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  • R realJSOP

    Build Your Own NAS Device[^]

    ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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    Rage
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    :thumbsup:

    ~RaGE();

    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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      I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

      ~RaGE();

      I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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      I have a 4 disk RAID5 NAS, with 4 * 1TB HDD's It runs Linux, but I don't touch that: I want it to act as a "safe" file store for music, videos to cast to Chromecast, and my primary backups. And if I started modifying it, I'd probably never stop! :laugh:

      You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      • L Lost User

        I got a simple 2-bay synology NAS - and love it to bits. It's got all my photos on it, all my music on it, and I use it to stream movies to the telly. If I had more money I'd buy a couple more!

        PooperPig - Coming Soon

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        OriginalGriff
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        Rather than buying a couple more, I'd get a four (or more) bay: that way you can use RAID 5 to spread data across disks and mitigate any single HDD failure. Trust me, that is worth it's weight in gold pressed latinum!

        You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

        "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
        "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          Rage wrote:

          I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home.

          Wow, you think we are that good that we have rappers setup at home like NAS. I would much rather have Eminem :suss:

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          Rage
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          I second Eminem. Still need a NAS to store his albums.

          ~RaGE();

          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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          • N Nagy Vilmos

            I've just upgraded mine to use Odontomachus[^] on Rhododendron[^] employing Bilcharder's Relative Seven League Spell for improved transport speeds. Hope this helps!

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            BotCar
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            Nice! Did you get a new "Anthill Inside" sticker?

            What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

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              Nice! Did you get a new "Anthill Inside" sticker?

              What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.

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              Nagy Vilmos
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              No, it just appeared with a small *poof*.

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Rather than buying a couple more, I'd get a four (or more) bay: that way you can use RAID 5 to spread data across disks and mitigate any single HDD failure. Trust me, that is worth it's weight in gold pressed latinum!

                You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

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                Lost User
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                what you fail to appreciate, m fella, is that I'm, not friggin' made of money!

                PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                  what you fail to appreciate, m fella, is that I'm, not friggin' made of money!

                  PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                  I know the feeling - but it's a lot cheaper in the long run than having a disk fail: particularly if you are running your box in JBOD mode as a single large virtual disk. Either disk fails, and you lose the lot... If you can get to RAID5, then any single disk doesn't cost as much, because you don't lose anything - just replace the faulty disk when you can and carry on. And the "bare-bones" Synology boxes aren't exactly cheap either!

                  You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)

                  "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                  "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                  • R Rage

                    I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

                    ~RaGE();

                    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                    Mike Hankey
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                    I recommend JOSP's article also but I wrote and article of a NAS I configured using Ubuntu and it worked otu very well. FreeNAS or Ubuntu[^]

                    New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9. I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!

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                    • L Lost User

                      I got a simple 2-bay synology NAS - and love it to bits. It's got all my photos on it, all my music on it, and I use it to stream movies to the telly. If I had more money I'd buy a couple more!

                      PooperPig - Coming Soon

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                      _Maxxx_ wrote:

                      I got a simple 2-bay synology NAS - and love it to bits.

                      Ditto. Mine is set-up with mirrored 4TB drives.

                      Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

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                      • R Rage

                        I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

                        ~RaGE();

                        I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                        Dan Neely
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                        I'm currently using a home-build WHS 2011 box; but unless you're severely cash constrained, want ZFS/Btrfs, or need more than 4 drives (this transitions you from SOHO to SMB and prices balloon as a result); I'd strongly recommend getting an enclosure from Synology or QNAP and spending the evening or two you'd've spent setting up a DIY NAS enjoying some :beer: instead. If you just want a basic shared drive, one of the cheaper ARM based models will do fine. For heavy transcoding/light weight server duties/etc a higher end x86 model becomes worthwhile. Ganesh at Anandtech likes Synology's software for media streaming/etc best with QNAP in 2nd place (and everyone else well behind); but QNAP's recently added some light virtualization support to their x86 line. Not enough to be a remote dev box; but suitable for letting you install software not provided in their package manager without voiding your warranty by SSHing into the box and installing it via the CLI.

                        Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                          I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

                          ~RaGE();

                          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                          Ron Anders
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                          I use an old Win XP Dell laptop with a shared USB drive on it.

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                            I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

                            ~RaGE();

                            I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                            chriselst
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                            I cannot afford a NAS but my parents can and wanted something along those lines so I found something for them, configured it for them, and stole around half of it's capacity for my own nefarious uses.

                            Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                              I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

                              ~RaGE();

                              I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                              chriselst
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                              Just don't keep your nude photos on them[^]

                              Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                                I second Eminem. Still need a NAS to store his albums.

                                ~RaGE();

                                I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                                CBadger
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                                I use mede8tor and connect an external housing with HDD's in it

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                                  I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

                                  ~RaGE();

                                  I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                                  Forogar
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                                  I have a couple of old Dell machines running XP with a mixture of USB3 & eSATA 2TB drives (10 drives for each server), 40TB total, although effectively only 20TB as everything has at least two copies. They store and serve my film, music and ebook collections as well as being my in-house backups for everything on my main machines and for each other. I looked into buying dedicated NAS devices but decided this was an excellent use for old PCs with gigabit network cards and some powered USB3 hubs.

                                  - I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

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                                    Just don't keep your nude photos on them[^]

                                    Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                                    I wonder how that can happen : if the NAS is on your own subnet, how could someone access it ?

                                    ~RaGE();

                                    I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                                      I wonder how that can happen : if the NAS is on your own subnet, how could someone access it ?

                                      ~RaGE();

                                      I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                                      chriselst
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                                      The one my parents bought was by default available on the internet so you can access your stuff when out and about, and sync your mobile devices to it and so on. Also by default the share area has no security on it, and if you know the url to go to things stored on that bit are publicly available.

                                      Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                                        I wonder how that can happen : if the NAS is on your own subnet, how could someone access it ?

                                        ~RaGE();

                                        I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                                        I know most of the new packaged NAS's have optional VPNs, media servers and other such portals to allow access when you're away from home. The DIY solutions can include these things too. Me being the semi-paranoid (realistic?) type I have all this stuff disabled on mine.

                                        Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

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                                          I suppose all you little nerds all have a NAS setup at home. What do you use exactly ? Is it only a shared disk, or do you have an operating system running it (Linux or Windows ?)

                                          ~RaGE();

                                          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.

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                                          kmoorevs
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                                          No NAS for me. Instead, I simply use a server (Win2008) with shared drives, nothing fancy. At least two computers on the home network utilize synchronized folders for all development files. One of the computers is my laptop which only syncs twice a week, so that if anything goes awry, I always have a backup. Important server files (sql backups) are copied to an external drive. This has worked flawlessly for me for over a decade now. :)

                                          "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

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