well, the only problem there is that you would ideally want to add a RAID card to the system for disk drive redundancy, added cost. Also, the ability to hot-swap drives exists here as well. This probably requires a special computer case for ease and maybe even some other extra cost for the RAID card? I don’t even know the specifics…Sometimes it’s just easier to spend less money and have something that is more or a plug and play option.
I personally would use the NAS for backups only…For a media server, I’d likely build.
I’m just going to toss a 2nd shitty computer on my lan, toss a couple 3 TB drives in it, and do nightly backups to it. Just waiting for the hard drive prices to come back down once the flood waters recede. Might even make it a linux box.
yeah, that was my plan…but shitty computer need to still be paid for…that makes $179 look appealing to me. If the ReadyNAS was any more expensive, it would be a different story. Also, it’s a PITA to be constantly logging into it and applying patches on a monthly basis.
If you’re like me you probably have the parts kicking around to build a shitty linux box without spending any money though (other than the 2 hard drives).
And who cares about patching it. It’s a backup machine that I probably won’t even give internet access to. Just give it wake on lan so once day it comes out of sleep to get files copied to it.
So lock the shitty backup machine down behind the firewall with no external access. Then the only hackers you have to worry about would be ones on your local network.
if somebody wants you bad enough to hack your firewall then they can probably hack your SAN also.
we’re just saying that a computer that can be a SAN is better for a home than a SAN that can’t be a computer. Especially if both solutions are close to the same price.
As far as my research goes, ReadyNAS hasn’t had too many published vulnerabilities for years. I am simply defending the statement that a backup NAS should not be left unpatched, no matter where on your network it is.
Like I said, patching is one of a few reasons why it’s a winner for me.
I never built a PC before so I’m not sure how much over my head I’m going to be. How come you didn’t get a dual tuner so you could record and watch something different?
Don’t worry about “building” one. Dropping a motherboard into a case, attaching a processor, fan, hard drive, video card, memory and power supply is really straight forward. Most of it is color coded and things that aren’t are keyed so they only fit one way.
Re: lack of dual tuner: Because I almost never use the tuner. It might as well have a Buffalo Bills logo on it because that’s pretty much the only thing I use it for. The way they’ve played lately I can probably go ahead and pull the tuner back out.
BTW… If you guys have significant others who constantly use the music channels on cable like my wife did, toss a shortcut to slacker.com in the quicklaunch and be done. My wife is in love with slacker.com now and keeps telling me how much better the mix is than the old fios music channels.
