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kureshii:
--- 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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It does. It's just a computer case meant to be mounted in a rack. You do the same thing as you would with any computer case: install PSU, install motherboard, install HDDs, ...
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 04, 2014, 01:45:07 PM ---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.
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It’s not, just so you're informed. You’re going to run your NAS 24/7 I take it? Win7 may be more familiar for configuration, but I just want to dispel any notions of greater reliability that you may have.
And for the love of—don't run it from a USB stick. Especially not if you’re going to have pagefile.sys and other things on it. You’ve spent, what, hundreds on your storage disks, probably another few hundred on the CPU and mobo and case, and now you’re going to skimp out and run your NAS system from a USB stick?
Better to run with 7 storage disks and 1 system disk, than with 8 storage disks and a system stick.
--- 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. Am I on track so far? 1Gbits would equal to about 125 mbytes. If yes, then I'll be getting this Linksys router.
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Raw bluray bitrate is capped at 54 Mbit/s, Typical fansub encodes don’t usually exceed half of that. Peak bitrate isn't a concern for storage bandwidth since those are transient (that’s what caches are for). That works out to ... slightly above 3 MB/s. Your current router is definitely enough for watching movies stored on your NAS.
But if you're going to be doing huge file transfers often, I would still suggest getting the gigabit router if you have budget to spare. Just don't expect it to perform like a local disk (peak 100MB/s or so for a short while for some transfers, 10–60MB/s on average usually), especially if it’s using a Realtek/Marvell LAN chip. And definitely don’t try to carry out more than 1 file transfer at a time to/from it, lol.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: kureshii on May 04, 2014, 02:18:00 PM ---
--- 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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It does. It's just a computer case meant to be mounted in a rack. You do the same thing as you would with any computer case: install PSU, install motherboard, install HDDs, ...
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on May 04, 2014, 01:45:07 PM ---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.
--- End quote ---
It’s not, just so you're informed. You’re going to run your NAS 24/7 I take it? Win7 may be more familiar for configuration, but I just want to dispel any notions of greater reliability that you may have.
And for the love of—don't run it from a USB stick. Especially not if you’re going to have pagefile.sys and other things on it. You’ve spent, what, hundreds on your storage disks, probably another few hundred on the CPU and mobo and case, and now you’re going to skimp out and run your NAS system from a USB stick?
Better to run with 7 storage disks and 1 system disk, than with 8 storage disks and a system stick.
--- 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. Am I on track so far? 1Gbits would equal to about 125 mbytes. If yes, then I'll be getting this Linksys router.
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Raw bluray bitrate is capped at 54 Mbit/s, Typical fansub encodes don’t usually exceed half of that. Peak bitrate isn't a concern for storage bandwidth since those are transient (that’s what caches are for). That works out to ... slightly above 3 MB/s. Your current router is definitely enough for watching movies stored on your NAS.
But if you're going to be doing huge file transfers often, I would still suggest getting the gigabit router if you have budget to spare. Just don't expect it to perform like a local disk (peak 100MB/s or so for a short while for some transfers, 10–60MB/s on average usually), especially if it’s using a Realtek/Marvell LAN chip. And definitely don’t try to carry out more than 1 file transfer at a time to/from it, lol.
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D: .. two? I usually do two at any given time for transfers out/in for each driver.
And I see what you mean. Well ... hmm...
I would save myself about 70, 60, 75, 150 USD so about ... 355 USD on average if I just rebuilt my old case, the one with the DF-85. I still have that old motherboard P5D-N Asus and the Q9550 processor and the Corsair Gold PSU 750W. I mean, I know for sure the Q9550 is much faster then the processors we were talking about plus I really am not planning to use it at all.
I also have a factory sealed 10K RPM WD Raptor ... uh, 300GB driver. Or was it 150GB? I can use that for the OS.
The CPU needs a fan since the one inside is literally DYING, lol. I think I'm still going to get that Linksys from Amazon, it's 40 USD cheaper and like you said, I'm going to be transferring a lot of data so might as well do the big jump.
I'll still get the add-on card, or I think I'm gonna go for 5 or 6 connections cu'z the DF-85 has 9 bays, so that's one extra bay.
kitamesume:
i totally forgot to upload this pic.
halfelite:
what is your budget and I can tell you what to get. And i3 is even more then enough. I run my 24drive NAS off of a 4 year old core 2.
If you tell us your budget we can pick the specs you need. As I see freenas mentioned here a few times but no one has mentioned if you run freenas which is a great solution you should double your ram amount. Freenas is a ZFS solution so the more ram the better performance. you need a minimum of 8 gigs. cpu speed does not really matter until you have to resliver a drive but even then if you are reslivering you will not be using the system.
Just say how much space you want or are going to want remember you don't have to buy all the drives at the same time. You could even pop open your externals and use the drives out of them. and just expand as you go.
Also where do you live if you live in the US and want to pay shipping I have one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219030 just sitting around collecting dust it might even still have a board and psu not sure on them though that I would send to you for shipping cost.
kitamesume:
i think he did mention reusing his Q9550 for the NAS box.
although a haswell's pentiums can beat a core2quad with ease.
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