[olug] DIY NAS/HTPC

[Matthew Botts]

I would definitely recommend freenas. Easy to setup, and has a great set of
utilities with it.
On Jan 8, 2013 4:24 PM, "Sheldon, Roger W" <Roger.Sheldon at firstdata.com>
wrote:

> I'm building a NAS for friend... honest lol. I haven't built a SOHO
> NAS/HTPC before but I have built tons of PC's.  Leaning pretty heavily
> towards freenas but haven't tried other ones like openfiler or
> openmediavault. He just may forgo the freenas and use Plex, Twonky or
> Serviio on top of Windoze.
>
> Some factors considered dunno if I missed some.
>
> -          Heat
>
> -          Energy
>
> -          # disks (sata III no SAS) minimum 5 disks
>
> -          Noise
>
> -          Option to add video card to add HTPC functionality
>
> -          NAS software (no WHS)
>
> -          Hardware (no atom cpu)
>
> -          Ports
>
> -          Media streaming option
>
> Case:  PC-Q18, PC-Q25 or SilverStone Grandia GD08
>
> Any recommends?
>
> Here is one I found on Amazon with 5 drive bay. Thing is this would work
> but looks like it belongs on I.T desk not in the living room.
> $518
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Five-tray-less-drive-hardware-enclosure/dp/B002QYECOI/ref=sr_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1331180696&sr=1-7&tag=vglnk-c1001-20
>
>
>
> Roger Sheldon
> Storage Engineer
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