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bbwannabe · 06-08-2011, 01:30

I have multiple hard drives that I have recently placed inside a new PC case, currently holding 11, and 1 IDE DVD drive. Anyone familiar with NAS, can they post a link to the various ones out there. I know of unraid, and freenas, but would like to try the others to see which is the best for my needs.

Would I need to add new empty drives to a setup or can the OS detect an existing hard disks contents? I don't want to spend days copying old data to new drives just so that it'll work.

Can I share all drives to a network with having to give all the drives a unique name? Sharing files under WinXP and Win 7 is ridiculously tedious when you have as many drives as I do.

Any recommendations for SATA controller cards? 4 ports ideally?. The only one I'm seeing that is fairly reasonable is from startech.

Most of the ports on the router are occupied by ethernet wires to other computers. If I wanted to setup a NAS but there aren't anymore free ports, would I need to look into a router with more ports or is there a way to expand it?

Thanks for any replies you can offer.

06-08-2011, 01:30	#1
bbwannabe Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Age: 41 Posts: 567	NAS Questions I have multiple hard drives that I have recently placed inside a new PC case, currently holding 11, and 1 IDE DVD drive. Anyone familiar with NAS, can they post a link to the various ones out there. I know of unraid, and freenas, but would like to try the others to see which is the best for my needs. Would I need to add new empty drives to a setup or can the OS detect an existing hard disks contents? I don't want to spend days copying old data to new drives just so that it'll work. Can I share all drives to a network with having to give all the drives a unique name? Sharing files under WinXP and Win 7 is ridiculously tedious when you have as many drives as I do. Any recommendations for SATA controller cards? 4 ports ideally?. The only one I'm seeing that is fairly reasonable is from startech. Most of the ports on the router are occupied by ethernet wires to other computers. If I wanted to setup a NAS but there aren't anymore free ports, would I need to look into a router with more ports or is there a way to expand it? Thanks for any replies you can offer.