Save the money and build it yourself freenas is they way to go. I had a old Pentium 3 server running over a year with no downtime loaded it up with a few decent sized SCSI drives happy days, Current got a dell power edge 800 running comes with a SATA controller so loaded up a few decent sized drives the O/S runs from a flash disk all configurations are carried out through a web Gui the drives are currently in a Raid1 array and the system has been running for half a year no problems setting up samba shares is a piece of cake with this :)
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On 31 May 2012, at 11:39, "Rob Malpass" <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm looking for a NAS device / media server - need a recommendation please.
>
> 1) Needs to be able to store 4TB+ of data so presumably need at least 2 drive bays.
> 2) Needs to be on 24/7
>
> I was thinking (and this list has previously raved about) a HP microserver. However this gives me a dilemma. I have a PC I could resurrect at the cost of the drives (which I'd need for the microserver anyway) and the cost of a big PSU (big enough to run several hard drives in one box). Said cost would probably come out just under the £230 for a microserver.
>
> All of my previous NAS devices (Bufallo Linkstation, Netgear SLU, Netgear ReadyNAS) have all been devoted NAS units so this is the first time I'd ever be buying a "proper" server if I bought the HP thing. So I guess my question is - why not build a machine myself instead of the microserver? Quietness isn't much of an issue because it'll be in a room separate to the TV. Are there any other considerations here?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
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