Synology DS414 + 4x WesternDigital RED 4 TB HDD $1.7k

So my new gadget for the month is a brand new NAS. Yes yes yes! i have finally chuck that old Buffalo NAS i bought 3 years ago and gone with the state of the art Synology brand. And yes the main use of it is to store my humongous collection of Japanese porn. Lets face it, all men love porn! bent men like gay porn, straight like straight porn.

the DS414 comes with 1MB Ram and an Intel Armada processor, technically it is like a stand alone PC with processing power so it can continue it's multitude of function when you turn your PC off. NAS can host stuff like your website, your e commerce site, your directory server, mail server, open ERP, DDNS and the list just goes on. But hey! mine is only there to host porn and nothing else! maybe some movie too but heck!

My set up is 4 bay on 4 Western Digital 4TB RED HDD which means i am on 16 TB of storage. However after running RAID, i am probably down with 10-12TB. So whats RAID? For the uninitiated, RAID is a type of file system used to control multiple HDD which have failure recovery option. This means if 1-2 of your 4 HDD fail, you can simply replace the HDD and the RAID system will rebuild your data! No more sacrificing your porn! or backing up your external HDD! 

Having NAS on Raid is simply the gold standard for a porn library. the next step would be to upgrade your NAS using full SSD. the budget for that would be around $5.6k base on current prices. My current set up with HDD is a mere $1.7k, but of course SSD never breaks down because it has no moving parts and the speed is 30 times faster than your 7200RPM HDD assuming your SSD is a samsung PRO series

Behold the PORN infrastructure!