Recent content by Jeffspears

degraded raids are still functional and accessable

Unless I am mistaken all files are still accessibile when a raid is degraded, raid 5 and and 6 included.

Cough* NASes dont actually use hardware controllers but software, I guess so they could get more control over dropping HDDs from the raid, so TLER in enterprise level HDDs arent actually used.

Why do corporations with high paid IT experts go and buy premade stuff? Why don't they build it themselves? To my argument, prebuilt PCs could be overpriced about ~10-20% which is acceptable to most (excluding some gaming rigs) However in the premade NAS the hardware overpricing is...

+1, your right I do value reliability and most exportantly time, I think I know what I must do now. Thanks for the suggested setups guys I`ll write them down for future reference, some stuff never gets old.

Yeah I feel in love with the Synology, the only downfall was streaming and I can't blame them since it's apple's restrictions that's causing this whole mess. really just need a push and I am there

Amen to that, see it's not hard to build a file server and the equipment sure doesn't cost much either. For $250 someone could build a much better performing system than a NAS, I don't know where the money is going in a NAS and with the number of products and custom built Power...

I`ll try to get my head around a $500 worth of a modified linux OS and plugins which from what I could see are sometimes offered for free and I have visited most NAS forums the support isn't 10/10 mostly good ppl helping out others. I am free to go build my own but I don't know why I keep on...

I have spent about every free minute for the last 3 days researching home file servers and I keep on getting deeper and deeper and one question brings another and a never endless stream of questions. I was thinking of getting a Synology DS1512+ but I noticed it's price and most premade NAS...