NAS with GigE and RAID

[shovenose]

Hi,
I need NAS with gigabit ethernet and capability for 4-6 SATA disks.
Must support at least some of the following RAID levels: 0,1,5,10
Thanks!

[shovenose]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

Nevermind, looks like I would need to spend like $600 for a pre-made NAS with these capabilities. Might just set up a small server for this

[joshnz]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

Nevermind, looks like I would need to spend like $600 for a pre-made NAS with these capabilities. Might just set up a small server for this

I found the same problem.
seems much cheaper to use a old pc.

[smason]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

Hmm, I just did one on an 6 year old desktop, for free. Mind you, the desktop only has 4 SATA ports, so it's limited, but it works great. Gig-E, RAID 1 5 6 or 10.

[Mad_Professor]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

I spent 3800 on my server.
$420 norco case 24 hot swap bays 8087 sas/sata backplanes
$199 supermicro board
2 or $3something on E3-1230 cpu
$120 16GB of ECC Kingston Ram,
$429 each for two LSI HBA 4 Port 8087 cards,
$169 each, eight 3TB drives
and a couple of other things. I moved the old corsair 750w and 6 1TB sammies, two WD RE 500GB, two seagate 1.5TB and a 2TB sammy from my old fileserver to the this new one.
I bought a USB 3.0 card for my mythtv usb tuners, and recently my first seagate cheetah 15K drive to fool around with, I was disappointed with it, since it's performance sucked ass according to other drives from WD and Hitachi. That's why it was a refurb on newegg and so damn cheap $54. I end up using it to migrate the O/S on the old maxtor pata drive.

I used my vacation pay and some money I had saved up for a road-trip that never happened. I finally paid it off last month. It was built in June 2012.

I'll be honest, I'm very proud of it and I treat it as my baby, you guys have your cars, I have my server.

[shovenose]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

Nice! Do you colo it or do you have it at your place?

[Mad_Professor]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

Nice! Do you colo it or do you have it at your place?

Chilling at my place.

It's my fileserver, mythtv/mysql/httpd, print server using CUPS, then running in KVM is pfsense router, personal web server, pxe boot server, and WSUS server.

[ant3202]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

Try synology.....
http://www.synology.com/products/pro..._name=DS412%2B

quite gd actually

[brethin]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

Running a old server for this is fine untill you need to move it (small and portable) then true NAS devices shine.
Gigabit Ethernet is a plus but only if the network you connect to has it as well as the machines on the network.
Raid is a total waste speed wise (Raid 0), and it is much cheaper to just backup the NAS than to a run a Raid 1 etc. Unless you are doing serious data backup for a real business like a bank etc just grab a single or dual drive drive Nas with 100Mbs and work from there.

[Uranium-235]

Re: NAS with GigE and RAID

get an old computer /w a gbie nic. Linux server /w MDADM raid (not in raid 5)

I have a poweredge 1800 that came with two 147 scsi drives and a PCI-X scsi raid controller /w ram and batt

Just replaced the two 5'1/2 bays with sata hot swaps and 1tb WD blacks in raid 1

have a gb switch and can download and upload shit sooo fast off that fucker

I also have a vtrak 15100 (bought from goodwill for $100 thinking it was a server). Not sure if i'll ever do anything with that fucker, I know it works. I even have the ext scsi cable and terminator. But its sata 150