Thread: Network Attached Storage (NAS)

It's cool that he DIYed it, and it's certainly budget but woodships as seperators on 20 drives? what happens if a drive fails? Also, 300W is cutting it slightly slim for 20 drives. Did he use Green-drives or normal ones? As for the SATA Controller, I'm assuming it was a SATA RAID Controller, in which cas I can't see one with 20 slots selling for $500. And why would you got 10? If the rest of the PC is so cheap, the RAID-0 benefits are going to be severly reduced. If he just needs a fileserver that's secure he should've gone with RAID6, effectively doubling his storage space...

Multiple 300W PSU's using a ATX jumper
the raid card has 8 ports, but he used sas expanders, so the total theoretical drives that can be plugged in are 256.
I just checked with him, and i was wrong, he was going to go with raid 10, but because of the sas expanders he had to use two raid 5 arrays.

So I've ordered the QNAP DS-809 now, fcking expensive but I desperatly need the space and it looks to be a real powerhouse so hopefully it's worth the investment ^^ I'll let you guys now how it fares with respect to torrenting and media transcoding with encryption...

Nice choice... Are you going to fully populate it straight away (if so what size drives) or add drives as you go?

Originally Posted by TangoSeeder

Nice choice... Are you going to fully populate it straight away (if so what size drives) or add drives as you go?

2TB drives (16TB total), not sure whether RAID5 (14TB usable) or RAID6 (12TB usable) yet... Probably RAID5 though. It'd be a shame to lose 14TB, but the risk of that isn't high enough to justify sacrificing another 2TB to redundancy for the added safety. I'll just have to store a copy of truly important personal/work data on my desktop/work-pc (something that should be done regardless of the raid-level anyway :)