2012-03-15, 16:00
For those of you that were putting up with me while I was setting up an NAS I thought I would update you.
I ended up with a Synology Diskstation with 5 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives and I couldn't be happier. No worrying about remote access (OS is entirely web based) and no days on end prepping of drives like unRAID, not to say there's anything wrong with unRAID. I also didn't have to sit at a command window and spend a whole night entering commands just to set it up. Once I had the drive in, it was basically up and running without any extra work from me. It prepped the RAID and then did a verify which I let go overnight (about 8-10 hours if I recall).
I ran a CAT6 cable into the basement and hid the diskstation away and connected it to a UPS. It quietly does it's job in spectacular fashion. Easy access to all my media in SMB and performance is excellent. I have it set to email me if any drives report errors or anything. If one goes bad, I just slip another one in.
While maybe not the best option for those on a budget, I can't think of a better way for me to safely store and serve my media throughout my home.
I now have an extra tower and 5 3TB "green" drives that I may use to play around with FreeNAS and ZFS.
I ended up with a Synology Diskstation with 5 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives and I couldn't be happier. No worrying about remote access (OS is entirely web based) and no days on end prepping of drives like unRAID, not to say there's anything wrong with unRAID. I also didn't have to sit at a command window and spend a whole night entering commands just to set it up. Once I had the drive in, it was basically up and running without any extra work from me. It prepped the RAID and then did a verify which I let go overnight (about 8-10 hours if I recall).
I ran a CAT6 cable into the basement and hid the diskstation away and connected it to a UPS. It quietly does it's job in spectacular fashion. Easy access to all my media in SMB and performance is excellent. I have it set to email me if any drives report errors or anything. If one goes bad, I just slip another one in.
While maybe not the best option for those on a budget, I can't think of a better way for me to safely store and serve my media throughout my home.
I now have an extra tower and 5 3TB "green" drives that I may use to play around with FreeNAS and ZFS.
