How much does it cost for a NAS (Network Attached Storage) unit and the hard disks to go inside it?
As of April 2010 the cost for the NAS that we have been using along with the recommended hard drives is approximately as follows: ReadyNAS Pioneer $1400 without hard drives (minimum number of hard drives to put in is 2maximum is 6) Western Digital 1TB RE3 hard drives are under $150 each or Western Digital 2TB RE4-GP hard drives (firmware version 04.05G05 or later) are under $300 each. For redundancy a minimum 2 hard drives is necessary to start. If you would like us to set up the NAS for you we charge a flat fee of $500 to install the hard drives, set up the software, and test it here with your music server. However if you are savvy with regard to NAS and networking this is something that you can do yourself. You also will need a gig ethernet switch and ethernet cables to hook up the NAS to the music server computer.
