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Freedom Kira:
I'd say it's probably best to build your own NAS... That's what I did, and I was deciding between doing that and buying Intel's 4-bay NAS for ~$280 that had an integrated Celeron.

I went with building it myself because that way I'd get the most flexibility. You can build it and have it run Linux (mine runs Ubuntu), and whatever client you want (I use KTorrent) that will run on the OS you choose.

In the end, the custom build cost less than $350 (Intel Atom integrated into a board, RAID card, 1GB DDR2, 500GB boot drive, case with included PSU) excluding the four 1.5TB hard drives I threw in. They run in RAID 5. I never thought the D-Link NAS builds were ever worth it - 2-bay empty NAS for ~$350 or 4-bay for ~$650 just weren't worth it.

Good way to learn Linux too. I was pretty new to it at the time, only having worked briefly with Linux machines before, and being almost a complete n00b.

If you were to ever buy a pre-built NAS, go for Drobo. It's the only one that's really worth the money because of its features. But be warned, it's quite expensive.

kohyewchuan:
thanks for the advice on the Atom machine. since can put Windows and run utorrent on that build and within my budget, it is the perfect solution. As for RAID, I probably will skip that for now cuz I need something small to help do the seeding. I'm not good with linux but I can work around using Windows. Now I'll just need to find all the parts to build a Torrent + media server rig. BTW, RAID 5 (best reliability) is good but the most I'll go is a RAID 2 (mirroring) setup 1st since I'm a total newbie on RAID (studied on it but never tried it :P)

Just need some clarification. If run 2 utorrent clients at the same time with my account on the same network (home network), I should only have one doing seeding on a different torrent (the Atom PC) while doing downloading on the other one (old PC) right? Since both PC are on the same network (2 separate LAN IPs) but same WAN IP, will I get banned? A member posted a similar situation but he uses 2 different WAN IP (one PC at home and one NAS at another place) in his case which works fine.

Xiong Chiamiov:
Just don't have the same torrent active on more than one computer at a time.

RAID 5's not the most reliable, but it's popular because it provides fairly decent reliability without needing more than one extra disk.

Freedom Kira:

--- Quote from: kohyewchuan on December 08, 2010, 04:27:27 PM ---thanks for the advice on the Atom machine. since can put Windows and run utorrent on that build and within my budget, it is the perfect solution. As for RAID, I probably will skip that for now cuz I need something small to help do the seeding. I'm not good with linux but I can work around using Windows. Now I'll just need to find all the parts to build a Torrent + media server rig. BTW, RAID 5 (best reliability) is good but the most I'll go is a RAID 2 (mirroring) setup 1st since I'm a total newbie on RAID (studied on it but never tried it :P)

Just need some clarification. If run 2 utorrent clients at the same time with my account on the same network (home network), I should only have one doing seeding on a different torrent (the Atom PC) while doing downloading on the other one (old PC) right? Since both PC are on the same network (2 separate LAN IPs) but same WAN IP, will I get banned? A member posted a similar situation but he uses 2 different WAN IP (one PC at home and one NAS at another place) in his case which works fine.

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Oh, funny, you started this thread too, meaning I already mentioned the Atom to you more than a month ago, guess you just never paid attention to that.

Anyway, yeah, what Xiong said. So go ahead and download on one and seed on another, just make sure you remove the torrent from one before you add it to the other. If you're worried about tracker update delays, waiting 15 min is plenty, but most people say that you don't have to wait at all.

And by RAID 2 I think you mean RAID 1, which is more or less the same as RAID 5 with a two-disk setup. And FYI RAID 6 is more reliable than RAID 5 because it can stand up to two drive failures but requires sacrificing two drives worth of space, meaning it's kinda pointless unless you use more than four drives.

kohyewchuan:
Thanks and sorry for typo error cuz I tend to type the wrong characters where the keys are near each other. Anyways, RAID 1 is sufficient for me to do torrenting cuz have the resources to buy a new HDD easily for replacement and doing data recovery.

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