Great deal I spotted on Mwave for the ReadyNas 4 bay drive. Really solid 4 bay NAS. If you put in 4 x 2TB Seagate drives then you can have a lot of storage.
NetGear 4 Bay NAS for $239 (+Shipping) from Mwave RND4000-200AJS ReadyNAS Diskless
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It was $13 cheapest delivery for me. Looks like is postcode dependent
Same for QLD $13, WA always has higher P/H…
That's cos the miners can easily afford it. ;)
Takes 3tb drives, add $600 and is a 12tb NAS. 90 watts power. Pretty good price regardless of throughput. Amazon reviews were not encouraging
Not for us… We just paid ~ $200 (each)
for some more flexible HP N40L (including:
o 2GB RAM
o 256 GB 7200 RPM hard drive
o space in the box for 4 more drive
. (or a CD-ROM drive + 3 more HD's)As they were sent as AusPost eParcels,
postage was negligible (far less than
either shipping fee in this "Deal").In fairness, a ReadyNAS would suit those
who want a single-function (NAS-only) box.We tend to change our minds…
when we do that, we'll just
swap (internal) USB memory-sticks,
& up will come another type of system. :-)[That's the hidden beauty of HP MicroServers!]
I know many people here loves their N40L. Not sure about this ReadyNAS but I love my Synology…
power consumption between a N40L and a readynas may also be a factor for some people (me, I'd go the N40L if i didn't just leave my main desktop on 24/7 anyway).
Talking of N40L's….. anybody know of any deals?
I finally caved in with the N40L.
I wanted mine to be quiet and low power consumption.This is what I did to it:
didn't like the sound of the fans, they were too loud, so i switched it with a Scythe Slip Stream for the large one, and the PSU Fan, switched with Sunon KDE1204PKV3 fan. Sitting from about 2-3 meters away from it, you can barely hear it now.
Chucked in a Sound Card, Asus Xonar DGX.
Used the internal graphics card as it is enough to do almost everything including HD Content.
Added 2x 2TB HDD and 1x SSD.
Average Power Consumption on Idle: 28W.
If you add a graphics card ATI 4540, it brings the power consumption to around 38W idle.
I use this now as my HTPC, Torrent Box, NAS and everything else I could think of.
Nice, you could also consider a pico-PSU…IIRC Stumo got some good results with his! :)
Last one was from Harris Tech for $200 pick up, no hdd included i believe
Megabuy have a good deal on the ML110 G7 - larger form than N40L, but i3 processor and a lot more room if you need.
Use Coupon code XLQDW1JLGSBK brings it down to $425 delivered. Not as cheap as a microserver, but a fair bit more grunt and space if that's what you need.
http://www.megabuy.com.au/hp-proliant-ml110-g7-series-server…
A Synology NAS is better than both, cheaper to run and NOT just a NAS.
Synology also costs double the N40L (comparing 4-5 bay models that can saturate GiG ethernet).
You won't see those power savings until the difference in upfront costs have been covered, probably 5-10 (didn't do the maths, sue me).
N40L doubles as a HTPC.
It all comes down to whether you have the time to learn/set up the N40L. But Synologies don't perform better.
I have one to this and it is reliable and easy to setup. However, I am unsure what to do in situation that the ReadyNAS hardware broke down (not the HD) and that I am not prepared to purchase another unit, how to I recover the data from the HD as it is not based on x86?
Restore it from your backup..?
but what if you ran as just storage only with no redundancy to maximise capacity
If it uses a standard format such a EXT4 it's possible to restore data using a linux machine such as Ubuntu.
you obviously don't care that much about your data..
no one should ever have just 1 copy of important data..
I have my 2 HD in Readynas proprietary x-raid redundancy that spans over the 2HD what chance will I have to hook it up to Ubuntu for data recovery?
watch out for these Netgear Readynas! I got the Readynas NV+ in the 10/7 deal here and installed the recommended 4 x 2tb western digitals (5.4tb usable on x-raid). In the last fortnite it just keeps disconnecting off the network. Impossible to put data on and take off i.e. copy or stream. Possibility of doing a reset at risk of losing over a 1tb over data. Yes, latest firmware (& reinstalled when it allowed) and Netgear router.
Solution? Fingers crossed till it works when I can get the data off then dump the thing.
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