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POLO

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So I have a NAS in a tower case right now and hate its large size and wasted space.

I found this some time back:
http://www.mashie.org/casemods/udat2.html

This is exactly what I want to build and have found the necessary pieces for it, but not all of them for the price I want.
Many thanks to: "Danny Bui" for the following links:

@ POLO
You mean ITX, right? If you're still looking for an ITX mobo, I recommend checking out this link:
http://clubit.com/product_browse.cfm...All in One

@ infect0
What are you planning to do with this SFF PC? Gaming? HTPC? General work?

@ POLO and infect0
A good but cheap SFF case would be this:
Ultra Microfly mATX Case - $55: http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=304&products_id=4647

And if you need a PSU, these are pretty decent budget choices:
Silverstone ST400 400W PSU - $47
XClio Stablepower 460W PSU - $52
Click to expand...

The only problem now is finding a reasonably priced: 5-bay hot-swap mobile S-ATA HDD rack

I have searched and searched (mostly last year right before Christmas :) ) but could not find anything i liked. I need SATA

Any information would be greatly appreciated, or more links about little NAS to build.

Thanks,
 
Sorry about not giving my price range, but $100 is somewhat reasonable but I could of sworn they where more then that when I searched last year... my bad.

The Athena Power BP 5-Bay Hot-Swap looks to be the best one.
Thank you for the help cyberdeity

Has anyone built a small NAS like I am describing?
I would love to see some pictures!

Thanks again,
 
Yeah the Athena one is the better choice, at least from what I can tell from my readings in the Disk Storage subforum.

Oh and thank you for showing Project Udat. I was thinking of doing something similar but as an external drive, rather than a NAS
 
I have a dedicated box right now in a tower case, but as stated before just want to upgrade to something better and less space. Also I don't need it to be a dedicated box it was just the cheapest way when i built it 3-4 years ago.

Sepron64 CPU with a PNY RAID Card (not the best but it is was the best price for a driverless card I could find)

Taking a more serious look now I did find this:
Thecus N3200 at Newegg for $340.99
OR
Thecus N4100+ at Newegg for $389.99

The N4100 didn't get a great review, but I good not find any good review for either the N3200 or the N4100+
I guess I am googleing the wrong phrase? But now that Thecus's prices have dropped and new models out, I am also considering it instead of building one.
Plus I can get a nice web based GUI... Because I have a KVM switch right now to see the status of my current NAS, which I could maybe upgrade but don't know how (willing to learn though - I have installed custom mediaWikis so it couldn't be much harder?)

Thanks again for all your help,
 
You might want to do a little searching around the Disk Storage forum. I do see threads asking for NAS recommendations from time to time. You might find something there.
 
If you're just building a Nas, you really don't need a full system.

I would look at multi-bay storage enclosures.
www.tecvine.com

And look at network attach bridgeboards.
www.datoptic.com

Or you can find cheaper SATA bridgeboards and then use an external sata-usb adaptor in combination with a router that takes usb storage...

There are many ways to do this cheap.
 
I was looking for more of a all in one NAS. This is just my personal preference on this.

I want just a Ethernet and Power cord giong to my NAS - and don't want it any larger then my SilverStone SG02 :)

Thank you for the helpful links though, I did look into them and they did looking interesting!
 
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