NAS Suggestions ?

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neoice

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Im looking for a Good Quality NAS option that dosent break the bank, are there any decent ones out there. I have located a few and looks the HP NAS has alot of good options etc, but i havent had alot of luck finding anything out on there GUI system. Most are saying its all telnet/dos based?

Thanks

Sorry if this has been discussed couldnt find anything in the search option , either that or i was looking/using it properly
 
decent and that doesn't break the bank i would go with an old pc...sure it will eat more juice but beside a few high end one i never found one that was decent. ymmv
 
DIY using WHATEVER parts you want to within budget (new or old) and whatever OS you want. I use server 2003, but played with WHS, freenas, unraid, openfiler and solaris (because of z-raid/zfs filesystem)

Really the above OS recommendations depend on if you plan on adding drives in the future or not and if you are planning on using hardware or software raid. Some cant expand arrays and others can very easily.

If not that and you want a nas where you only have to add the drives i would recommend looking at this review:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30482/75/

Small net builder also has nas charts for the nas devices they reviewed.

I got done building a server using the dell perc 5 card that has a couple hreads about it. Throughput is very good and I don't have anything else on my network that can actually tax the array. That being said, it seems to have an artifical bottleneck of 300mb/sec (as seen on one of those threads).

Do you even want redundancy, or just a drive connected to the network? What is your price range? Some people have spent THOUSANDS on their systems used for storage and apparently haven't broken the bank yet.
 
^^ Looking for something in the 2TB-3TB Range or thereabouts. Im in the Process and almost done with a HTPC setup. Next is the New TV, and then the NAS/File server setup as i want the mass Storage to stream from.

I would say the budget would have to depend on the setup i go with, maybe be little bigger budget if i went with a simple 2003 File server setup with Multiple 500GB-750GB drives etc.

So i would say in the $500-$700 Range , that said the end process is about 2-3 mos away. Just planning for it now.
 
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