Cost effective NAS device

[mancombseepgood]

Anyone tried any of the nice NAS devices on the market recently?
I am looking for something that does RAID and takes up to 4 HDDs and offers general services - SMB, web interface, FTP, etc.

I have looked at the awesome Intel boxes, but wondered how the other brands stacked up...
Netgear etc.

Thanks in advance!

 

[The_Techie]

I prefer building my own NAS and install FreeNAS on it

 

[mancombseepgood]

Sure, but at what cost?

 

[The_Techie]

Sure, but at what cost?

FreeNAS is free and I recycle my old PCs to make NAS devices so in my case it's completely free

You also don't need a super PC to run FreeNAS. Have a look here.

 

[mancombseepgood]

Sure, I just don't have a PC spare lol.

Either way, I have decided to go with a server box since I will need IIS in the long run.

 

[bwana]

FreeNAS is free and I recycle my old PCs to make NAS devices so in my case it's completely free

You also don't need a super PC to run FreeNAS. Have a look here.

Maybe I'll give it a shot - thanks.

 

[The_Techie]

Maybe I'll give it a shot - thanks.

No problem