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I was interested in creating my own home server so that I would be able to have the experience and convenience of owning a server. I was looking at couple different things and didn't know where to start. For one, I don't know whether or not I should

- Build a mid range system (efficient enough to maintain appropriate transfer speeds)
- Buy a high volume NAS (8TB) with advanced features and use a low end computer
- Buy a computer premade and just turn it into a desktop server


I do have media that I want to be able to access as well as computer images (ISO files) I may want to deploy on different systems to put myself in administrative position )possibly Norton Ghost?) I don't know which server application(s) I should be using as well. So what do you guys think?
 
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If you buy a NAS, 8TB is not that significant any more. A 4 drive NAS would be able to do that with either RAID10 or RAID5 with 4TB disks. A commercial NAS will be "ready to go" pretty much right out of the box (after formatting time). Synology, QNAP, and Thecus are the "big three" in home NAS. Asus has been making a challenge with the ASUSTOR units.

The vendors all have websites where you can test drive their software. To me the software suite is the most important thing if you choose to buy a NAS.
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If you buy a NAS, 8TB is not that significant any more. A 4 drive NAS would be able to do that with either RAID10 or RAID5 with 4TB disks. A commercial NAS will be "ready to go" pretty much right out of the box (after formatting time). Synology, QNAP, and Thecus are the "big three" in home NAS. Asus has been making a challenge with the ASUSTOR units.

The vendors all have websites where you can test drive their software. To me the software suite is the most important thing if you choose to buy a NAS.
 
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Interesting, so do you think NAS is the way to go instead of building a system from the ground up?
 
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I do. I like having it work on day 1 not on day 101. I have two Synology units at my house. I use Amazon Glacier as my off site backup directly from the Synology. Go to their website and test drive the software.
 
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The DLNA software on the commercial NAS units is pretty good. Many of them have enough CPU or specialized hardware for transcoding. It depends on what you are trying to do. Obviously if you want a tuner card and to record off the air, then you have to built your own.
 
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I see, DLNA support was something else I was concerned about because I have researched it and all I could find is that it was a standard for streaming media. I felt that it may be cheaper to just build one with an i3 but I just don't really know the pros and cons of each. From your last reply, it seems that desktop server may take a little longer to setup than out the box ready NAS. Are you able to deploy images (iso's) on NAS systems?
 
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If you can get to a file system either through SMB (CIFS) or NFS then you could use it as the repository. Even FTP could be an option. If it were me, I would google for people that are already using NAS as a repository. That should tell you. It is not a use-case that I have.
 
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