Well I just bought a huge nas

TheBuzzer

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I bought the Thecus N7700 and x7 1 Tb WD 32 mb cache hd. I did not buy seagate because they die a lot faster all the time I used it compared to WD.


My current comp already have 3 1 Tb wd and i am thinking of raid 5 the Thecus nas so it will be 6 Tb extra.

Still not as big as some other ppl setup around here.

I was planning to go with a home server but I could not find any where it support many hd. There was one brand that had 5 hd and could add on another set of hd though a nas. I was thinking of building a tower but that will take up more space and use more power. so I just ended up buying a nas with 7 bays.
 
i was just looking at that system... looks nice, the only thing that a WHS give you is that your data is not stuck on some proprietary OS that cannot be mounted anywhere else....

also the online disk expansion of different disk sizes.

I have a WHS, and think i am going to go with a RAID 5 setup with virtual WHS using a portion of that raid 5 array....

I really dont like the data duplication (ala simple RAID 1 but not real time... i have been using WHS for about 2 months and somethings are just great... but I want Media Center on my server to record TV and not have my HTPC on all the time, and to have a backup of my WHS data...

therefore, i am going to do a RAID 5 setup w/ 4 750gb WD-GP drives and a 5th as a hotspare. with a 1TB backup drive for all important info and WHS backups of the backups :)

let us know how that thing works for you...

can it do torrents?
 
well. it is a nas system. which is just a network drive i think. it isnt like a server with a brain.



I was thinking of making a home server but all home server max i found is 5 Hard drives and 1 got to have the os. what is possible with this however is attaching it to a home server and let home server control it.


So it cant do torrent and stuff.


I leave my main comp all the time so that will be doing torrents and stuff with my other hard drives.
 
TheBuzzer said:
well. it is a nas system. which is just a network drive i think. it isnt like a server with a brain.



I was thinking of making a home server but all home server max i found is 5 Hard drives and 1 got to have the os. what is possible with this however is attaching it to a home server and let home server control it.


So it cant do torrent and stuff.


I leave my main comp all the time so that will be doing torrents and stuff with my other hard drives.
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you can intall utorrent on WHS and access it with RDP or with utorrent webui

also you can do a custom build WHS with many drives, like many who use a norco 4020 case with 20 hotswap srives
 
I have the N5200 myself, with 3 X 1 TB WD GP drives in it for now in Raid 5. It's a shame that Seagate is having so many problems with the big drives right now. Would have been nice to start with 5 X 1.5s for now and expand it later.

I am very happy with my Thecus and highly recommend it to anyone who is in the market for simple, fast online storage.

Don
 
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