Hi All,
I apologise if this is a regularly-asked question - my search turned up several candidate threads, but clicking on each of them returned a "This thread does not exist" message...!
I'm looking for an always-on storage solution for home, accessible over the wireless network at all times, wired into the router. Ideally, it must be exceptionally low-powered when not being accessed - I'm definitely willing to put up with a long lag on first access in return for a standby mode with next to no power consumption. RAID is desirable, but not a requirement. I'm guessing that I'd want around 1TB of storage, although I'm also guessing the size won't be the problem. Am I better putting together the lowest power PC I can and running it as a fileserver, or getting an off-the-shelf NAS? The main problem with putting together a PC is probably the power requirements to have one on 24/7.
Is such a thing commercially available or do I have to design it myself? If the latter, any pointers on how to do it?
I apologise if this is a regularly-asked question - my search turned up several candidate threads, but clicking on each of them returned a "This thread does not exist" message...!
I'm looking for an always-on storage solution for home, accessible over the wireless network at all times, wired into the router. Ideally, it must be exceptionally low-powered when not being accessed - I'm definitely willing to put up with a long lag on first access in return for a standby mode with next to no power consumption. RAID is desirable, but not a requirement. I'm guessing that I'd want around 1TB of storage, although I'm also guessing the size won't be the problem. Am I better putting together the lowest power PC I can and running it as a fileserver, or getting an off-the-shelf NAS? The main problem with putting together a PC is probably the power requirements to have one on 24/7.
Is such a thing commercially available or do I have to design it myself? If the latter, any pointers on how to do it?