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I'm currently using a home-build WHS 2011 box; but unless you're severely cash constrained, want ZFS/Btrfs, or need more than 4 drives (this transitions you from SOHO to SMB and prices balloon as a result); I'd strongly recommend getting an enclosure from Synology or QNAP and spending the evening or two you'd've spent setting up a DIY NAS enjoying some ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) instead. If you just want a basic shared drive, one of the cheaper ARM based models will do fine. For heavy transcoding/light weight server duties/etc a higher end x86 model becomes worthwhile. Ganesh at Anandtech likes Synology's software for media streaming/etc best with QNAP in 2nd place (and everyone else well behind); but QNAP's recently added some light virtualization support to their x86 line. Not enough to be a remote dev box; but suitable for letting you install software not provided in their package manager without voiding your warranty by SSHing into the box and installing it via the CLI.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I use an old Win XP Dell laptop with a shared USB drive on it.
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I cannot afford a NAS but my parents can and wanted something along those lines so I found something for them, configured it for them, and stole around half of it's capacity for my own nefarious uses.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I wonder how that can happen : if the NAS is on your own subnet, how could someone access it ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The one my parents bought was by default available on the internet so you can access your stuff when out and about, and sync your mobile devices to it and so on.
Also by default the share area has no security on it, and if you know the url to go to things stored on that bit are publicly available.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I know most of the new packaged NAS's have optional VPNs, media servers and other such portals to allow access when you're away from home. The DIY solutions can include these things too.
Me being the semi-paranoid (realistic?) type I have all this stuff disabled on mine.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I have a couple of old Dell machines running XP with a mixture of USB3 & eSATA 2TB drives (10 drives for each server), 40TB total, although effectively only 20TB as everything has at least two copies. They store and serve my film, music and ebook collections as well as being my in-house backups for everything on my main machines and for each other. I looked into buying dedicated NAS devices but decided this was an excellent use for old PCs with gigabit network cards and some powered USB3 hubs.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No NAS for me. Instead, I simply use a server (Win2008) with shared drives, nothing fancy. At least two computers on the home network utilize synchronized folders for all development files. One of the computers is my laptop which only syncs twice a week, so that if anything goes awry, I always have a backup. Important server files (sql backups) are copied to an external drive. This has worked flawlessly for me for over a decade now. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Out of curiosity, but from what I have seen people are using HDs instead of SSDs in their NAS setups. Any reason not to use SSDs, especially in a RAID5 configuration?
Scratch that thought - just looked at the pricing, and it is clear that the SSDs just aren't big enough...
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Yes, the key is indeed the price ! Plus reliability : From what I have understood from the feesback, SSD are great, but crash without warning.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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No new poll on the home page, and no new XKCD since last Friday!
I'm getting withdrawal symptoms...
Or possibly I'm hungry. Could be either really...
[edit]Hurrah! Randall posts it at last: http://xkcd.com/1418/[^] - pity it's not one of his best...  [/edit]
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
modified 8-Sep-14 6:49am.
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It's 6 at the morning in Canada if I'm not mistake. What one can do at that hour of the day - drink coffee at most...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Code without interruptions?
The phone doesn't ring, most customers are asleep and not sending emails, ... it's called "me time"! 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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"Code without Interruptions"
Is that a variant of agile programming? I'd love to be able to adopt the concept.
Yeah, ask me about my weekend, last week, last month...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Code without interruptions...
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. "
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charlieg wrote: Is that a variant of agile programming
It's a variant of actual programming
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Ride my bike, and ride hard!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's the neutrinos! They're mutating!
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Oh sh*t!
They're heating up the earth's core and suddenly acting like microwaves!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Isn't Randall on his book release tour?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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No excuse! Our very own @Marc-Clifton is on a book release tour [virtual] but he still pops in with regular missives!
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This is true - but to be fair, he's not as funny!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Movie Quote Of The Day
The Shadow knows!
Which movie?
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The game of shadows
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