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Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: kureshii on May 04, 2014, 11:47:46 AM ---Your NAS should only need one LAN port, so I don't think you need other addons. Unless it doesn't have enough SATA ports, then you may need some SATA controller cards.
[Edit] Just in case you were talking about SATA controllers, you should probably check to see taht the controller is supported under BSD (don't assume!). In general, Sil3124-based controllers have pretty good out-of-the-box support in both Linux and BSD, but you need to do your own research on specific products (because if anything breaks, you are the first line of defense and you had better know what went inside it...).
FreeNAS is BSD-based, so it shares some "heritage" with Linux. Other BSD-based OSes include OSX. You’re unlikely to find “independent different OSes” in consumer devices these days, almost all the new ones run some flavour of Linux.
Regarding that Silverstone case, keep in mind that it supports only ITX boards (i.e. nothing microATX or larger), and most ITX boards I know have up to 4 SATA ports. Some older ones (earlier-chipset boards) may have up to 6. So you’ll definitely need a SATA controller addon for 8 disks... and then where are you going to connect your system disk (if it isn't one of the 8)? And ITX boards only have one PCIe slot, so you can't use 2 controllers.
You're going to need a larger motherboard/case unless you're okay with those limitations (or with blowing your budget with a hardware RAID card that has more than 4 ports).
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I see. How about if I just used Windows 7 or 8 and used their Sharing feature? Isn't that considered similar to NAS?
kureshii:
That *is* how you do network shares in Windows, yes. FreeNAS essentially does the same thing; the utility (used by both BSD and Linux) is called "samba" and basically sets up network folder shares that can be seen by Windows devices.
kitamesume:
in general, freeNAS is a very light OS that'd work better as a dedicated NAS OS, you can indeed run windows based file server instead.
hey, if you don't mind a rackmount case, i think i found a really good one with 15bays
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007731%20600335417&IsNodeId=1&name=15
edit: you can also mount them like this on a wall.
if a wall mount is not an option, i think i saw a vertical mount with wheels but i'm not sure whats that called.
Tatsujin:
^ Hmmm I'm gonna stay away from that. I don't understand how you would configure that because it doesn't take a motherboard.
So how's my set up so far? Because I would take it that it's good. I'll also go with Windows 7 64-bit cu'z that's more reliable (at least I think). I'm going to install and boot it from a USB stick.
So now comes down to the big question ... the router. So I think my router does about 100mbits which is essentially about 12.5 mbytes. That's like, freaking slow and I won't be able to watch anime through it. In other words, I do have to purchase a router with gigabyte ethernets to support what I need. Am I on track so far? 1Gbits would equal to about 125 mbytes. If yes, then I'll be getting this Linksys router.
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 04, 2014, 01:45:07 PM ---^ Hmmm I'm gonna stay away from that. I don't understand how you would configure that because it doesn't take a motherboard.
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what? i don't understand your logic.
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 04, 2014, 01:45:07 PM ---So now comes down to the big question ... the router. So I think my router does about 100mbits which is essentially about 12.5 mbytes. That's like, freaking slow and I won't be able to watch anime through it. In other words, I do have to purchase a router with gigabyte ethernets to support what I need.
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http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/fast-internet-connection-for-streaming-hd-movies1.htm
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