BEST NAS FOR HOME USE 2015 INSTALL
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I will just stream to that unit which I want to build with a HTPC case and something like a 780G MB and 1 small quiet drive. I agree with you with the tack you have taken with HTPC - quiet. However, my furnace in the basement does not mind the noise and the rest of us in the house hear nothing. There are 2 fans so it is OK in terms of how quiet it is. So I was forced to look for a stand alone unit. Sxotty, I looked at the unit you pointed out but my case precluded me using it. I never would have dreamed of wanting to build a drive farm before but I can see a lot more uses now.

I have 200-300 dvd's that I would like to rip and place on my server to use with a separate HTPC box. I like the concept a lot and have now discovered a variety of uses for common storage. However if I was to rebuild a new server, I would look at the boxes designed for hot-swappable drives. My separate box for the drives was because I did not want to replace my new Server box which was a small form box. It took me a long time to find something like that on internet.

BEST NAS FOR HOME USE 2015 INSTALL

I run Vista64 and I did not even have to install with CD provided as it booted up first time. I have my eyes on 2nd one in future if it is required. Its really really small and cute and really is flexible in that you can expand and its hot swappable. (waiting for corruption bug fix to be released and 1GB drives to drop in price). I have 2 500GB drives in ther now and have spots for 3 more drives which are targeted as 1GB ones. So it just can be moved to a newer computer if required. comes with everything needed including a special card to link it to your existing computer. I found this.Ī hot swappable case for SATA drives. This solution is excellent even if you do not built a NAS/server but add to your HTPC. SO I did search for a solution for my perdicament. I suspect the 2 drives you talk about may soon not be enough as you discover how nice it is to have common storage. The case I had was too small and did not really help to let me expand storage. But then I had grandiose plans - rip dvd collection to HTPC (not built yet). Worked great (not withstanding a corruption bug which did not affect me but is about to be fixed by Microsoft and is in testing). I started with a small case AMD/IGP setup and had 3 hard drives for about 2TB storage. I Purchased an OEM copy of Microsoft's Home Server and built a low power small server to allow automated backup of all my families and my business computer (home office). Went beyond NAS as I had other thoughts for future. I have 5 computers networked throughout my house. I decided on building a server for my home. Here is my experience as some of my work might be applicable.

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Perhaps this is all foolish and instead I should upgrade my HTPC to act as a NAS, but from what I understood before file transfers will actually be slower like that. It would be very handy for me to have all my files and media in one location since I have multiple computers I work on.Īlso is there any temperature sensitivity to these things? Do they keep themselves warm if it is cold or will the FDB in the HDD get to thick and ruin the HDDs if it is cold? There is the ZyXEL NSA-220.Īnyway if anyone has suggestions I would like to hear them. I can by drives that are quiet, but the actual enclosure I don't know about. I have read a few reviews that suggest some are very noisy the fans are crap in them apparently.

I want a NAS for SATA drives, preferable to have two drives so I can do RAID 1. Anybody have any personal experience/suggestions?

Best nas for home use 2015