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Free drive offer and ReadyNAS Pro 6
Hi, I was looking a while ago at getting a ReadyNAS Pro 6 Diskless vs building our own NAS server, and the UK offer of the free 3x1TB hard disks swung it... however, I've just noticed the offer fin...
Well, I was looking at the 6 because I've already got 4x 1TB drives here, and would like to expand as I go along. The heftier CPU was certainly attractive too, for live transcoding of HD media to various media devices, amongst other things. But you might be right.
I was looking for quite a bit at building my own FreeNAS box out of a cheap recycled server - you can pick up an older dual dual core Xeon box with 16GB of RAM for next to nothing nowadays on eBay with the hardware recyclers - but there's something to be said for "it just works", albeit at a bit of a price premium.
I've worked out the drive cost is likely something around £150 (about $240) for reasonably decent drives, which is a bit of a punch in the gut when I realise I've missed out by 22 days.
I was looking for quite a bit at building my own FreeNAS box out of a cheap recycled server - you can pick up an older dual dual core Xeon box with 16GB of RAM for next to nothing nowadays on eBay with the hardware recyclers - but there's something to be said for "it just works", albeit at a bit of a price premium.
I've worked out the drive cost is likely something around £150 (about $240) for reasonably decent drives, which is a bit of a punch in the gut when I realise I've missed out by 22 days.
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