I don't know why you have a ton of data I mean maybe your wife for GF or hubby
your kid is a huge photography nerd
maybe you're the world's worst let's player who needs to record hours of
footage to salvage 3 minutes of entertaining content or maybe you have a
100 monkeys tied up in your basement typing away 24/7 at keyboards hoping to
reproduce the entire works of William Shakespeare I don't care whatever the
reason is you're looking for a better way to expand your storage safely and
that is what this video is
about Intel brings ddr4 to the mainstream with their core i7 6700k and
core i5 6600k processors check out the
link in the video description to learn more so the way most people expand their
storage is by buying a hard drive and putting it into their computer tower
wrong if you need a fast way to expand
your steam Library sure but for bulk
storage of things like photos or videos this is pretty much guaranteed to be a
crummy way to do it in the longer term consolidating your storage in a Nas or
network attached storage device makes it easier to share and if you have multiple
devices like a desktop and a laptop it helps avoid that nightmare of where did
I put that file or where did I put that one without r ring on cloud storage
Services which can get very expensive with higher capacity plans not to
mention the trust issues that some people have with giving somebody else
their sensitive data for safekeeping on top of that even basic networking
equipment these days can handle over a 100 megabyte pers second transfer speeds
meaning that even 4K video editing across a network is easy as p with the
right workflow the main problem with network attached storage is that the
consumer grade stuff sucks the single
drive or two Bay stuff sucks because
it's slow and offers little to no redundancy that is protection from Drive
failures and the 4 Bay and up stuff
sucks because the affordable ones are slow with limited functionality while
the good ones are so expensive you might as well just buy a computer to do it and
that's ignoring the with some exceptions generally crappy intuitive management
software so enough about the problem then let's talk about the solution we've
been diving into more and more server grade stuff on the channel lately for a
number of reasons number one I find it interesting deal with it number two
whether it's higher capacity RAM or ssds
or many core CPUs it's a reflection of
the technology that will trickle down into consumer grade gear in the future
which I find interesting deal with it and and number three which ties in
closely with number two old server stuff
can be incredibly cheap while offering the same functionality or better than
what a general consumer would be able to buy on the Shelf today so it's time to
hit up good old eBay I found that buying
a cheap already built computer is a good way to both ensure the compatibility of
all the parts you're getting and save a few bucks versus buying individual
components but your mileage may vary so any cor I3 based machine will be
powerful enough for all but the heaviest Nas use and will sip power relative to a
more featureful processor ensure that the included motherboard and power
supply are standard ATX and check the
motherboard product page to ensure that it has gigabit Lan from there if you
just want a couple of discs and you don't mind fussing with internal cables
whenever you want to expand you can add either a free nasos like rock store or a
paid one like the one that we use at lonus Media Group on raid for like 60
bucks and you're actually sort of good to go I mean it'll be a bit of an ey
sore but hopefully the money you saved will help heal that wound because a dual
core class Nas boox off a retail shelf would cost two times as much or more but
if you want something then that more closely resembles the pre-built Nas
experience I've got some tips there too first you'll want to change out that
case eBay to the rescue again here search for hot swap case and you'll come
up with all kinds of options that should suit your needs this chenbro refurb that
I found while writing this looks perfect for us standard ATX motherboard
compatibility and up to eight Drive sleds power supplies can be a little
tricky with these rack mount style cases this one's a 2u and not all this stuff
is super standard but with some double-sided tape or hot glue this one
could be made to fit quite easily and is Affordable if you find something
like this six Drive ready bundle you actually won't even need to worry about
the power supply or this next step but most of the cases you'll encounter
will'll need power supplies and we'll use sff 887 SAS connectors for their hot
swap back planes which leads us finally to the original inspiration for this
video my search for a cheap storage card
for my personal Home Server upgrade now I had thought that I could repurpose an
old raid card but what I discovered is that for proper monitoring and smart
reporting that is the health of your drives hbas or host bus adapters with no
raid functionality just ports to plug into work much better than raid cards
because most and there are some exceptions raid cards even in jbod or
HBA mode will not behave completely
transparently which can be an even bigger problem for os's that require be
Drive access like frz the issue is that
affordable hbas either use normal SATA
connectors making them unsuitable for use with a back plane or they're made by
brands that I frankly wouldn't put my important data anywhere near so I ended
up following alpen wasser's guide on the lineus tech tips Forum to pick up some
cheap cables and a super affordable LSI
raid card model the 9211 8i on eBay
again that supports eight drives and can be flashed to something called it mode
to make it behave exactly like an HBA
after the flash all the smart monitoring data showed up perfectly and for $500 or
much less if you have some parts lying around to reuse or you don't mind
sacrificing some power efficiency by using even older Hardware from a thrift
shop like free geek we've got ourselves a wicked box to put in the closet that
depending on the operating system you choose uh but we actually accounted for
some budget for unraid can do so much
more than an off-the-shelf Naz not to mention the nearly unlimited
upgradeability down the line I mean try
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