Lots of media, 4 hard drives need a solution - Page 6

Creibold · 01:25 AM

Funny I saw this thread, I'm looking at the same thing... my setup so far, which i believe would make a nice media server:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

and 2x (I might swap this out for the samsung ultra low voltage ram):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

and 2x (for the hard drive bays):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

This is $196 driveless. That little mini ITX motherboard has 6 6GB/s Sata ports too! The processor that is included is a duel-core 1.0ghz Atom processor than barely uses any power. Now, couple this with those new WD Red NAS drives that were recently annouced at (1TB at $109 a pop) and this is the route I'm going to share media throughout my household and back it up as well. I plan to get 2 2TB HDD's in a redundant RAID array to start.

I will be most likely running FreeNAS8 on this box, but it looks like in the 8.1 release, it will support being an iTunes server, which would be great.

Botts85 · Feb 5, 2013, 09:57 AM

I went a different route, I'm using an old white MacBook which is AFP sharing 6 external drives.

Ideally, I'll upgrade it to a used Mac Mini for under $300 and then run FW800 instead of FW400 which the MacBook is running.

This solution is great as it is a native Apple solution, works great with Time Machine without any monkeying around, and you can use Disk Utility to SPAN/BIG, or RAID disks as required.

Jul 13, 2012, 01:15 AM	#126
Creibold macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2006	Funny I saw this thread, I'm looking at the same thing... my setup so far, which i believe would make a nice media server: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER and 2x (I might swap this out for the samsung ultra low voltage ram): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER and 2x (for the hard drive bays): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER This is $196 driveless. That little mini ITX motherboard has 6 6GB/s Sata ports too! The processor that is included is a duel-core 1.0ghz Atom processor than barely uses any power. Now, couple this with those new WD Red NAS drives that were recently annouced at (1TB at $109 a pop) and this is the route I'm going to share media throughout my household and back it up as well. I plan to get 2 2TB HDD's in a redundant RAID array to start. I will be most likely running FreeNAS8 on this box, but it looks like in the 8.1 release, it will support being an iTunes server, which would be great. __________________ "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." - Mark Twain Last edited by Creibold; Jul 13, 2012 at 01:25 AM.
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Feb 5, 2013, 09:57 AM	#127
Botts85 macrumors newbie Join Date: Feb 2007	I went a different route, I'm using an old white MacBook which is AFP sharing 6 external drives. Ideally, I'll upgrade it to a used Mac Mini for under $300 and then run FW800 instead of FW400 which the MacBook is running. This solution is great as it is a native Apple solution, works great with Time Machine without any monkeying around, and you can use Disk Utility to SPAN/BIG, or RAID disks as required.
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