- Joined
- Feb 25, 2001
- Location
- Iowa
I'm in need of an inexpensive, yet reliable NAS for my home that still manages to perform well enough for my needs which are (in order of importance):
- As inexpensive as possible (softRAID with FreeNAS or OpenFiler)
- Reliable (although I will likely make routine off-site backups to large USB drives).
- Ability to be expandable.
- Fast enough to be able to have media (MP3's, DVD's, Bluray, etc.) streamed from at LEAST two locations in the house simultaneously over my existing 1GB network.
Is it as simple as getting a motherboard with enough SATAII ports, throwing in 1.5TB drives, a smaller boot drive for installing FreeNAS or OpenFiler, setting up whichever OS I choose, creating an array and away we go or am I missing something here?
- As inexpensive as possible (softRAID with FreeNAS or OpenFiler)
- Reliable (although I will likely make routine off-site backups to large USB drives).
- Ability to be expandable.
- Fast enough to be able to have media (MP3's, DVD's, Bluray, etc.) streamed from at LEAST two locations in the house simultaneously over my existing 1GB network.
Is it as simple as getting a motherboard with enough SATAII ports, throwing in 1.5TB drives, a smaller boot drive for installing FreeNAS or OpenFiler, setting up whichever OS I choose, creating an array and away we go or am I missing something here?