On the subject of home servers, if someone wants to make an offer on a serious NAS -> QNAP TS-879 PRO with 24TB (8x3TB Seagate Constellation SATA3 drives), little “r” ping me back.
https://www.qnap.com/i/au/product/model.php?II=15 Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com<http://www.sqldownunder.com/> From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Saturday, 25 July 2015 12:05 PM To: ozDotNet <ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com> Subject: Re: [OT] home server I went for the 5 bay one the upgraded to an 8 bay. The 5 was then moved to our office and is our file server there. Love the cloud sync it means we can access Dropbox files without having to have the drive space on office laptops. The files sit on the nas and just share the folder. Forget the model number off the top of my head but it's the ones you can expand with a second bay doubling the number of bays. On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 at 6:24 am, Dave Walker <rangitat...@gmail.com<mailto:rangitat...@gmail.com>> wrote: Yeah I'm looking at synology as well. Any recommendations? I was looking at a https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS415play with 2 3tb red drives for now. On 25 Jul 2015 09:44, "Stephen Price" <step...@perthprojects.com<mailto:step...@perthprojects.com>> wrote: Synology NAS. Any model, choose based on your storage needs. Does all your file sharing, media stuff etc. I even got Crashplan running on it It's brilliant On Fri, Jul 24, 2015, 2:51 PM ILT <il.tho...@outlook.com<mailto:il.tho...@outlook.com>> wrote: I’d appreciate some advice, from those who dabble in this area (home networking, media server). As Windows 10 RTM approaches, I’ve been thinking of replacing my aged home network, based on a nice little HP Proliant Microserver N36L with 8Gb RAM running the defunct Windows Home Server 2011. I’m not sure I need the capability of Windows Server Essentials. Maybe Windows 8 or 10 would do the job? Currently the HP is not even serving media, being used as file storage and not using its RAID capability. But with larger storage at good prices these days (eg, WD Red or Black 3Tb at the best price-point), should I be using storage spaces on a newer OS? I’d like to also use it as a media server, not sure what Windows 8 or Server Essentials would offer. Thanks ________________________________ Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria