Hello all. I'm new to the home NAS scene. I'm starting to assemble my hardware and reading all the post on building. I have IT experience but have been pushing more paper for the last five years then getting into the actual building. My goal is to set up a home NAS for movies, music and photo's. I'm going to be using XBMC to access my movies and tv shows. I'm hoping to have sickbeard set upon it as well. I will be running backups for three Mac's and one PC. Any tips you would like to pass on will be greatly appreciated. One question I had is it better to a SSD then mem stick? I can pickup a 60 gb SSD for $70. I will be starting with 3 2 TB drives is this sufficient ordo I require more drives.
Okay hardware I have so far:
Case: BitFenix Prodigy Midnight Black Edition Mini-ITX (BFC-PRO-300-KKXSK-RP)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=6_631&item_id=049443
HDD: 3 X WD Red (WD20EFRX) 2TB SATA3 64MB Buffer NAS Hard Drive
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_1086_210_212&item_id=050753
PS: Corsair Builder Series Modular CX430M 430 Watt 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply (CP-9020058-NA)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=33_442&item_id=056809
OS Drive: Patriot Element 16GB Aluminum USB 3.0 Flash Drive (PSF16GLSEL3USB)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=11_180_632&item_id=055470
Still looking at which Mb/CPU/ram combo. So far been looking at this.
ASRock E350M1/USB3 AMD E-350 APU (1.6GHz, Dual-Core) AMD A50M Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo and buying 16gb of ram.
Okay back to reading the forums.
Thanks for any help
Okay hardware I have so far:
Case: BitFenix Prodigy Midnight Black Edition Mini-ITX (BFC-PRO-300-KKXSK-RP)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=6_631&item_id=049443
HDD: 3 X WD Red (WD20EFRX) 2TB SATA3 64MB Buffer NAS Hard Drive
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_1086_210_212&item_id=050753
PS: Corsair Builder Series Modular CX430M 430 Watt 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply (CP-9020058-NA)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=33_442&item_id=056809
OS Drive: Patriot Element 16GB Aluminum USB 3.0 Flash Drive (PSF16GLSEL3USB)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=11_180_632&item_id=055470
Still looking at which Mb/CPU/ram combo. So far been looking at this.
ASRock E350M1/USB3 AMD E-350 APU (1.6GHz, Dual-Core) AMD A50M Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo and buying 16gb of ram.
Okay back to reading the forums.
Thanks for any help