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I am considering purchasing a NAS but am not sure if I actually need one. Here are my needs. I currently have a server setup for a whole mess of things, socks proxy, vpn, media server, cloud server (owncloud), backups.. it has a raid 5 setup of 3x1.5TB hdds. I keep all my content on the raid array. My desktop is a kickass 16GB AMD 6-core box I am looking to convert into a virtualization server (not sure which platform yet. esxi or proxmox or virtualbox). I would like to turn my current physical server into a vm aswell as build other vms for testing/learning purposes. I was content on going with local storage for the virtual server build until I started researching it. Would nas storage be sufficient enough for this project? Could I store all of my media on it as well as use it for virtual machines or would it be wicked slow? Looking for ideas
I am considering purchasing a NAS but am not sure if I actually need one. Here are my needs. I currently have a server setup for a whole mess of things, socks proxy, vpn, media server, cloud server (owncloud), backups.. it has a raid 5 setup of 3x1.5TB hdds. I keep all my content on the raid array. My desktop is a kickass 16GB AMD 6-core box I am looking to convert into a virtualization server (not sure which platform yet. esxi or proxmox or virtualbox). I would like to turn my current physical server into a vm aswell as build other vms for testing/learning purposes. I was content on going with local storage for the virtual server build until I started researching it. Would nas storage be sufficient enough for this project? Could I store all of my media on it as well as use it for virtual machines or would it be wicked slow? Looking for ideas