Tempest Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 I have been considering building a NAS, primarily so that I can pause XBMC in one room and then resume it in another. Obviously I would use it to backup important files as well. After doing some reading, it looks like UnRaid would be a cheaper alternative. It also appears to not have any drawbacks.Opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco1962 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 From a cost perspective overall it looks like a champ. It doesn't look to need as many HDDs as RAID5 to achieve the same or better results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansolo77 Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 UnRAID is the way to go if you want to have reliability and easy upgradability. I went with Windows Home Server for my needs. Mostly because I needed to have a Windows Platform for the server so I could Remote Desktop into it to troubleshoot, run Windows programs (like Serviio for streaming), run uTorrent, and have decent automatic backups of my client machines. If you just want a fileserver and have no need to run other things, UnRAID seems like the best option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted December 7, 2013 Author Share Posted December 7, 2013 Thanks guys! Having you confirm my thoughts makes me feel better about my decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adultery Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Having a NAS server is great btw. Nas4Free has been good to me so far, over 4 months of uptime and not a hiccup. :-)There's lots of stuff available here as well, including Transmission with a nice web interface, more than a few other additions and quite a few users who add things all the time, not to mention it's a portable OS if you choose to go that route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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