2011-08-12, 19:09
I'm looking for a NAS that I can add drives to over time and has some form of redundancy, starting at ~4TB. I was looking at the DroboPro but at $1,400, and from what I can tell has 2TB partition limits, it has a lot of horror stories. Are there any alternatives to Drobo that doesn't involve the high startup cost of buying all your drives at once?
I have also heard some stories where rebuilding 6-10TB RAID5 can take over a week.
I need to start with ~4TB of storage, so hopefully 2x3TB drives, after that I can contribute my 2x 2TB drives to the mix and 2x 0.75TB. After that I would like to start adding new 3TB and replace the 0.75 drives. This is why I think drobo would be the best option however the company seams to be making crap lately.
I would like to keep it under $1,000 including 2x 3TB drives, I don't have any issues with using Linux preferably Debian. If it's a computer tho I would like to have it as a dual purpose, either play XBMC, router/firewall, downloader, something to justify keeping it powered on all the time.
Edit: I just came across unRAID, anyone have experience with this? Specifically http://lime-technology.com/products/rb-1200-server
Edit2: I just noticed this ended up in Scraper Development, damn you $_SESSION!
I have also heard some stories where rebuilding 6-10TB RAID5 can take over a week.
I need to start with ~4TB of storage, so hopefully 2x3TB drives, after that I can contribute my 2x 2TB drives to the mix and 2x 0.75TB. After that I would like to start adding new 3TB and replace the 0.75 drives. This is why I think drobo would be the best option however the company seams to be making crap lately.
I would like to keep it under $1,000 including 2x 3TB drives, I don't have any issues with using Linux preferably Debian. If it's a computer tho I would like to have it as a dual purpose, either play XBMC, router/firewall, downloader, something to justify keeping it powered on all the time.
Edit: I just came across unRAID, anyone have experience with this? Specifically http://lime-technology.com/products/rb-1200-server
Edit2: I just noticed this ended up in Scraper Development, damn you $_SESSION!