What are you doing for home NAS?

[jsf]

Good question Mark - I'm looking forward to see what responses it gets.

At work I recently had a conversation with a fellow at Winchester Data
Systems for work.. he sent me the information I'm quoting below - it was in
response to a query I had about getting some archival storage setup at work
but only a couple TB worth.

For *my* purposes he was recommending getting two systems but for your
needs you'll be find with one I reckon...

"check out http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822107116<https://owa.nyam.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=db4192872e674570b2904dcfc41ff014&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.newegg.com%2fProduct%2fProduct.aspx%3fItem%3dN82E16822107116>



That is an example of a low-end system that is “reasonable” (keep in mind,
WDS is high-end and blows this stuff away).  I cannot see the drive
compatibility list out here, but PLEASE do not get any SATA drives – SAS
only.  Run this in RAID mode.  BUY TWO OF THESE SYSTEMS, and say 10 drives
(4 for each system, and 2 on the shelf for sparing – all with the same rev
f/w level).  Keeping all the firmware on the drives the same is critical
over time (in 3-5 years, you will be glad you have these).



You should be able to get this up and running in a week, and in my mind,
you have duplicate copies on both servers.  Put one server on a subnet that
NO ONE can see – your on-line backup copy.  The other one is the primary
one for people to access."


Hope this info has some value.



J.




On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>wrote:

> I have a bit of end-of-the-year money that I'd like to spend and
> thinking of a dedicated NAS device for my home rather than having hard
> drives start spilling out of my basement server.  I figure I need about
> 4TB usable, so either 2x4TB or 4x2 or 3TB is a configuration I could
> work with.
>
> In looking at the products that are out there for standalone NAS,
> they're REALLY expensive even before adding the cost of drives.  The
> two-drive systems seem to be just barely adequate for my needs, and the
> four-bay ones jack the price up to just going BYO ($700-$800 without
> drives).  Even then, the Drobo a friend has puts its NFS server in
> userspace (WTF?) so performance and features like file locking are lacking.
>
> So I ask the question - what are you doing at home?  Build my own? Have
> any device that's still for sale you can recommend?  Anyone using
> FreeNAS and have suggestions?
>
> -Mark
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