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  1. Thanks for the reply. Yes is an old machine (socket 939 amd nforce ultra-d). I had the 4TB plugged in to an external dock but the start/stop count was getting crazy after about a week (in the thousands), I don't think it knew how to function in a dock so I unplugged it and exchanged it, wasn't sure if the drive was the problem or the dock. When the new one came in I plugged it in internally. I was able to format it and the system recognized it and I used it for a few days, but upon first reboot the system would not start. When I finally unplugged that drive the machine started as normal. I think I'll get a WD Red drive then. I started looking at enterprise because of the warranty and because they are supposed to be more reliable, but the Green's have even treated me fine. I'm most worried about a drive just dying and not sending any SMART errors first.
  2. I'm assembling a computer this weekend. I was originally going to build 2 computers, 1 home machine, and 1 server. Budget restraints have brought me down to just one machine, and I'm going to run DrivePool and have the pool be a share for several devices in the house. I currently have: 4TB Seagate NAS Drive (ST4000VN000, never used) 2TB WD Green (2 years old) 1TB WD Green (5 years old) 1TB WD Green (5 years old) All the drives are still working with no errors, but I was going take out the two 1TB drives and add another 4TB drive since they are at the 5 year mark. I was never able to use the 4TB seagate because my old machine wouldn't recognize the drive so I can't speak on it's reliability. Are there any drives that work better with DrivePool? I'm going to be duplicating most things, but reliability is important. I've looked in to enterprise drives but some reviews say they aren't desktop drives and shouldn't be used as such. This isn't technically a NAS even though other devices will be accessing the pool. The machine will be on 24x7. Should I go cheap with a green drive, a nas drive, or enterprise drive? Thanks.
  3. Thank you for the reply. A quick look on eBay shows I can get a WHS2011 disc/license for under $100, and I can do Windows 8 Pro easily. $400 for the 2012 R2 Essentials would blow my budget. I'll look in to the other options. Also, my mistake, I could have sworn I read that unRAID used the NFTS format ... my fault. That would take it out of the running I suppose. My speed issue came from reading that unRAID can have slow write speeds and recommends a cache drive if possible, and I've read a lot about slow transfer speeds for Synology devices especially with smaller files. From my understanding, DrivePool maxes your hardware speed, basically, which is good.
  4. I'm a bit new to NAS. I've been reading for weeks trying to figure out what to buy/build. I've narrowed my choices down to either buying a Synology, or building a mitx box and running either Unraid or an OS with DrivePool. Since DrivePool requires and OS that's another layer of semi-maintenance (updates, security, etc) but from what I've read DrivePool is also the fastest solution and, like Unraid, I like that everything is stored in NFTS (just in case). Whatever I build will just be for serving media files to HTPCs, documents/pictures/files to user PCs, and backing up files from user PCs to the box. If you were starting from scratch today and money wasn't an issue, what is the ideal OS for DrivePool and Scanner? Are they all basically the same or do some just "work better" with the software? I'm trying to get as maintenance free as possible, which is why I originally looked at Synology, but I read about how to recover data in the event you loose more than one disk and I'd prefer to stay with NFTS if possible, which brought me to DrivePool and Unraid. Thanks.
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