Hack it Build it

This is my DIY NAS

For the Build log go here

A Few notes about the build

The performance isn’t fast but more than enough for one user and I think the slightly slow performance is worth it for the quietness of the box which you can’t hardly here. 

To test the speed I ran 3 tests the first was to a copied a 1GB file to the NAS box 5 times the average time was 160 seconds, which gives a speed of about 6.25 mb per seconds

The 2nd Test I tried was copying 3 files each one about 400 MB the time where as follows

Write

1.23 GB 135 Sec’
1.22 GB 133 Sec
1.23 GB 140 Sec
1.22 GB 155 Sec
1.22 GB 155 Sec

Average write speed 8.77 MB per second

The 3rd Test I tried was copying the files off the NAS box

Read

1.23 GB 160
1.21 GB 165
1.23 GB 167
1.22 GB 167
1.12 GB 155

Average Read speed 7.56 MB per second
 

All the tests where ran over a cabled network. The CPU Load didn’t peak at over 59% and the temperature of the CPU didn’t go above 59oc

The Case needs a little tidying and a paint job but is functional at the moment