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Western Digital or Seagate
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 19, 2012, 12:07:56 PM ---thats why building one yourself saves you the money imho, you told me you could grab 1TB/70$ that would mean a (4x3TB)12TB array would cost about 840$ plus 240$ for the main PC that'll house the thing.
which would then sum up for a 1,080$ 12TB NAS box capable of being an HTPC, or roughly 965$ for a torrent-NAS rig using an zacate E240 motherboard kit.
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* Dhruv HeaddesksThis is going WAYYYY out of budget... i talked about $800... but this is going over $1100 like this...not affordable at all for me atleast right now
And yes i did say $70/TB but it will get lower since the which i quoted was from 3TB WD My Book Essentials
i'd say it will go down to $65 if i buy 4 HDD of 3TB each without any outside casing that is.
kitamesume:
^ 1TB/70$ @ 2x3TB = 420$
420$ + 240$ = 660$ 6TB HTPC-NAS unit
420$ + 125$ = 545$ 6TB torrent-NAS unit
you could always add more HDDs later on.
theres also an option of using your main PC as the NAS which would cut the costs, most likely upgrades on PSU and case will be the only required items, that is if you had enough SATA ports open, if not then you'll need a SATA card as well.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 19, 2012, 03:57:55 PM ---^ 1TB/70$ @ 2x3TB = 420$
420$ + 240$ = 660$ 6TB HTPC-NAS unit
420$ + 125$ = 545$ 6TB torrent-NAS unit
you could always add more HDDs later on.
theres also an option of using your main PC as the NAS which would cut the costs, most likely upgrades on PSU and case will be the only required items, that is if you had enough SATA ports open, if not then you'll need a SATA card as well.
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Yeah this is much better and within my budget :P
What is the difference between Torrent-NAS unit and HTPC-NAS unit?
And yeah 6TB would take me atleast 1.5 yrs to fill so by that time i'd have more money ;)
But i'll buy a bigger casing/exterior so that i leave some empty slots initially that can be filled up later
And i use a Laptop but it has a eSATA port... dunno about SATA ports though... it doesn't have a USB 3.0 port either
halfelite:
You dont sound to technical if you want a nas go with synology. you can get a 4bay for 350$ or less + price of the drives or something like the DS1512+ which is a 5 bay expandable to 15 but it starting price is 800$ plus however many drives. One good thing about synology is you dont need the same size drives. It will let you mix and match. So you dont need 4x3tb drives. you can mix 2x1tb with 2x3tb and it will give you all the space usable even in raid 5 mode. And when you run out of space you just pop a drive in and it will expand for you. if you run out of slots you can replace drives with larger ones just by sliding it out.
Synology is very well built and easy to use. I would pick it over the overpriced DROBO's, and the Qnap system is not as user friendly.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: halfelite on July 19, 2012, 04:47:11 PM ---You dont sound to technical if you want a nas go with synology. you can get a 4bay for 350$ or less or something like the DS1512+ which is a 5 bay expandable to 15. One good thing about synology is you dont need the same size drives. It will let you mix and match. So you dont need 5 3tb drives. you can mix 2x1tb with 2x3tb and it will give you all the space usable even in raid 5 mode.
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Yup you got that right i am not at all technical.
so synology you mentioned for $350... does it have any disks or is it a diskless system?
and how do you expand it? i can't picture it?
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