![]() Well you already summarized my thoughts in your last paragraph. Ultimately it comes down to, epeen vs common sense and budget. This is a huge mind dump, and I hope I laid it out clearly enough to get some feedback from the community. Or, do I get a prebuild Western Digital diskless NAS like the EX4100 and populate it with a mix of drives I already have and purchase some more matching ones?.I have a hodgepodge of other 1TB and 2TB drives, nothing else matching really. I already have a 4TB Red in my desktop, just get a second 4TB Red, Raid 1 them for redundancy, setup my desktop in the corner/closet headless and share the drive in Windows with the Laptop.The most budget friendly and maybe easiest one, but doesn't give me access outside my LAN.I picture setting up FreeNAS + ownCloud on this, which should hit both my criteria points above.I could probably get away with 2TB total storage, so for budget if I got (8) 500 GB drives in a Raid 10 i could probably make that work.At that point, will an Embedded solution be satisfactory - or do I need to go beefier on CPU power?.Would onboard controller suffice or at that point am I really looking at needed a dedicated controller card?.I'd likely go SATA III 2.5" drives, unless I can get SAS 6gbps 10k/15k drives for cheap. ![]()
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