{"id":20,"date":"2010-05-14T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-05-21T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T16:49:53","slug":"my-nas-server-2-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2010-05\/my-nas-server-2-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"My NAS Server 2 (Part I) &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout this series of posts, I&#8217;ll be describing the specifications of my home network-attached storage server (NAS). Before I get to the details in later posts, I&#8217;m first going to set out what I&#8217;m trying to achieve.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mass storage<\/strong> &#8211; I suppose this is the most important reason for the server. I want to have enough space for all my media.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cheap<\/strong> &#8211; Well maybe not &#8216;cheap&#8217; but from my perspective, at least &#8216;good value&#8217;. The original point of the server was to get the cost-per-gigabyte below that of external hard drives. With the added benefits of a NAS over a USB\/FireWire drive, this becomes less important.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Easily expandable<\/strong> &#8211; With hard drive prices ever decreasing, I want to be able to add space when I need it &#8211; not all up-front.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redundancy<\/strong> &#8211; Now, we all know that RAID is not a backup, but for my purposes, it will suffice. I don&#8217;t want lose all my data if one HDD dies, but the data isn&#8217;t important enough to make a separate copy elsewhere. It&#8217;s my experience that hard drives rarely fail beyond being able to get data off them, so if I have to spend a bit of effort recovering data and the rest of the data ins&#8217;t available while I go about this &#8211; no big deal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Online<\/strong> &#8211; What&#8217;s the point of storing a load of media if you have to faff about in order to access it? I know a lot of people go about it this way, and it is certainly the cheapest, but it also bring about my last point&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Easily manageable<\/strong> &#8211; By this I mean I don&#8217;t want to have to keep track of where what is. That is to say, the less &#8216;volumes&#8217;, the better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You might be wondering why this post is titled <em>My NAS Server <strong>2<\/strong><\/em>. Well, I&#8217;m actually going to be writing about my second NAS. I&#8217;ll take the opportunity to write about the experiances of my first NAS in the next post, which should give you some brief insights into how I arrived here, and the reasons behind some decisions I may overlook later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout this series of posts, I&#8217;ll be describing the specifications of my home network-attached storage server (NAS). Before I get to the details in later posts, I&#8217;m first going to set out what I&#8217;m trying to achieve. Mass storage &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2010-05\/my-nas-server-2-part-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}