miscellaneous adatpers with overnight shipping was around $1600.

You can shave several hundred off that by going with less or smaller drives. You could do it for a grand.

-Larry
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Yikes, thats for your house? That's one mean home file server if so.
 
Yeah, I'm tired of trying to keep up with hundreds and hundreds of PC CD's, so one of the things I'm doing is creating ISO's of everything to store on the server.

Plus it's going to be my media server for the whole house, as well as a backup point for the workstations, Mac's, etc...

I've been beat though. There's a guy over in the "How big is your hard drive" thread that has a 5TB :)

-Larry

VX1 said:
Yikes, thats for your house? That's one mean home file server if so.
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TechLarry said:
I've been beat though. There's a guy over in the "How big is your hard drive" thread that has a 5TB :)

-Larry
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Check out Douglite's sig....
3+ TB and counting at home.

Both of these guys are just obsene....think of the pr0n... :D


 
VX1 said:
The netgear one (look at CDW link above) lets you use 2 drives if you wish but it doesnt support RAID and isn't out quite yet (2+ weeks says the website).
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It's pretty good....

What would be perfect is one that would require 3 or more identical drives for a RAID-5 array. Just to get the redundancy.

It could be either software or hardware RAID.....the network would limit your transfer rates anyway....so speed wouldn't matter. Plus - for a home server it's not like it would be seeing thousands of file requests at one time.

I'm probably going to build a "piece of crap" celeron or sempron box and software RAID-5 it in Fedora. That way I get an upgrade path for the OS with the web server, print server, ftp server, and everything else built in on install.

 
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