Is this a good deal (NAS) ?

[Burner27]

Still a mystery... Maybe you like secrets?

I will make it easy on you and find the links for you:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboB...=Combo.1758460

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2-Terab...Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item19d20ad565

Now, the "egg" will change prices all the time so that machine I linked you to may not be that price in a day or two.

I made a machine similar to that, and added a $15 SATA 4 port controller card so that I could have 8 ports available. I add 6 x 2TB HDDs (I found them used with 1 year warranty on Ebay for $40 shipped each). I used FreeNAS which boots/runs off a USB stick. So ok, a little more than 1/2 the cost of the OP's original plan ($485 total), but I think its a better machine.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that's a pretty good deal... of course not available in Canada, we never get good deals like that here. 😛

If building a NAS you also want one or more of these:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16816215245

Supermicro used to make a nice one that could house 5 drives, they don't seem to make them anymore though.

 

[Carson Dyle]

The Supermicro:

http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-cse-m35t-1b~7SUPM0KH.htm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA24G28N5517

I have three of these in my file server. The original fans are loud, so I replaced them. Hotswap is nice, but it's not really necessary. If you're losing drives so often that you're plugging and unplugging drives on a regular basis, you've got some serious problems.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The Supermicro:

http://www.provantage.com/supermicro-cse-m35t-1b~7SUPM0KH.htm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA24G28N5517

I have three of these in my file server. The original fans are loud, so I replaced them. Hotswap is nice, but it's not really necessary. If you're losing drives so often that you're plugging and unplugging drives on a regular basis, you've got some serious problems.

Odd, they seem to have stopped selling it in Canada then. I was on the .ca site and it was not there.

But yeah, you want one or two of those for a NAS. Don't really want to be having to open the case up and fiddling around just to change a drive. Be sure to number each bay and keep a sheet of the serial numbers so when a drive fails you know which one to pull out.