NAS on a budget

[Gatt]

Looking at building a, fairly, cheap NAS box at home for media streaming (Videos & MP3s) with the following specs:

 

• Budget of £200 poss £250 at a push
  
• Easy to add another drive(s) as needed without reconfiguration
  
• Quiet to run - we don't want the thing to sound like a Harrier Jump jet!
  

Any and all advise appreciated on things like Cases, Mobo's RAID Card, FreeNAS or not..,etc

 

We plan to stream it to a MythTV box and to start with a 2TB drive

[sted]

the hp proliant microserver is cheap atm about £340ish with £100 cash back comes with a 250gb drive (which i have mounted in the rom drive bay) and 4 "quick release" hdd bays supports raid 0 and 1 has an internal usb port perfect for freenas. I tried freenas on it but as soon as i set the hdd array to raid mode it wouldnt boot so im currently using my technet server 08r2 licence on it. Just takes standard sata drives mine got 4*2tb seagates in (2 from my readynas due i decided was too slow and limiting) and 2 new ones as 2 raid 1 arrays (i did tray raid 10 the web interface allows you do set it up but it dosent survive a reboot lol. Grunt wise its not the fastest but its cabaple of running 08r2 and a win7 install on hyper v just about usably on 3gb ram (again shoved a spare 2gb stick in as well as the standard 1gb)

[EduTech]

Have you had a look at the QNAP's Mate.. They are fairly cheap and very good piece's of kit to be honest. If you get a 2bay and use RAID.

 

James.

[Guest Guest]

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253305

 

£140, not bad

 

I personally just run debian on my server/nas. That was I have full control of it, a web gui (if needed) via webmin, and can install things like ampache, mythtv backend, vpn/remote access, etc

 

 

Cant say Ive ever used this supplier, but £130 - http://www.box.co.uk/HP_ProLiant_N36L_1P_MicroServe_1034901.html

Edited April 14, 2011 by Guest