Has anybody looked at one of these Thecus W4000 4-bay Cloud Ready Windows NAS? This may be what is replacing Home Server from Microsoft. OS is stored on a separate SSD card. The processor looks small but would probably work for a NAS. I would add 2 more gig ram since it would be cheap and Server 2012 would defiantly use it. I wonder if you can add a hardware RAID card?
Thecus W4000 4-bay Cloud Ready Windows NAS
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Since no RAID card I would not run RAID5. Four drives are not really enough for RAID5 any way in my opinion. Running a mirror or single drives should work ok if you up RAM to 4 gig. I don’t run any Windows PC without 4 gig now days any way as they seem clunky. I have a music server running Server 2012 with 4 gig and it runs fine. Server 2012 cost almost as much as this hardware device. It is a deal if you want to run Server 2012 with all the features of a true server. It is going to be more complicated than just running a plain NAS but much more robust as you have full server.
In my opinion you don't hit good write speed until 5 or 6 hard drives.
I should say I only run hardware RAID5. I don't believe in software RAID5.
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