looking for a decent nas

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MFCGMFC

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hey all

i'm looking for a decent nas box that can support at least 2TB, so i suppose sata is a must, also support bit torrent and maybe streaming but that isnt a must

i seen one on ebay for £80 can anyone beat that?

TIA
 
It would help if you told us what NAS you saw for £80. For all we know, that NAS you saw could have been a piece of shit or something worse.

Also a few more questions:
- 2TB in RAID5 just a bunch of disks totalling up to and past 2TB?
- What's your max budget for this NAS?
- Are you looking for a prebuilt or DIY NAS?
 
its was a jbod nas once i find the link i'll post it up

the 2TB either by 2 1TB HDD's or more whatever is available

the budget for this nas (doesnt include the hard drives) is £80

either a prebuilt or a diy nas would do

the main thing si'm looking for is at least 2TB and support for bit torrent, oh and as quiet as possible aswell please :)

Thanks
 
A store bought nas for £80 sounds awfully to me like the concept "you get what you pay for", the cheap nas units out there are horrible in terms of performance.

Look at building a super cheap rig and toss WHS on it.
 
i can never get a build to run quietly

i just fancied a nas due to less power consumption and less noise
 
decent nas with torrent applications etc for £80 it ain't happening
 
MFCGMFC said:
i can never get a build to run quietly

i just fancied a nas due to less power consumption and less noise
Click to expand...

Thats why you buy lower end hardware and put in slow fans ;)

A lower end system is going to use the same amount of power as your NAS unt.
 
When I converted from a stand alone server to my first NAS about a year ago, I tried several of the cheap NAS boxes that I found at the local electronics stores (Best Buy, CC, Microcenter) and was thoroughly unimpressed with them. I then found this site, Small Net Builder. He has the best collection of NAS info and reviews out there, from DIY projects to in depth reviews of every level of prebuilt NAS units out there.

After digging around there for a week, I bought my first NAS, a Hammer Myshare 1TB and was very pleased with my purchase. I recently filled it up, and just purchased a Thecus N5200 5 slot NAS, with 3 1 TB drives running in Raid 5. I will add the other 2 drives as needed.

Now, in my experience, 80 pounds (no symbol on my KB) will not get you a stand alone unit that you will be happy with. You may be able to build your own if you want to use Linux, but a copy of Windows alone will eat up your budget.

Spend some time on Small Net Builder, and you will see what I mean.

Good luck, and let us know how things turn out for you.

Don
 
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