[ale] DIY NAS vs Boxed NAS?

[Phil Turmel]

You can put something like that together yourself from a wide selection
of iTX mobos.  Cheap and power-efficient.  I ran one like that for
several years in a 1U 4-bay hot-swap case.  In that one, I populated the
single PCIe slot with a decent radeon graphics card for MythTV, but such
could have easily been an LSI SAS controller in a bigger box.

It was this enclosure:

http://www.idotpc.com/thestore/pc/ITS-1916H-1U-ITX-4-Front-Load-Hot-Swappable-Drives-Rackmount-Case-and-Bare-bone-Unit-p1114.htm

On 12/1/18 10:30 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> A fun revelation: I went to FreeNAS's website to look at the software
> and apparently iXsystems sells a "home" server ready to go.  So they're
> yet another boxed NAS source in addition to being the OS of choice for
> DIY.  A hybrid of the two options.  The case is nice, though, and has
> activity/status indicators for each drive, which seems to be something
> hard to find with ordinary cases.  They're using a fanless motherboard
> so there's at least a little noise reduction.  Looks like possibly an
> Atom as they're quoting only 17 Watts TDP and 80 Watts total when
> populated with eight drives.  The empty four bay is $1k and the eight
> bay is $1,350.