[Discuss] 4-Bay NAS

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

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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