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BeatBot

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Do here is the deal. I have little or rather i have no space remaining out of all my drives. I currently have 1tb in total and they hold everything from my F1 collection to music and documents. Now i need more space(obivously). So i decided to get me. NAS secondhand... Until i discouvered! No where to be found, and new ones cost an arm and half a bum! Any ideas ladies and gentle brothers? My last resort is to get my cousin to bring me one from UK, but i like to support the locals.
 
Apparently those things are weak when more than 2 users get onto them and demand data from them... Thus pushing to bottom of my list.
 
You can build a NAS using a desktop (or Microserver) and NAS4Free and spec the hardware according to your needs. Otherwise, Qnap NAS devices are pretty good and start at about R1.5 k ex vat for a single disk NAS enclosure.
 
That is still costly. Judging from the current exchange rate, I can get one for about R1.5k and it will come with about 3/4 TB of space. Still big bargain and looks good too....
 
BeatBot said:
Apparently those things are weak when more than 2 users get onto them and demand data from them... Thus pushing to bottom of my list.
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No, microservers are great. I have a bunch of them being used as a nas all over the place.
 
BeatBot said:
That is still costly. Judging from the current exchange rate, I can get one for about R1.5k and it will come with about 3/4 TB of space. Still big bargain and looks good too....
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I find that hard to believe, are you sure its not just the enclosure that has that capacity minus drives?
 
 
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Well even without the drives they are way less than what we pay here. I can't seem to find that exact one, guessing someone already took it, but here is one: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/2-bay-d-link-nas-enclosure/1026453590#photo-content

And another: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/dlink-nas-drive-2-bay/1026223642

one more: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/netgear-stora-2x-500-gb-network-attached-storage-nas-box/1025796843

last one I promise: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/1tb-hard-drive-nas-network-attached-storage-reduced-further/1025752193
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Those are mostly (if not all I'm not sure) 2nd hand. Have a look here if you want to buy from the UK. They have some 2 bay link models for @R1k not including disks.
 
A NAS (my favorites are Synology and QNAP) will be expensive. Once you go 4-5 bays the base model will cost about 4K and then the sky is the limit (depending on the HDDs you fit).
 
I think i am going to get the freecom silver store 2. Basically has space for 2 drives, 1 network connection, 1 usb3, 1 usb2. Comes to a lil over 1k. Brand spankin....new
 
put the money towards a bigger case, and a better mobo or a SAS card.
(or just buy a 3-bay-to-4-HDD device, which costs like R150 if you don't want a new case)

I got a gigabyte mobo with 8 SATA ports for R1299 incl vat.
 
Let me stop being an arse and check out the hp micro servers for myself. Any good places that deliver with a good price?
 
BeatBot said:
Let me stop being an arse and check out the hp micro servers for myself. Any good places that deliver with a good price?
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While being sensible, check out Synology too. I am very happy with mine albeit one with a small processor, it does everything I need and I have yet to experience any lags or problems with speed. Uniterm Direct sells these and recently had specials on micro servers
 
Lovely they seem... Wait i think I forgot to mention one important constraint, I am a student which automatically means im always... ALWAYS! broke. I have a very tight budget for this. And man once it starts to jump over 1500 means im back to just bread and peanut butter for a while, and I thought i left that life last year man.

Let me see if I cannot locate something of this sort in UK. Everything seems a tad cheaper there, plus I got free transportation to this side.
 
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