Reply to: Which NAS drive?

[Sysman]

Have it under the TV, you can hear it when it's running (but then again I'm two days into solidly transferring everything from my old ReadyNAS Duo so it's constantly in use at the moment) but it's not noticeable with back ground noise etc

Ta. Manuals downloaded and looking at them now.

[SimonMac]

How quiet is it?

Have it under the TV, you can hear it when it's running (but then again I'm two days into solidly transferring everything from my old ReadyNAS Duo so it's constantly in use at the moment) but it's not noticeable with back ground noise etc

[Sysman]

Just ordered one of these Western Digital DL4100 with 4 WD Red HDD and an extra 4GB RAM, wanted an out of the box solution thats a bit more power user capabilities, seems to tick all my boxes for me

How quiet is it?

[SimonMac]

[FarmerPalmer]

I run a 4 disc QNAP - low power & reliable, it's about 4 years old now

[SimonMac]

Just ordered one of these Western Digital DL4100 with 4 WD Red HDD and an extra 4GB RAM, wanted an out of the box solution thats a bit more power user capabilities, seems to tick all my boxes for me

[unixman]

You sure you're not confusing amps with watts?

Just got the meter hooked up to the MacBook and it's sat at around 40W.....

No. My always-on home servers are based on low power tech - a sheevaplug and a coupla pies.

[stek]

I get twitchy if my home server collection goes over 10W.

You sure you're not confusing amps with watts?

Just got the meter hooked up to the MacBook and it's sat at around 40W.....

[unixman]

But it does keep your house warm all year.

I get twitchy if my home server collection goes over 10W.

[morf]

If you want the low hassle approach go synology or qnap. If you have more time and enjoy tinkering go hp micro server

[stek]

But it does keep your house warm all year.

Cracking piece of kit - rock solid and no waiting for disks spinning up and/or timing out or tulipty throughput.

The QNAP I had before was only 4tb and did about 80w but I got peed off with its slowness and just becoming totally unresponsive and needing a kick and sometimes a raid rebuild. None of that shiit with this baby, in fact I have an EXP300 expansion shelf to slap on it when I get some disks for it after I remortgage lol!

Not metered that - might do that tmrw, should be less cos no canisters on it...

It's paid for itself and it's current usage, taught myself fibre SAN on it which helps the rate, plus it's going into hosting hall for Plan B stage 2.

I have an Oracle 7120 Unified Storage box too, 12tb, now THAT uses some power! Does fibre, NFS, iSCSI, CIFS, the lot.....

[VectraMan]

TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE WATTS ???!!????

But it does keep your house warm all year.

[unixman]

Back to the future mode:

TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE WATTS ???!!????

[stek]

Sure the electric company loves your DS3400 too.

Sits at 245w with 24tb, an adequate compromise, those spin down Arm proc whatever's do my box in going to sleep and being unresponsive....

[unixman]

Sure the electric company loves your DS3400 too.