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doormat

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I'm looking at getting a NAS, but they're all mega-expensive!! I want 1 TB of space (expandable to 3 TB) with a GBe connection, but its like $3000 at the ground floor! I dont need a lot of horsepower (1-3 users, just need tons of space). I'd figure I could get a cheap comp, a few PSes, GBe card, a 12x SATA Raid 5 card and a bunch of 200GB drives for $2000. You'd figure big companies could do it cheaper in volume!

Does anyone know of good, cheap NAS devices (or even directly attached) that can hold 1TB+?
 
I could build you one for less than 2K.

You'd have to configure the software, etc. but i could do the assembly...

PM if interested.

cheers,

dave
 
dave_graham said:
I could build you one for less than 2K.

You'd have to configure the software, etc. but i could do the assembly...

PM if interested.

cheers,

dave
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Yeah, so could anyone. There's nothing special about NAS. Buy a suitable case, put the drives in, make sure your power supplies are good, and that's it. Any Windows OS can create a CIFS share, or Linux for NFS. If he wants to knock himself out, he could try Windows Storage Server 2003 Express to go a notch above the normal NAS.

Big companies have a different mindset--you're talking hot-swap drives, hot-swap redundant PS units, support, tested hardware, tested disks, etc. Your 200GB drives alone are what, $100 each? If you want cheap, go Iomega, but remember, you get what you pay for. Just build it yourself.
 
Yea, I was looking at stuff....

Case: 100
Mobo+Proc: Free (I got a BD7 + P4 1.6a)
Raid Card: ??? (anywhere from 160 to 700)
GBe card: $50
PSes: $150
HDs: 3x250 to begin with, more as needed (I have 2 now)

The case Kyle was pimping on the front page was nice, had 2 spots for PSes and an adaptor for wiring the PS switces together.

RAID cards are still my biggest sticking point, $160 for a promise SX4 (4 sata ports), up to a $700 3ware 12x sata raid 5 card.

I was considering a raidcore card but I hearrd some ugly stuff abuot them at AVS forums.

Edit: Just did some more research and it turns out one of the chips on the Raidcore RC4000 series cards were defective, so they recalled them and put out the BC4000 series instead, but I havent seen any BC4000 cards around.
 
electric!sheep said:
he wants to knock himself out, he could try Windows Storage Server 2003 Express to go a notch above the normal NAS.
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Where can you get Storage Server Express. I looked at Microsoft's site, and they didn't mention it, and couldn't find anythign on the net.

Thanks.
 
doormat said:
Yea, I was looking at stuff....

Case: 100
Mobo+Proc: Free (I got a BD7 + P4 1.6a)
Raid Card: ??? (anywhere from 160 to 700)
GBe card: $50
PSes: $150
HDs: 3x250 to begin with, more as needed (I have 2 now)

The case Kyle was pimping on the front page was nice, had 2 spots for PSes and an adaptor for wiring the PS switces together.

RAID cards are still my biggest sticking point, $160 for a promise SX4 (4 sata ports), up to a $700 3ware 12x sata raid 5 card.

I was considering a raidcore card but I hearrd some ugly stuff abuot them at AVS forums.

Edit: Just did some more research and it turns out one of the chips on the Raidcore RC4000 series cards were defective, so they recalled them and put out the BC4000 series instead, but I havent seen any BC4000 cards around.
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well, if you're going to go the pedestal route, the case kyle was mentioning is good. would heartily recommend Zippy's (www.zippy.com) redundant power supplies.

My personal choice for raid cards (SATA/ATA) would be 3ware's Escalade series. I'm actually building a server right now using their 8512 Multi-lane SATA raid card...it's aweseome...only 3 cables running from the card to the SATA backplane...handles 12 channels..

in any case, you'll also need to make sure that you're using PCI-X or at least 64 bit PCI (66mhz) slots for these things since you'll need the bandwidth...133mb/s a second just won't cut it, especially if you're trying to move data over a Gbe connection.

cheers,

dave
 
Actually I'm only streaming 1-2 HDTV MPEG2 feeds, maybe a bunch of SD MPEG2 feeds too. I wont need more than 80Mbit/s.

The 3ware cards are ultra expensive. If the new raidcore cards come out reasonably priced and people dont have problems with them I'll get one of those for $400.
 
Id 2nd the Zippy recommendation in a general sort of way :p
I have a MR3-6450P

there is also quite few enterprise storage devices to be found on ebay
which would have the N+1 power, failover RAID and 99.9999 uptime requirements
they are often older SCSI RAID Externals that would require a host computer and HBA

I actually got several DotHill SANnets (3200\2200) generally for about $500 a peice
of course thats alot more power and heat to deal with (and space) than a ATA based unit
with one quarter the HDDs to power


Last I heard Windows Storage Server 2003
was only available bundled with an appliance
 
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