I am trying to put together a NAS that can hold 4 or more drives but I seem to only find ones that hold 2. Is there some sort of limitation on this? I have never done this before but I have a lot of drives lying around and want to create a NAS to hold my music and video. Any ideas?

I have the Thecus N5200... As far as NAS' go it is quite fast. Supports up to 5 drives with the ability to expand/migrate your RAID. The interface is not the nicest, but once you are up and running all is well. I did have difficluties with it at first... It seems that it did not get along with the DHCP server on my Router. Not a whole lot of product support from the company. These forums have been great though.

I have a 5 drive raid 5 array with 500 gig drives and I get around 1.8TB of usable space.

I am trying to put together a NAS that can hold 4 or more drives but I seem to only find ones that hold 2. Is there some sort of limitation on this? I have never done this before but I have a lot of drives lying around and want to create a NAS to hold my music and video. Any ideas?

You'll need to clarify the question. By "putting together a NAS", do you want a "just put drives in and it's a NAS" or "add drives, motherboard, CPU, memory, sw, etc and it's a NAS"?

If the former, try Thecus, Infrant, Buffalo, etc.

If the latter, you are simply talking about a case and there are thousands of those out there.


Bill