A very expensive route if what Brian wants is two RAID 1s. It also needs two mains sockets and two network points.If you're wanting two separate arrays, then arguably getting 2 2-drive bays would be better.
A very expensive route if what Brian wants is two RAID 1s. It also needs two mains sockets and two network points.
I have to admit I wouldn't recommend DLink to my worst enemy and it doesn't meet the OP's requirements anyway as it only supports up to 3TB HDDs.You can get a 2 bay NAS very cheaply, as they often have a much smaller feature set (and have less need of the higher processing power that RAID 5 requires)
EG;
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/2-b...m_medium=cpc&gclid=COGC1uic9cwCFQuNGwodfN4NAw
So sub £100 for a pair.
A bare 4 bay NAS will (certainly from the suggested manufacturers) be over the £200 mark, leaving plenty to pay fro a gigabit switch and extension lead if you don't have points and sockets handy.
This Asustor unit is very good value. It's not the fastest - I have the 2-bay unit so I know - but it runs the same OS as every other Asustor NAS. An HP Microserver as suggested by digital, etc. would be cheaper and more powerful but you'd have to sort out your own OS for it.I have several hard drives of various decent capacities knocking around, all working. Is there a reliable, simple NAS base I could slot them into to give it all a go? I would use it for music streaming so I don't need the computer turned on all the time.