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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    http://www.dabs.com/products/zyxel-n...m_content=TB00

    Basic NAS from Zyxel - bit cheaper too.

    If you are buying Hard Drives with it (need to spend over £150 in total) use voucher code HEART10 to get £10 off. Only valid till the end of today though.

    Quote Originally Posted by blueball View Post
    I see no point in going to Cat 6 cable. Cat 5e is fine for Gigabit (I run it all over the house).
    Same here - 1 and a bit boxes of Cat5e later my house is halfway there

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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    i got cat5e or so the cable says, even has gigabit printed on it, the cables being replaced anyways as partly damaged by the cat, atleast cat6a will make it last another 5+ years since thats 10gigabit.

    Im getting max of 12MB/s on the drives and when transfering between the two drives its only 3MB/s, im assuming that my cable really is only 100Mb/s.
    As another thread i asked about cat6 and the only reason to go with cat5e is that its easier to install, ive found that i have a cat6a 5 metre cable (connected to gigabit router from modem) and thats easy to install and its travelling in straight lines with minimal bending so i should be sorted in that respect. Seems silly to get Cat5e with i can get 10gigabit ethernet for a few quid more since i can install it .


    Those zyxel seem to fit the bill, curious though it says its a 2 bay NAS and in the spec it says One 3.5" SATA I/II hard disk interface supported, is that just a typo?

    Wont need drives with it thankfully , just in the process of moving all my documents from one drive to another so i can actually setup RAID for them in a NAS box.

    edit: ok looking further, i found this http://www.digitalversus.com/nas/zyx...0197/test.html ... those speeds are looking pretty dire really! Thats only marginally faster than the icybox i have at the minute, confused!.
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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    TBH I think the biggest problem you had with plan A was that 9800GT graphics card. They have quite a high idle power ISTR.

    I run a Athlon X2 5600 on my home server, with integrated graphics. Idle power is pretty good, but if I hit it with real work it can cope. It also serves email and acts as secondary firewall (it runs Centos).

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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    Can't you just stick the HDD into your PC?
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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    Quote Originally Posted by IronWarrior View Post
    £150 to stick a hard drive in a case What planet are you living on?
    To which bit are you referring?

    Cheap NAS = Slow
    Fast NAS = Expensive

    HP Microserver = Versatile & able to saturate GbE...

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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    I could, however another point is that i dont want HDD in my system anymore as they're the loudest part of it , its not vibrations but all i hear is the flipping spinning of the disks its really annoying .

    And i want to be able to access it from other systems without having my main pc online .
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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    I don't think its your network holding you back. I have a Synology 407e running 4 x 250Gb SATA drives in RAID 5 and I can get about 12MB/s reads and 7 MB/s writes. It is the hardware in the NAS holding it back.

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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    Thanks for highlighting that , even though as you pointed out its probably not my network holding it back i will still throw the £15 at it just for the future (as the cable doesnt even stay in and the sheathing has been destroyed... flipping cats!)but it means its a less pressing issue/requirement .

    Id say the servers are a good idea but to much for me to expend at this time, thinking maybe grabing an Atom setup as they're about £60 (mobo and chip with gpu) and that is 2watts less than the server chip . Good or bad idea?
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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    At idle modern CPUs only take a few watts, the atom really doesn't help. Motherboards are more power optimised, every feature you don't use like Fireware port support chips and extra sata chips are a few watts each and all add up, but I honestly wouldn't worry about CPU choice.

    Single thread performance does matter for file serving, and Atom isn't at all good at that. If you already had one then great, but I wouldn't spend money on one for this use.

    Quick check btw, I pulled a DVD iso (Centos 6, 4.2GB) from my server downstairs and Windows 7 said at the end of the transfer 40.2MB/sec.

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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    I get about 40MB/s of my windows server as well so I know it is my NAS that is the weak point. Would love to have a Synology 1511+ but not at £600 without disks.

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    Re: Make your own NAS?

    Oh, and if you have't got one then one thing you should get is a power meter.

    http://www.maplin.co.uk/plug-in-elec...culator-223573

    else you are guessing

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