Good low-cost NAS with resilience (RAID5 ?)
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2011-12-16, 10:30 AM
Lao Pan Wrote:[HTML I shoved the smaller system drive up there to free up all the front accessible slots. The snag is it is out of the airstream and runs hotter than the others (but not too hot).
2011-12-16, 11:59 AM
another HP Microserver owner here - mine is used exclusively as a NPVR TV server. great system for a great price.
2011-12-19, 10:39 PM
martint123 Wrote:I got one of the HP microservers with £100 cashback - like these http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant...m=products It looks like the cashback offer is still on.Does anyone know if one of these would run SBS2003 ?
2011-12-19, 10:52 PM
Do any of these allow non-destructive storage expansion similar to a Drobo? (http://www.drobo.com)
I have a Gen 2 Drobo, and while the initial firmware was crap, the latest is quite good. They are a bit pricey, but I've steadily upgraded mine to larger and larger drives and haven't lost a thing. I'm always on the lookout for better/cooler tech, so I'm very interested in following this thread.
2011-12-20, 12:55 AM
I've just added DriveBender to my WHS 2011 machine, currently with 4 x 2Tb drives and 1 x 1.5Tb.
Runs on most versions of windows, allows disparate drives sizes and allows folder duplication. May be a good option as well. One thing of note is I don't know what it would be like to use it as the recording drive - especially if duplication is turned on. But essentialy presents all your drives as a JBOD, but with the added bonus of duplication at a folder level to protection of content (also all drives stay as NTFS and so the content is accessible in other systems (unlike raid)
2011-12-20, 04:48 PM
Quote:Does anyone know if one of these would run SBS2003 ? I would think this is exactly what HP designed these for. Quote:Do any of these allow non-destructive storage expansion similar to a Drobo? In unraid the biggest drive is used as a parity drive (Keeps a record of the sum of every byte on all the other drives - over 20 drives on the premium OS - So if one drive dies it can be replaced and the contents restored). If you want to replace a storage drive with a bigger one you just swap them out and wait for the parity drive to rebuild your previous data. There is a reiser file system driver available for windows so it is possible to recover data from a disk by putting it in a windows machine. http://www.avforums.com/forums/networkin...d-nas.html - Nice detailed (Very) article here about building an unraid microserver - helped me imensly when building mine 
It's not an overly complicated system - it's more - overly simple operatives
2011-12-21, 06:27 PM
martint123 Wrote:I got one of the HP microservers with £100 cashback - like these http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant...m=products It looks like the cashback offer is still on.Well, I ordered one last night at about quarter to six (with free next day delivery) - it arrived first thing this morning...
2011-12-24, 11:25 AM
ACTCMS Wrote:Well, I ordered one last night at about quarter to six (with free next day delivery) - it arrived first thing this morning... I have noticed they are much better now they seem to have changed couriers..... The only downside I have noticed with them (well two really) is (1) a pain in the rear to add more memory (getting at it) and (2) although quiet, the fan is noticeable and the connector is not to PC standards for PWM fans. Out on the web are instruction on which wires to swap to take a whisper quiet PC compatible fan. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1193-page7.html
2011-12-24, 01:12 PM
martint123 Wrote:The only downside I have noticed with them (well two really) isI'm planning to stick it up in the attic, so a bit of noise is not a problem...
2011-12-28, 04:55 PM
I built my own NAS back when you could get the 2TB drives for $80 over the summer. There is free software called FreeNAS that is based on FreeBSD and it installs to a 1gb USB thumb drive for your boot disk. Then use its web interface to set up all the storage
drives and users. I put in 4 WD green 2TB drives to get 6GB of usable space after setting up RAID. The hardest part was finding the cheapest decent motherboard that had 4 SATA ports. You could get away with using older hardware, but I wouldn't skimp too much. I would have just used an Atom to keep it low power but it's hard to find a cheap board with the 4 sata ports. I think I ended up using one of the newer low-end Celerons. Check it out at FreeNas.org |
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