Home server vs packaged NAS

[Zarathustra[H]]

Ds380 is great (I run an unraid setup in one). I also like the look of this case (don't have one though):

http://www.u-nas.com/cases.html

That Unas chassis looks pretty awesome.

If I didn't have plenty of basement space to store my behemoth server, and needed something closer to my living space, I'd be looking very hard at that 6 bay model, and using it for a ZFS 6 drive RAIDz2 pool.

Can't find it for sale anywhere though. There was an aliexpress link for it, and it was surprisingly cheap (~$175) but they were out of stock.

None on Amazon, none on ebay.

edit:

Ahh, they sell them directly on their webpage. Still, no 6 bay version there though, but they have the 2, 4 and 8 bay versions in stock, still reasonably priced.

 

[Logan321]

Anyone have experience with Thecus NAS? http://www.ncix.com/detail/thecus-n5550-5bay-sata-raid-28-74067-1015.htm 5 bay for a reasonable price, and seems to support install of linux software though apps.