[Discuss] 4-Bay NAS

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

In my robot, I used an Intel D510M0 Atom Mini-ITX motherboard, it has gig
ethernet and 64 bit/dual core cpu. (You'd probably need to pick up a SATA
card for more drives.) It was less than $80!! A case with power supply,
these days, is about $60. RAM is probably $20. So DIY "NAS" box would cost
about $160 total for the base. Most Linux distros come, out of the box,
with all the features of any NAS package you'd buy.

This is what I'm eventually going to do.


> I have a dlink DNS-321, its a two bay box. I've had it for a while, and
> I've come to the conclusion that isn't what I want/need. First of all, its
> NFS and Samba. I have a gig ethernet and its slow. USB is useless unless
> you have USB 3.0.
>
> When you look at the cost of NAS boxes w/o disks, you can probably get a
> goodly powerful motherboard and bare bones system with CPU and ram for
> less.
>
> Once that's done, you have everything that would be in your NAS appliance,
> but so much more.
>
>> I'm shortly going to be in the market for a 4-bay NAS box for my home
>> storage.
>>
>> I don't need CPU horsepower.  This will be pure file service.  Any
>> computing needs will continue to be supported by my Mac minis.
>>
>> I do want capacity, thus the desire for a 4-bay unit.  I want populate
>> it
>> with 4x2TB configured as RAID 5 and I can populate it myself after the
>> fact.  It can ship empty or with a single drive that I can reconfigure
>> myself after the fact unless I can get a good price on a fully populated
>> chassis.
>>
>> Quiet operation is required although silent operation isn't a necessity.
>>
>> So I ask, what out there is going to fit the bill without breaking the
>> bank?
>>
>> --Rich P.
>>
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