How do i make a NAS? or should i just spend the $270 on this shit?

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If you`re moderately competent with Linux, just throw together a computer and create some Samba shares.
Avoid freeNAS unless you never want to do anything else with that computer.

This Just get a old computer and set it up with Samba in Linux and whatever other server utilities that you want.

no, never buy dedicated nas boxes like that, theyre overpriced as shit.

this, but if you're a linux scrub its super easy too install windows server 2012 r2, or hell, even w7 and just share the hds.

windows scrub*

if you need a just werks buying an expensive NAS is the best way to go.
you pay for the software of Synology and QNAP, not for the hardware.

Just make sure you install Gentoo on the box.

he found his way to g so i assume hes not clinically tech illiterate

Don't buy consumer trash
Build your own Nas and if you're planning on using FreeNas,
Check out the forums for recommended hardware
Pic related, it's my $480 craigslist find

Buy an HP microserver and build your own.

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I'm interested in a NAS too, but do I need to spend so much money?

I wanted to spend about 200 € for the device itself, but less would be perfect. It would be a fileserver for my movies. Only local network, and only one stream at a tim-

Buy a old computer and add harddisks to it.

Yes spend all of your money on a difficult to use power sucking NAS. Or just buy a Synology

this

bought a gen 8 microserver and shoved 4 3TB disks inside
the best thing ever

I thought about it, I have a Phenom 940 machine standing around. So I should get at least some i3 or ULV Core CPU. Unfortunately I have to pay for my electricity myself.

My plan is a RAID1 with 8 TB drives, 8 TB RAID1 until I max out the 8 TB and upgrade to 16 TB RAID1. I'm currently running a 4 TB desktop HDD internal for my movies but its almost full. Redundancy is very important, I don't want to loose anything, it takes me days and weeks to download high quality material with my 2 MBit connection.

Raid Z1 with 5x4TB here.

Loving FreeNAS so far

Raspberry Pi plus disks

how many disks can you add to a raspberry Pi?

> power sucking
the main power draw are the HDDs, and an Atom, Kabini, or any other low-power CPU is plenty for a NAS.

>all of your money
if you need to spend all your money for a DIY NAS, then you sure as hell can't afford a consumer NAS

>difficult to use
yes, this is true, if you consider installing FreeNAS, or setting up a Linux distro with mdadm+NFS/Samba to be difficult, then maybe buy a consumer product.

€200 should be enough, depending on the case you want.
I spent less than that for a Kabini-based system, board+CPU+RAM was

Up to 4

Really? How? With the USB port?

This.

I had a self built NAS but it is simply too much hassle. If there is one product i could recommend it is a synology NAS. The apps you get are also very userfriendly and usefull.

Honestly OP if you have to ask Sup Forums how to build a NAS then you're better of with a Synology.

You should build your own NAS out of a thinkpad - but not just any thinkpad, go for an older model made by IBM since that chinkshit is terrible. It's childs play for anyone to setup a nas with gentoo.

>gentoo
>laptop as NAS

This has to be the most terrible idea I have read in this thread so far. I love thinkpads but especially the old ones are slow as fuck and terribly energy inefficient.

And you are recommending gentoo to someone who obviously has no idea about building a NAS?

Youre trolling right?

get like mentioned
HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 you can get them even under 200(probably with no DVD drive but who need it ?)

Just bought a micro server gen 8 with a xeon e31220l and 8 gigs of ram (link related) for 142€
Did i do good and will it make a decent nas?

>Unfortunately I have to pay for my electricity myself.

so?
that shitty box idling will likely only draw 100-150 running watts 99.99% of its uptime.

of course he is trolling. He is just meming because Sup Forums loves gentoo and old IBM thinkpads

since OP mentioned €, the average electricity price in Europe is €0.2/kWh.

taking the lower value of 100W, 24h/day, 30d/month, at €0.2/kWh, equals €14 a month.

that's not nothing...

I'm in the process of setting up a NAS as well, and most likely I will set it up to auto-suspend and have my router auto-trigger an WoL packet when ARP packets are detected for that IP

>the average electricity price in Europe is €0.2/kWh.

Really? The average in Norway is half of that

but you guys have the natural resources to just power everything with hydro...

Norway has cheap hydro, plus Norway buys Danish wind power when it's dirt cheap because hydro is one of the only practical ways to store electricity.

You can use an old computer, but it will be louder, draw more power and generaly give you more little issues as time goes on.

If I were you I would invest a bit more in a good prebilt Synology and enjoy their great support and build quality.

what benefit is there to keep a NAS on all the time if you're going to be sleeping 6-10 hrs a day

Damn it, an empty MicroServer Gen8 G2020T/2GB costs 500 USD here.

True

I have mine set to use my VPN connections to torrent and seed shit. You can run all kinds of shit on their like DNS, IRC, HTTP and other servers.

Why stop at a NAS? Make a full on Linux box. SSHing into a Linux PC is preferable to running a VM when doing Linux stuff.

Synology is still loud since it uses fans to cool the HDDs, not to mention the HDDs themselves will be loud.

Not a problem if you stuff it somewhere in a server room of course.

The thing is sitting under my tv right in front of me and its silent. If you can hear the drives at all it just shows how quiet it is.

This is really the issue. Sure it's trivial to turn a big old box into a NAS but apart from the joy of doing so, all the advantages go to the commercial unit - power consumption, small footprint, looks etc.

I dont fault anyone for trying to build their own, I did, but after all the little issues like noise and heat it was nice to have a prebuilt.

I have the DS214Play and I literally can't hear it. Even so, it is childs play to replace the fans (for instance if you buy an older used model with a worn fan).

Mine is the DS716+, and I can distinctly hear both the fans and the HDDs making noises from at least a meter away.

Yeah okay, I guess the high end models make more noise. Isn't that the 7 bay version? Those aren't really meant to sit in a living room though.

The 1812 is an 8 bay.

Theres no real reason to stick it in a closet, it looks at home next to my headphone amp and cable box.

>spending money
>i3
>premade servers

Fucking cucks

I'm using this dumpster dell with 4 drives as a seedbox/nas and it have literally 3 years of uptime and had 0 issues, seeding 8000 fucking torrents on rtorrent

I was thinking about upgrading it to some 8€ chink xeon but its just not necessary, I can add 500gb of torrents to download at once and the shit will not crash and keep up with my 500/500 FTTH speed

And thats fine for you, some people have more requirements or higher standards.

Ye

Newer Raspberry Pi's have multiple USB ports. You could even connect a USB hub and have even more drives.

How many drives can I connect per USB port?

Nah, just 2-bay. You can plug in an expansion unit though.

Horrible idea, rpi's are terrible for a NAS, the network and usb share the same bus. It's a bottleneck and a pain in the ass if you move large files or use it as backup. They sd cards are also prone to failure and could leave you with a dead unit in some cases.

The only way around that is using USB drives on one side and using wifi to connect to your network then your transfer speed will be limited by the speed of the wifi link which will be awful too but not as much as if you use a network cable.

that sux, depends on the config the
Intel Celeron G1610T Ivy Bridge, RAM 4GB DDR3 cost around 200€+ the cheapest i saw was around 130€ with higher configuration the prise goes beyond 500€

What does it do? Why would I need one? Spoonfeed me pls

A NAS is basically a place to keep files so that you can have access to it from several devices. You can also use it for other server uses. like ftp-server, mailserver or to run some applications like seeding torrents or a IRC session so that you won't get logged off all the time and can just SSH into your server machine.

But a NAS is basically for storing files.

its a server you keep in you closet and is full of porn you can watch on your home network(or around the globe if you are rich)

Not sure why but I feel self conscious when you say that. Maybe its the fucking massive amount of JAVS I have.

>massive
>fapping to pixels
>not having literally all the uncensored japanese porn/hentai available online

Bitch pls

>NAS
>rpi
>USB drives
>wifi
just stop

Just let the retards play with their toys

Depending on sources being available forever is just asking for trouble. I mean I have shit downloaded you cant even find active torrents or direct downloads for anymore.

Its my craziness, but I collect porn I know will disappear when the uptight religious nutjiobs get their way.

What is the point if its only JAV, all the chinks look the same

Japanese exhibitionism and humiliation porn is lightyears ahead of anything else out there.

>exhibitionism and humiliation
What is the point if its so fake as their orgasms

you are not alone i store shitload of doujins and mangas(comics) if i had the server i wodl store my favorite jav and all that shit in one place

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Wait for Apollo Lake NAS

>calls that massive
>not even organized
I made my own indexer for the 8K+ JAV and western porn titles I have.

>just throw together a computer and create some Samba shares.
This, even if you are not competent with linux, figure it out.

I run it in the back ground on my computer and it just werks.

autism

what case is that?
Do you just have a shit tier computer inside?

All I want is an very small, underpowered machine that I can install my own OS on and can hot-swap 2 hard drives.

At this point I'm leaning towards a NUC and a 2-drive dock.

intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6cayh.html

>1x SATA port

I don't understand

He's using a USB3.0 external dock

Youre just jelly. Theres literally nothing wrong with the rpi. the usses are endless.

Return to reddit with your low level bait

both seem to have problems reading. I was telling the other anons why it's a terrible idea to use a raspberry pi as a NAS.

as much as I like it and use it for some stuff like pihole or a cheap ssh gateway, it's a terrible idea to use it as a NAS because of this
It's weird because you either see people dismissing it completely like the other retards I quoted or anons like yourself that think they can do anything with it. It's a case by case use and if you choose well it works just fine.

I have a similar setup and have tried various dock based setups and they all kinda suck. Especially if you're trying to copy from one drive to another within the same nas (backups, specifically).
I've thought about getting a drobo, but there's fucking expensive so now I'm eying one of the HP microservers. That looks like the best bet for me.
Thoughts?

if you can get a good price an HP microserver is cool because you can do a lot more but it isn't a low powered machine at all.

Its only one directory man, they don't even have the real titles. It goes from download > worth keeping > named for reference > final location with proper name off the library.

>Thoughts?
Use this and stop being retarded

>gen 8 microserver
I so want one of these as a hypervisor hosting firewall vm and other useful shit but the dual core only kills that idea. Otherwise how are expansion possibilities? Can it fit a few Ethernet cards?

were pieing for equality XD

>4 sata ports
right. I have 8 drives just for storage.

Retard

Nigger
There is a mPCIe slot and a PCIe 1x slot. You can but a 2x SATA port adapter card for the mPCIe slot and up to a 6x SATA port PCIe 1x adapter card. That's 12 SATA ports in total.
And that's not excluding an internal USB3.0 header-to-plug and putting USB3.0-to-SATA adapter for another 8 or more drives. Apply yourself, nigga.

I can get a used micro server for $200.
Go be a faggot somewhere else.

And where are you suposed to put that on that mobo? Shove it up your ass idiot?

Nigger, are you legit retarded?

If you have money, freenas
If you don't, open media vault

samba shares can be wonky and it's a bitch to set it up for web access to view and manage your content from anywhere. most Sup Forumsmen have an extra drive or two laying around and you can get a synology one bay inclosure for a little over a hundred bucks

you fucking idiot

Home NAS is a meme.
- They are expensive
- Consumer models have shitty proprietary software. E.g. you cant trust their encryption.
- DIY NAS will require lots of time to set up and maintain.
- They are slow. 1Gbit ethernet with smb/nfs will limit your speed to the level of slowest 2.5 inch laptop drives.
- 10Gbit is expensive as fuck, and have lots of compatibility issues.

Just put your drives into your desktop ans set up a network share. If you have more than 4 disks and want some kind of software raid6 use refsv2 on windows srv 16, or openzfs on mac&linux.

>DIY NAS will require lots of time to set up and maintain.
it took me less than an hour to setup an old system with linux and samba (and im a linux noob) and i didnt have to touch that fucker for over 3 years

its callded an old PC 4 tb of old HDDs and FTP

also
>They are slow.
i streamed 1080p movies on 100Mbit LAN
>They are expensive
use an old system you tard, even an old pentium shitbox works fine

you pretty much have no fucking clue about this subject, please fuck off

everyone says it's dead easy, but I could never wrap my head around getting samba to work right

>AM1 motherboard
>AM1 quad-core APU
Best and cheapest NAS starting point
Prove me wrong