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Comment: Synology 410 and 4 1T HD's (1.6T NAS for ~$1K) (Score 1) 609

by Derivin (#32215724) Attached to: Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage?
I used to have a 4U rackmount with 8 JBOD drives + a master drive, etc, etc, etc. that I built up over two years wasting about 3K on it. It died.

I ended up replacing it all for about $1000 shipped (1.7T Raid 5). It can support 4 2T HD's and

The NAS server is the 409+ non-rackmount from Synology (same-as/replaced-by the 410):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822108050&cm_re=synology-_-22-108-050-_-Product
http://www.synology.com/us/products/ds410/index.php

I spent quite some time researching the HD's to use and settled on these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152185

The newegg support was quite nice in helping m get drives from different batches (overkill, but nice).


It has worked fantastic. Supports timemachine and itunes naively, is a media server (integrates with my segate freeagent theater+ and PS3 seamlessly), the download manager rocks, and all our photo's are served up to the extended family (yea dyndns integration). Also integrates with UPS, external drives, and broadcasts the UPS issue to all my machines on the network. support for everything (and I mean everything.)

the admin interface this thing comes with is fantastic (linux on it with busybox and the ability to add your own packages):
http://www.synology.com/us/products/features/index.php

little box seriously rocks.
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