Thinking ahead a bit...assuming hard drive prices return to normal after
the flood waters recede and the country has time to stabilize....
I'm trying to understand what the advantages of a formal NAS box (like a
Snyology 5-bay diskstation) is over a low-end PC for movie serving? The
discless version of this thing is $800+ and the 5TB (a mere 5TB?) is
$1400+. What's up with that?
I don't consider movies backed up to hard drive to be critical, so I
personally don't see the need for raid etc. to recover lost drives,
which is why I'm just using Win7 homegroup without any kind of
sophistication. But I see a lot of people talking about using a NAS box
like this for the same purposes I'm after (movie/music serving) in my
house. I'm sure I can build up a cheap PC for way less.
While on the topic...my movie server only has slots for two more HDs
(one is coming). I'd rather not add a second PC...it would be nice to
have a box that holds an array of drives and serves them up as
individual drives, something of like this thing:
http://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-HF2-SU3S23-External-Drive-Enclosure/dp/B003X26VV4/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1319542826&sr=1-2
which works over usb 3.0, so in theory I could add two of these over usb
3.0, to get another 8*3=24TB. Problem is, these are noisy (at least at
ear level) and sometimes the drives drop out (I own one already). But
two of these is cheaper than a cheap PC.
I think Greg said is has about 60TB of space....what kind of box is that in?
Has anyone built a DIY box for HD storage over a usb 3.0 connection?
