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Building a NAS storage

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/building-a-nas-storage.151360/

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njathan Original post #1
Jan 14, 2012 at 2:22 PM
I have some old hard disk drives which are lying idle since my old PC hardware crashed to the point of no recovery. I am considering building a NAS storage from these for my home.

Any pointers on how to come up with one with minimal investment on new hardware?
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njathan #2
Jan 28, 2012 at 12:03 AM
Bump... Anyone tried this?
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whitestar_999 #3
Jan 28, 2012 at 2:17 AM
depends on how much you are willing to invest & what type of NAS you are aiming for.you can get a cheap intel dual core & a micro-atx mobo,put in a pci/pci-e gigabit lan card,install windows 7 on smallest hard disk & share rest of the drives over the network.
or you can run a dedicated RAID setup using an entirely new OS running from a pen drive.
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