5400rpm Drives and HD streaming and NAS's...

[David]

5900rpm Drives and HD streaming and NAS's...

As above really, i'm looking at buying a NAS, prob 4 bay maybe the netgear readynas nv+

http://netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASNVPlus/RND4000.aspx

or

maybe something with storage already in there

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001FAE64K/?tag=cliospnet01-21

So anyway, first of all does anyone have any other 4bay nas recommendations? or are either of these any good?

Secondly and to some extent more importantly. in populating one of these NAS boxes, would a 7200rpm drive be advantageous over a 5900 one?

the only thing i'll be using this nas for is 1080p mkv streaming to and from various devices - htpc/ps3 etc.

im ' aware 5900's run quieter, cooler and are cheaper because of course they're slower but am i going to see judder on the movies or anything like that? anyone know?

at the moment i'm looking at getting x4 2tb seagate barracuda 5900rpm

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-213-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

 

[McBunny]

no you will be fine unless your trying to stream multiple streams most probably 7-8 bluray rips

 

[David]

never do more than one, EVER. thats perfectmate thank you.

any info on the nas's mate?heard of any gooduns/baduns?

 

[McBunny]

but i can think of better ways to spend almost £900

 

[McBunny]

its alright but you may be better building a small pc instead and hiding it somewhere

 

[David]

a small pc housing 4 drives/silent and on the network...for under 800?

 

[McBunny]

erm yeah but not that small hence i said hide it

old desktop would work fine athlon x2 5000 2gb ram world work not an issue as thats whats running mine that has 5 drives in attached to it

 

[David]

hmm thanks mate.

 

[McBunny]

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1600010192.1261041831@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccadejedellffcflgceggdhhmdfnm.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=589734&category_oid=

that memory plus drives full of win

even has vista on it although you may aswell replace it with a nix of some description as all it will be is a file server

 

[David]

oooh....win ser08 why wouldnt i!

 

[McBunny]

exactly that would work fine nas boxes are good but a pc is better its more flexible but they are larger

 

[Dink]

i run a celeron cpu in my nas with 6 drives and i can write to it at about 50MB/s over gigabit lan

 

[David]

ok....what 'nas' is that. just a regular pc?

 

[sn00p]

I use freenas at work, more protocols and options that you can shake a stick at.

 

[Dink]

i just run a headless pc running ubuntu

i had a wd mybook world which was full of fail tbh

 

[sneeks]

The Qnap drives have a good reputation and are worth looking at.

http://www.qnap.com/Products.asp

 

[f0xy]

Im running a 250mhz PC with 12 drives, 128mb memory and a network card, runs a stripped version of Ubuntu...never gone wrong for 4 years....its been on for around 400 days now without an issue

 

[Tom]

http://www.apple.com/uk/macmini/server/

mmmmm

 

[McBunny]

http://www.apple.com/uk/macmini/server/

mmmmm

overpriced and pointless and doesnt do what he wants

 

[ChrisR]

I'm using a readynas duo with 2 x 1.5 terabyte samsung drives. cost about 300 all in.

Only 2 drives but that's enough for me.

 

[UncleGrumpy]

overpriced and pointless and doesnt do what he wants

Nice picture of a leopard on the DVD though whether that makes it worth £800 is another matter*








































*it doesn't

 

[David]

qnap looks good but jesus they're expensive...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-008-QN&tool=3

apple server doesn't really fit purpose!!! i need basically cheapish redundant easily accessible high definition media storage !

 

[McBunny]

and thats basically a pc its the cheapest way and the easyest imho granted not the smallest or quietest without some investment but in teh end it will be better than a cheap nas setup