Just for the record, before building my own server I used a D-Link DNS-323 NAS. This was actually an interesting 2 bay device, with web management, multiple hard drive configurations (including mixed configuration, for example you can choose to have half of your drive space as a RAID 1 array and the rest in a JBOD configuration), user management with drive quotas, email alerts, power management, ftp access, UPnP server, download manager, USB print server port, backup software. Unfortunately the performance level is rather limited, topping at around 15 MB/sec on a gigabyte connection.
2012-06-10
2012-06-08
2012-06-04
The requirements
As always, the first thing to do is to establish your needs – the things you must have and the not so important “nice to have”-s. Is good to think in perspective but you also shouldn’t go overboard with features (or over budget).
Why do I need a home server?
Simply put, there isn’t just a single answer for this. It depends on your specific requirements.
A list of possible answers could be:
A list of possible answers could be:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)