NAS questions

[sabre364]

Hi, I am a new member and apologize if I am not posting in the correct forum.

I am looking to purchase a NAS primarily for the use of sabnzbd/sickbeard and general data storage/backup.  I basically narrowed it down to synology units for the best sabnzbd use with teh dsm software.  I will be pairing the NAS with a zotac mag (not yet purchased) running xbmc connected to an hdmi receiver and my tv.

I am having trouble figuring the performance of the Synology ds411j (the budget model) with a 1.2 ghz- dont know details- processor but only 128mb of soldered ram.  On the other hand the ds410 is a more full featured device with esata, 1.0 ghz processor but 512mb of ram.  I assume synology will soon release the ds411 model but not sure when so I am not focusing on that.

I know some of you have synology models, how is the performance a) downloading and b) extract/repair?  Hopefully some one has experience with these specific models.


And on a side note: for a 4 bay unit what would you guys use, pairs of drives in raid 1?  or 2 and eventually upgrading to 4 total in raid 5...the tricky part there is teh incremental addition of drives could theoretically lose data which i dont have another large nas to backup lol.


I look forward to being a member of the community, I have a lot to learn with ubuntu and setting up my htpc/xbmc etc but it should be well worth it.

[shypike]

SABnzbd is a rather heavy application.
Make sure you have 256M or more memory (the more the better).
Also realize that par2 repairs are very CPU hungry.
If it's betweem 1.0GHz/512M and 1.2GHz/128M, pick the one with the most memory.
128M is not suited for SABnzbd.

[sabre364]

SABnzbd is a rather heavy application.
Make sure you have 256M or more memory (the more the better).
Also realize that par2 repairs are very CPU hungry.
If it's betweem 1.0GHz/512M and 1.2GHz/128M, pick the one with the most memory.
128M is not suited for SABnzbd.

Thanks for the reply, I was pretty much leaning towards the ds410 model, I may wait to see if they release a newer one in april since prices are pretty much stable (even looking back to the ds410 release last year over the older ds409).

I think the first step will be purchasing the zotac or acer revo and a new receiver (looking at the denon 591 - $350, not on sale anywhere unfortunately) as my roommates crappy sony doesnt have hdmi and only one optical that we use for the ps3.