yardley Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Hi guys, I've been looking around in search of a cheap storage solution and found the link below. Seems to be the cheapest I can find with everything else being a huge price jump. Is this product a good buy? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=231263065566&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:US:1123 Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Only you can decide if this meets your needs -- note that although it's got 15 storage bays for hard drives, it does not come with any drives ... so the real cost will be far more than what you'll pay for the chassis. You'll also need to buy an UnRAID license if you want to use more than 3 drives. Quote Link to comment
switchman Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Make sure the controllers support greater than 2TB drives, ie 3-4 TB drives. Quote Link to comment
yardley Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Only you can decide if this meets your needs -- note that although it's got 15 storage bays for hard drives, it does not come with any drives ... so the real cost will be far more than what you'll pay for the chassis. You'll also need to buy an UnRAID license if you want to use more than 3 drives. Thanks for the reply. Right now I just have a few external drives so my needs aren't too demanding. I just want something with a substantial amount of storage with some disaster recovery capability to store my media library and some of my personal files and Final Cut Pro projects. Is there anything you can see with the linked divide that would be problematic or you would advice against? Quote Link to comment
yardley Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Make sure the controllers support greater than 2TB drives, ie 3-4 TB drives. I think it only supports up to 2TB. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 That case alone is worth the asking price. I have three of them! Quote Link to comment
yardley Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 That case alone is worth the asking price. I have three of them! Just took a look at your rig, so it's pretty loud then? That could be a problem, the room this would go in is not climate controlled - it's very cold in the winter but no A/C in the summer. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 That case alone is worth the asking price. I have three of them! Just took a look at your rig, so it's pretty loud then? That could be a problem, the room this would go in is not climate controlled - it's very cold in the winter but no A/C in the summer. Yes! Especially if you leave the stock fans. I did not. I replaced them with much quieter fans, but its still quite loud. Quote Link to comment
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