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BUFFALO TeraStation ES 4-Bay 4 TB (4 x 1 TB) RAID Network Attached Storage (NAS) – TS-XE4.0TL/R5
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Question by Random: Whats a good Network atached storage device/OS i can use that my friend can acess from his network?
Me and my friends do allot of youtube video and they consist of allot of gaming. we like to do jump cuts back and forth betwene the two of us so the viewers get a better idea of where each of us are relative to each other and in the environment.
But heres the problem, the only way he is able to get the files to me is through an external hard drive which we need to hand off in pirson which isint very convenient. Im looking for the best network atached storage device/Operating system that will allow me store files on it, and allow my friends to do the same from his house.
As for suplies i have at the moment i currently have an old dell system (32Bit processor, 2GB of RAM and a very fast NIC) that is running windows XP home, and i also have an old 1TB HDD that i can plug into that, would that be good to run FreeNAS or another free network atached storage program? ive thought about how if i need to im willing to pick up a Sata controller card and maybe get a 2TB WD drive or something, maybe 2 and put them in a RAID-1. but thats just short term plans.
So what i wanna know:
-Whats a good NAS device/OS?
-Will my friend be able to acess it from his house?
-Will it be fairly fast, but cost efficient?
Id also like to know just for future reference what i could do if i had a higher budget (like $ 1500 as opposed to now with $ 300).
Best answer:
Answer by gandhi_2
Roll your own with a freenas with raid-z is a great option. Spares you from having to get a REAL raid card.
Drobos are kinda neat.
QNAP, Thecus, and Synology are kinda the next step in NAS, between the pro-sumer area but not quite crazy like an HP4000 lefthand SAN or Equalogic Array.
Anything that is networkable could be accessed from outside his house. You guys just gotta work out the port forwarding on the router.
FreeNas and all the commercial NAS’es have web file access. Other protocols like SMB and NFS are supported too… often even iSCSI.
A NAS is between “offline storage” like a tape, but not quite online storage like a $ 40,000 SAN. But seriously, the bottleneck will be the network most likely. These things support gig and even 10 gig ethernet, and fast drives can saturate those easily.
The computer you use for FreeNas doesn’t need to be all that special. Most NAS’s are low-end server equipment with a nice raid controller in a nice box.
Check these out too:
http://www.simplynas.com/qnap-ts-469-pro-4-bay-nas.aspx
Oh, I should point out that 32-bit and ZFS can be a little rough. You can google 32 bit freenas zfs for the fine tunings, but suffice it to say that very large pools with heavy usage, 64 bit and all the cheap ram you can throw at it will serve you well.
You could always just do a linux file server, use LVM2 to build a raid-like array. The file access would likewise be roll-your-own, install samba, nfs server, setup apache (or something else) for file access.
One day BTRFS will be all growed up and you could use that instead of ZFS.
OpenFiler is a good alternative to FreeNas. It’s linux (instead of freebsd), is usually faster, but doesn’t do zfs, but does do drbd.
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