santanan wrote: How much is

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August 2, 2011 at 4:27 pm #5084
SpacemanSpiff2000

    [quote=santanan]

    How much is your budget?  Are you looking to purchase a NAS that already has most, if not all, of the functions you want? Or, are you looking to build a NAS?

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    [quote=santanan]

    How much is your budget?  Are you looking to purchase a NAS that already has most, if not all, of the functions you want? Or, are you looking to build a NAS?

    [/quote]Sorry … other issues. So much data. I’ll take these 1 at a time.

    Budget: I expected that question. Answer: Whatever it takes without overkill … just basic fiscal responsibility. I know that’s hard for some people to wrap their head around … until you look at it from a 100% noob POV who has nothing to base a gut-feel upon. I need a basic ballpark.

    e.g., I never knew that my budget for an HTPC was ~$700 until I analyzed a lot of build specs, found/read a good guide or 2, read a lot about each part, and basically took weeks to spec a build that should do what I wanted without overkill for the best prices I could find … then have people make recommendations from that, I made changes, repriced … and after all that, the prices came to the high $600s. So that was my budget. That final product (which must work with the NAS) is here:  http://www.missingremote.com/forums/quick-anything-wrong-my-1st-htpc-build#comment-36694

    I’m in a similar position again. I’ve done some initial reading and need more of an experienced opinion and concept direction to start out. Like, I don’t know if I need hardware RAID, firmware RAID, software RAID, etc.  Basically, I’d like to save the weeks of self-torture this time and see if someone can help me narrow the 1000s of directions and millions of pages/posts that I don’t have time to read into some common, tried/true, current concepts and selections. Then I can research those things.

    And “roll my own” above refers to my wanting to build it … but that’s just so I don’t risk running into limitations like the ones I had simply upgrading a WD WorldBookII with non-WD drives. But if someone has experience with an “almost” system, and can adjust it without many limitations, and can articular how that’s better, I’m certainly listening.