NAS recommendation for home use?

[mroz]

Thanks. It is the DS-408 I'm considering. I asked about the drives spinning down as one review of the DS-408 I read mentioned the device never entered the low power state with the drives they were using.

The F1 Spinpoints were actually the first drives I considered but the Ecogreens appeal as they are more reliable & use around 40% less power.

I'm hoping someone's used these in the DS-408. Anyone? Failing that it would be reassuring to know Scan would exchange them for a different model if they're not fully compatible.

[peterb]

One of the reasons that the drives don'tr enter a low power state maybe simply because the OS is always accessing them, usually for the swapfile, so the drive is never quiescent long enough to spin down.

[mroz]

It seems the Samsung F1s aren't recommended & the EcoGreen F2 isn't even mentioned :-/

The Western Digital WD10EADS Green seems to be a safe & recommended alternative to the F2.

Here's a nice comparative review.

[Shooty*]

BTW Wife reading this - her face dropped & she uttered a tired 'oh no...'; no faith in me - reckons it's take me about 300 years to complete.

I share your pain.

[mroz]

Revised budget constraints mean I'm going with a self-build option. Probably going to make use of my most recent machine which was meant for video editing, but I figure I can leave it dual booting XP for the odd project my laptop can't handle. It's a 2GB Q6600 quad core system (currently overclocked but I'll reset that) which in some respects is overkill however I'm falling for ZFS which seems to be resource hungry. I'll probably install the OS to flash via an ide adapter & add 4 1TB drives for data.

My main problem now is which OS? FreeNAS supports ZFS but only in the nightly builds of 0.7. OpenSolaris is probably a better option in respect of stability & flexibility but will present a steep learning curve. Then there's OpenFiler but the ZFS implementation under linux is fuse based; or I could play with NexentaCore. Any advice?