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post #16 of 19
3/21/13 at 4:52am
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Green hard disks I wouldn't touch with a 10ft barge pole. They are just about guaranteed to fail after a year or two. 

 

After spending a year slowly investigating, I ended up using my old MacBook Pro from 2006 that has a dead battery as a NAS with a couple of external eSATA cases. I stuck it in an upside-down "V" position behind the TV so that it doesn't automatically sleep which it will do with the lid closed. No having to worry about what software to use or other issues as I just used the drives I had that already have all my stuff on them. I think down the track I'll get a couple of 3TB drives and make a RAID 1 mirror from them for safety though.

 

Safety? RAID isn't a substitute for backing data up. Think house burning down, thieves, viruses, corruptions (hardware or software). It only offers protection against disk failure.

 

I've never had a WD green fail yet, and I wouldn't care if they did really either. As I said everything that's important to me I keep offsite at work.

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post #17 of 19
3/21/13 at 4:59am
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I have an HP Microserver I paid £100ish for (got £100 off via a cashback scheme), takes 4 bays stock but can be modded to fit 6 drives - I'll probably just stick to 5. Plan was to fill it with drives and run UnRAID but right when I was about to order, the floods in Thailand hit and prices rocketed. Waited a long time for them to get back to something resembling normal again - think I'll go for the WD Reds at this stage, although I'm still waiting for a killer deal to pop up. Idea will be to run both Logitech Media Server on it for my SBT as well as have it as my iTunes library as I'm weird and run a couple of different systems!

 

AKA - NAS Killer. So cheap you can't afford not to buy one :)

 

Make sure you throw 16GB Ram at it too. Hell, some guys are running VMware on it for labs etc. They're just such a versatile platform.

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post #18 of 19
3/21/13 at 6:32am
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I don't know which version of OSX you have on your 2006 macbook pro, but I use nosleep with my MBP so I can close the lid and still keep it running all its programs.  

 

Ahh, thanks for that. I'd forgotten it existed. The way the MBP is sitting now though is quite stable and it runs much cooler than it did in the normal position it was used. The fans don't even spin up when recoding video. It was useless before for playing music with Audirvana for example, as if you turned up-sampling on the fans would go nuts.

 

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Originally Posted by Currawong View Post

Green hard disks I wouldn't touch with a 10ft barge pole. They are just about guaranteed to fail after a year or two. 

 

After spending a year slowly investigating, I ended up using my old MacBook Pro from 2006 that has a dead battery as a NAS with a couple of external eSATA cases. I stuck it in an upside-down "V" position behind the TV so that it doesn't automatically sleep which it will do with the lid closed. No having to worry about what software to use or other issues as I just used the drives I had that already have all my stuff on them. I think down the track I'll get a couple of 3TB drives and make a RAID 1 mirror from them for safety though.

 

Safety? RAID isn't a substitute for backing data up. Think house burning down, thieves, viruses, corruptions (hardware or software). It only offers protection against disk failure.

 

I've never had a WD green fail yet, and I wouldn't care if they did really either. As I said everything that's important to me I keep offsite at work.

 

That's something I was going to point out and you reminded me of something I'd forgotten: If a disk fails, it's very likely its same-batch, same-box partner will as well.  In actuality I have all my data manually duplicated across a number of disks in different cases, depending on how important it is, and then again using Backblaze.

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post #19 of 19
3/21/13 at 6:41am
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AKA - NAS Killer. So cheap you can't afford not to buy one :)

 

Make sure you throw 16GB Ram at it too. Hell, some guys are running VMware on it for labs etc. They're just such a versatile platform.

 

I just added another 1GB stick to the existing 1GB - it'll really only be used by me and do one thing at any one time (mostly just serving music), so it'll probably be fine for that as it stands. It's a cool little device though and superb value for money as long as you're prepared to do a bit more work than you would with something like a Synology.

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