NAS Drive - Which One ?

[Gray]

Is it just 1TB or 6TB, Gray?

They are 1Tb each, not ginormous.. but would be decent for a RAID5 setup in a NAS enclosure.

 

[BRUN]

Wish you had said earlier !......how much ?

 

[Gavin.]

Way way way over the top but I just picked up a Mac Pro 1.1 for £190. It's pretty much going to be used as a Plex media server and have four 2tb in a raid setup for backup storage. It's got 2 x 2.66mhz Xeon dual core with 7gb ram so more than enough to deal with any transcoding, you can also run Mavericks on it and they are working on Yosemite.

 

[The Boosh!]

Way way way over the top but I just picked up a Mac Pro 1.1 for £190. It's pretty much going to be used as a Plex media server and have four 2tb in a raid setup for backup storage. It's got 2 x 2.66mhz Xeon dual core with 7gb ram so more than enough to deal with any transcoding, you can also run Mavericks on it and they are working on Yosemite.

Bloody hell lol. What's total cost of that all in then?

 

[Gavin.]

Bloody hell lol. What's total cost of that all in then?

Not bought it all yet, I have the chassis (£190), i've put a 128gb ssd in it (£45) for the OS and the graphics card needed upgrading as the current on can't handle Mavericks (£20) so I still need 4 x 2tb drives probably about £60ea. So all in thats £475.

Mines like this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Mac...mputing_Apple_Desktops_CV&hash=item25984e2b96

 

[Gray]

Not bought it all yet, I have the chassis (£190), i've put a 128gb ssd in it (£45) for the OS and the graphics card needed upgrading as the current on can't handle Mavericks (£20) so I still need 4 x 2tb drives probably about £60ea. So all in thats £475.

Mines like this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Mac...mputing_Apple_Desktops_CV&hash=item25984e2b96

Or 4 x 1tb WD Black drives?

 

[Gavin.]

Or 4 x 1tb WD Black drives? :wink:

Never heard of them, i've been out of the desktop game for a while now. Are they worth it over a normal hdd?

 

[Gray]

Never heard of them, i've been out of the desktop game for a while now. Are they worth it over a normal hdd?

WD = Western Digital.

they are a 'normal' HDD, But SATA III and a 64Mb cache.

Also 2yrs warranty.

 

[Gavin.]

WD = Western Digital.

they are a 'normal' HDD, But SATA III and a 64Mb cache.

Also 2yrs warranty.

Haha, maybe a should have expanded on that :smile: I know Western Digital, just not that specific drive :wink: I'll have a look into those.

 

[BRUN]

@The Boosh! have you ordered yours yet ?

 

[The Boosh!]

@The Boosh! have you ordered yours yet ?

Yeh Amazon 119.

Going to order x2 2TB WD Red drives this week.

 

[BRUN]

Ive ordered 1 x 3TB for now, when im installing it do I need to do anything special as ill be adding another drive at some point, will the NAS be able to setup RAID if ive already got things on the first drive or will it have to wipe them off ?

 

[sn00p]

The 214se doesn't run plex though does it? I've been meaning to get one of these for ages but have never got round to it.

I don't need transcoding either.

 

[BRUN]

I don't believe it will run Plex, personally im not bothered as I don't use it now and don't intend to

 

[BRUN]

Ive changed my mind, id never end up adding another drive to it, so ive gone for the DS114 single bay instead

 

[BRUN]

quickly set the DS114 up last night, not had a lot of time to play with it, but im really happy with it so far, the desktop style interface is really good

ive also managed to play a file from it on my phone via wifi elsewhere using the video app and then it plays through VLC, not something id probably use but wasn't expecting it to be able to do that, I guess the internet at both ends must be decent enough for it to play

im also really liking the download app, I can start things downloading from anywhere really easily and they will be done by the time im home

 

[BRUN]

any idea how i get my subfolders to show when using the xbox one through dlna ?

currently its only showing the main folders

//edit

no idea what i did but they are now showing, maybe it hadnt indexed the drive yet, no idea lol

 

[Randles]

Have you put your Videos in the Videos folder, Music in the Music folder?
You may need to setup different network drives on your PC. I've got X: Drive - \\Diskstation\Music, Y: Drive \\Diskstation\Vidoes, and Z: Drive, which is my home folder for backing data up.

 

[Nik]

It can take a minute or two to pick up new files and folders sometimes. If I add a large movie file then go straight to it on my tv occasionally I need to exit and go back in then it's there.

 

[Nik]

Synology DS213J NAS deal coming up on Amazon in 40 mins or so. Price will drop then.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CDG2XHC/?tag=cliospnet01-21

 

[Jack!]

I have the DS213J, can't recommend it highly enough. Amazon or somewhere else will probably have a deal on drives for it as well, are Overclockers etc doing Black Friday?

 

[The Boosh!]

Synology DS213J NAS deal coming up on Amazon in 40 mins or so. Price will drop then.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CDG2XHC/?tag=cliospnet01-21

thats annoying!

 

[Nik]

£129.99

 

[sn00p]

Wasn't a great price drop though.

I guess quite a few people thought the same as I managed to get it into my cart twice, once when it came up and then again when I hit join waitlist because I was curious how long the queue was!