NAS multi-storage(media) server recommendations?

[xkater]

Hi folks - wondering if anyone has tried to build a "NAS multi-media box".
I have numerous legacy media stored that i would like to house in a single [low-power] NAS device - all media expected to be removable(no RAID).

Drives: typical 2.5"/3.5"; LTO tape; SD/MMC; Blu-Ray/DVD; ZIP; maybe even 3.5" floppy - would need at least 4 bays.

Or maybe NAS software is not configurable to this degree?

any ideas - tia

 

[dave_the_nerd]

You'd have to be reconfiguring all the shares every time you swapped a device or cartridge out.

Time to consolidate all your data onto a uniform set of HDDs.

 

[xkater]

ALL the shares, or just the swapped drive?

I don't have enough room in my present box to include these 'extra' drives, and I don't intend to be endlessly swapping, in and out.

I already have numerous (inconvenient) external swappable devices - each with their own power supply, space requirements, etc., etc.

It'd be a general convenience - useful when i happen to come upon an old media somewhere, or someone brings me one.


thanks again!

you're right about the 'uniform sets' - i've got 'uniform sets' of 80MB, uniform sets of 120MB, uniform sets of . . .

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Just the swapped drive, most likely. But do you really want to host files off of a floppy disk?

Also, all that old magnetic media (floppies, zip cartridges, etc.) is a ticking time bomb. Migrate that stuff, like, yesterday.