Bought my first NAS! :D

Discussion in 'Network questions and troubleshooting' started by dcx_badass, Mar 2, 2011.

  1. sovietdoc

    sovietdoc Guest

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    One of my friends wants a very fast external storage unit to work with his HD content. So we're talking about multi-gigabyte transfer to and from his PC.

    NAS is a good idea but the max transfer rate over gigabit is gonna be what 120megs/s?


    I wonder if there are usb3 RAID 0 boxes where you can hook up 4 hdd's and get like 300 megs a second transfer.


    He is too cheap for ssd's and he need large capacity anyways.

    Guys got any thoughts?
     
  2. aircool

    aircool Don Aircooleone Staff Member

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    100mb/s is plenty fast enough tbh.

    Just make sure your network can deliver it at that speed.

    If you want ultimate speed just buy a bigger case and a beast of a RAID card?
     
  3. ROBSCIX

    ROBSCIX Ancient Guru

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    @Soviet, what about using an eSata enclosure?
    This should get you really good speeds.
     
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    Finchwizard Don Apple

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    Try get two USB3 enclosures to keep up with my 16TB of space @ 100-120MB/sec.

    Who's the idiot now ;)
     

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    I originally bought a pre-built NAS from Buffalo, and last year decided it was time to build a custom box and have never looked back. Currently only have 4TB of data, but the thing is I can upgrade whenever I want.

    Transfer rates went from a slow crawl with the Buffalo Linkstation to completely saturating my gigabit connection with my custom box.

    If hard drive prices weren't so high, i'd definitely recommend building your own and using an OS like FreeNAS or just using W7 if you prefer.
     
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    You'll have to forgive me because i'm not familiar with the brand, BUT it seems to have all the functionality that you would need. I believe with USB3.0 you're capable of 400MB/s, so speed would be limited by the Hard drives and not the unit itself, which is a good thing. Maybe someone else is more familiar with this brand.
     
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    Because my two desktops, netbook, two laptops, ipod touch and android tablet can all access a NAS/server at once, an external hard drive can't.
     
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    Need moar servers.

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  10. TirolokoRD

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    Dammm.....what are you building!?
     

  11. dcx_badass

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    Nothing... I just really like servers...

    Nah I got one then I bought another because it was cheap (but I never even used it yet and got it in November). Then my dad wanted one, so he got one as well.
     
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    I was wondering, what would be the actual difference between a multiple bay enclosure HD vs a NAS server, despite the obvious (RAID and speed)
     

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