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Western Digital or Seagate
halfelite:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 19, 2012, 05:08:35 PM ---360$ for a diskless station is kinda iffy :-\
btw, check this case if it can suit you [$49.99]COOLER MASTER Elite 361
dimensions: Width-5.9" x Height-14.4" x Length-18.2"
theres a maximum of 4 x 3.5" spaces for drive and one 5.25" that can be used for another drive, also if you use an M-ATX board you can occupy the 3 x expansion slots for drives as well. for a total of 8drives at least.
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The 350$ is the lowest model synology sales made strictly for home use. If you want more features faster speeds the price goes up. But they are solid units. I would say on the 350$ unit you are expecting speed of around 30MB/s where the DS1812+ which is 999$ will give you about 80MB/s With a whole lot more included ports for expansion and software addons.
but once you are up into the 8+bay systems I suggest building your own as a 16port areca card cost $980 so just becomes money worth wise to build your own then. Anything under 5 bay and no so tech savvy should go pre built.
kitamesume:
^ if i were to pick one then i'd pick one that can saturate my 100mbps router, which is 12.5MB/s :-\ so yea the 30MB/s would be plenty, heck too much even.
btw, i don't see much reason getting over 3TB of drive space for anime storage, i've only used up 1.9TB so far and im running out of animes to download =/ still got 0.4TB of space to go before i start clearing up duplicates.
oh and what i got:
1x internal 1TB (less than a year old animes)
2x internal 500GB (os and game drives)
1x external 1TB (old animes)
1x external 500GB (game backup)
atm i'm planning on buying a sound card first, then maybe four 1TB drives for raid5 later, that is if i'll need to.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 19, 2012, 05:19:58 PM ---^ if i were to pick one then i'd pick one that can saturate my 100mbps router, which is 12.5MB/s :-\ so yea the 30MB/s would be plenty, heck too much even.
btw, i don't see much reason getting over 3TB of drive space for anime storage, i've only used up 1.9TB so far and im running out of animes to download =/ still got 0.4TB of space to go before i start clearing up duplicates.
oh and what i got:
1x internal 1TB (less than a year old animes)
2x internal 500GB (os and game drives)
1x external 1TB (old animes)
1x external 500GB (game backup)
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Most people that are going to run a NAS are going to store more then just anime. I have nettop as my desktop with 350gb drive, then I have a my main NAS unit running a ARC-1261ML running 16x2tb anime only takes up about 1.8TB, But every bluray movie we buy we store on the server to be accessed in any room with a tv. And each one of them is close to 20-45GB, Plus its also the whole house DVR so all tv shows are stored on it also. Plus music.
But i agree if he just want anime storage 3tb external would be cheapest and plenty of space. If he thinks he is going to need more space go NAS while you can.
Dhruv:
--- Quote from: halfelite on July 19, 2012, 05:29:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: kitamesume on July 19, 2012, 05:19:58 PM ---^ if i were to pick one then i'd pick one that can saturate my 100mbps router, which is 12.5MB/s :-\ so yea the 30MB/s would be plenty, heck too much even.
btw, i don't see much reason getting over 3TB of drive space for anime storage, i've only used up 1.9TB so far and im running out of animes to download =/ still got 0.4TB of space to go before i start clearing up duplicates.
oh and what i got:
1x internal 1TB (less than a year old animes)
2x internal 500GB (os and game drives)
1x external 1TB (old animes)
1x external 500GB (game backup)
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Most people that are going to run a NAS are going to store more then just anime. I have nettop as my desktop with 350gb drive, then I have a my main NAS unit running a ARC-1261ML running 16x2tb anime only takes up about 1.8TB, But every bluray movie we buy we store on the server to be accessed in any room with a tv. And each one of them is close to 20-45GB, Plus its also the whole house DVR so all tv shows are stored on it also. Plus music.
But i agree if he just want anime storage 3tb external would be cheapest and plenty of space. If he thinks he is going to need more space go NAS while you can.
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I guess you are wrong with that one :)
Anime does tend to take up a lot of space...
I bought a 2TB seagate and i have stored 50 series on it till now... over 1 TB of space is gone and i have like 300-400 series more to download... i usually download full HD with FLAC audio so you can pretty much imagine what kind of storage space i need.
i don't think even a 18TB NAS would hold that kind of a collection...
halfelite:
--- Quote from: Dhruv on July 19, 2012, 05:58:26 PM ---
I guess you are wrong with that one :)
Anime does tend to take up a lot of space...
I bought a 2TB seagate and i have stored 50 series on it till now... over 1 TB of space is gone and i have like 300-400 series more to download... i usually download full HD with FLAC audio so you can pretty much imagine what kind of storage space i need.
i don't think even a 18TB NAS would hold that kind of a collection...
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Average series being 15-20gb at 6TB will allow you to store 307 series at 20GB a piece and i think that is generous as i think most are around 15gb
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