Why are 4-disk NAS's so expensive?

Akson872012-12-28 01:48:23

Do it yourself

Akson87, 2012-12-28 01:48:23

Actually the question is in the title. Why do 4-disk NAS's cost like a good desktop? Especially, it concerns productive models. Is there something special about them that I don't see, are they considered server hardware, are they very low volume stuff or do the manufacturers just want black caviar instead of red?
Amazon shows prices around $300-800 without discs.

What is the advantage of a NAS over a small desktop? I see the size (not such a big difference today) and power consumption (not so obvious either). What else?

Thanks in advance for your replies and Happy New Year everyone!

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8 answer(s)

track, 2012-12-28
@track

It's not that they are expensive, it's the one-two-disk ones that are cheap :) Because one-two-disk ones are considered consumer electronics, and artificially low prices are maintained for it. But systems with more than two disks are already considered pro, which means that you can throw on them the money that was artificially thrown off from one-two disks so that the manufacturer can maintain profitability.
Se la vie.

Ivan Arxont, 2012-12-28
@arxont

At one time I came to the conclusion that it is better to take HP Microserver :) And cheaper, and more functions

sl_bug, 2012-12-28
@sl_bug

I don’t understand myself :) I came to the conclusion that it would be easier to assemble it myself. In addition, I do not want 4 screws. So far I have found such a case for 8 screws - market.yandex.by/model.xml?modelid=8309778&hid=91028

Antonio43, 2012-12-28
@Antonio43

There is an alternative.
Synology can now be run on any x86, self-assembled hardware.
forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=20661&start=330#p310031

Nesvet, 2012-12-28
@Nesvet

He himself looked and looked at them and collected his own. On FreeNAS . Case Fractal Design Array R2 (for 6 hard drives + 1 2.5"; but can be much cheaper), motherboard ASUS E45M1-I DELUXE (5 SATA 6 Gbps; you can pick up a cheaper model). 8 GB more RAM (because ZFS in RAIDZ2, it needs one gigabyte per terabyte of space).

SFx, 2012-12-28
@SFx

I thought before, I decided that when the mood arises, I will buy a case for a DVD duplexer (there is such a tower for 12 or 24 5.25" bays) and I will stuff it like such things
, I will insert some expensive hardware RAID cards and I will stuff a small UPS inside)
then I figured that I was dofiga with this I'm going through, I took the Synology DS1812+ to the eyeballs, stuffed with 3TB of screws and I'm happy))) I won't have enough space, there is a resource for expanding by another 10 screws.

iZENfire, 2012-12-29
@iZENfire

I currently have 5 drives installed in my Foxconn Micro-ATX case (only one of which is 3.5"). You can make room for three more 2.5" HDDs by placing two of them in the bay where the DVD recorder is now located, and one additional one in the second FDD bay (now instead of a FDD | card reader there is a 2.5" HDD and there is still space nearby).
In the Micro-ATX case, the main basket of hard drives can accommodate only 4 3.5" HDDs, but due to the use of small-sized hard drives you can increase the number of carriers several times.

Evgeny Bezymyannikov, 2013-01-02
@psman

market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=7845086&hid=91028
+ mother with processor + memory - without disks it was 20 thousand, but on the i5 processor 2500k and 16 gigs of memory (ESXi is free)
It rests, of course, on the network only. 2 disks were thrown into one virtual machine, a soft raid was made and a file washer was installed on it.