Category Archives: NAS

We already know we’re using one of those eBuyer value cases as a starting point. The first thing to do was strip out all the internals – we just needed the bare case. It was pretty simple to dismantle as … Continue reading →

First and foremost, I want to thank my friend Mat for helping with the design. I couldn’t have done it without you! As you will recall from , I had a second 4U case used only to house drives. This … Continue reading →

Most likely I found it on Engadget, but it did crop-up in quite a few other places. I am of course talking about the Backblaze blog post ‘Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage‘. When I found … Continue reading →

Wow, sorry for neglecting this series for so long – I got distracted by being employed! Hopefully, it’s not so long that I’ve forgotten my trail of thought. So at the end of my last post, I had four 1.5TB … Continue reading →

As promised, here’s my initial hardware for this NAS. Later posts will discuss how I went further and what hardware needed to change to accommodate. Motherboard A tough choice I had to make right at the beginning of the build … Continue reading →

When I started this NAS, I thought I was going to be using something like the Norco RPC-4020. This is a sever case with 20 hot-swappable SATA bays, so it’s an ideal form factor for a NAS. Having been made … Continue reading →

If you’ve got too many hard drives or other components connected to your computer, you may need a second power supply. In order to turn it on without connecting it to a motherboard you have to ‘jump’ it. It’s a … Continue reading →