Most people in this forum are rocking hardcore 10+ drive NAS'es costing $1000s of dollars. You can homebrew also, a simple setup would be $60 case, $80 MB, $115 Proc, $80 RAM, $140 PSU, $90 m1015 HBA, and however many drives you want, you could fit maybe 6-7 in a medium sized case.ĭrives are definitely the most expensive part of the equation, 4TB drives are $150 each.įor software, FreeNAS is easy to use and runs on a USB stick, if you want more powerful you can go with some Variant of Solaris, or if you want something different yet simple to use and then Linux
What you are paying for is primarily their easy to use and powerful software. If you want a plug and play solution you can get a QNAP or Synology for $200-1200 depending on what features you want. NAS'es aren't for everyone, most people just fill up their main PC with as many drives as they can fit before starting to think about a NAS. What's the hype about them? Why not just share dedicated drives from your desktop over the network and dedicate a NIC or two to them? Otherwise, it seems to be the equivalent of buying a $15,000 car from a dealership merely for its radio. Sheesh, if you're gonna be spending $500+ on a NAS rig, you might as well throw a video card into it and make it an all-around system for general use. I mean, if you can get a 3TB external for <$80, isn't a NAS essentially just "stacking" another drive on top of that like you could do with RAM modules, and then slapping a NIC and a bit of Linux into it? Good grief, I can't understand why pre-built NAS setups cost so much?! (.and without drives!) But I wager I'm missing some key information on expensive features in this regard. Seems awful hefty, given that it seems to be the equivalent of a Rasperry Pi keeping an eye on a couple hard drives. I'm not too keen to build a dedicated machine solely to NAS, but at the same time, I'm a bit aghast to see "home"-use all-in-one NAS rigs going for $500+. I'm curious how many of you use them, what model/type, and if you don't mind mentioning, what it cost. I'm in need of some more storage space, but with 5 drives already packed into my desktop, I'm wondering if I should be making the jump to a nice, fatty NAS. How many (home users) use NAS? What's your NAS system/setup?
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