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Title: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: egzbuen on Nov 05, 2015 at 10:28 AM

Guys, has anyone tried this setup before? WDTV or Egreat with two (2) Probox's (both 4-bay enclosures) attached to it, with both Probox having four (4) 4TB HDDs filled with content. Would this work?

My current setup is a Probox with four (4) 4TB HDDs filled with content, attached to my media player. Sometimes with the WDTV, sometimes with my Egreat. Now, I ran out of space. Thus, instead of selling my 4bay and getting an 8bay, it might be easier, not to mention, more cost effective, if I just get another 4bay. I dont think getting HDDs with capacities higher than 4tb is the more cost efficient route given their prevailing prices right now.

Thanks.   

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: egzbuen on Nov 10, 2015 at 01:40 PM

Anyone?

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: egzbuen on Mar 14, 2016 at 03:02 PM

up

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: flashDB on Mar 14, 2016 at 06:18 PM

My suggestion

Get a 4 bay NAS with external storage support and plug your probox to your choice of NAS.

Makes it all available in the network

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: comet on Mar 14, 2016 at 07:22 PM

sir flashDB what's a good 4bay Nas with external storage support?

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: flashDB on Mar 14, 2016 at 09:41 PM

Qnap or Synology. Not sure which model but for sure one of them has support for usb2/3 and esata. I got qnap ts220 2-bay with 2xusb3, 1xusb2, 2xesata.

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: egzbuen on Mar 15, 2016 at 01:35 AM

How much do they run for?

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: uvax on Mar 15, 2016 at 07:26 AM

I have been looking at NASes myself. Entry level 4-bay NASes from Synology, Qnap and also WD are in the 16k-18k range. You have a choice between the Synology DS416j, QNAP TS-431 and WD EX4. I'm leaning towards the QNAP except that I don't like the white color.

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: egzbuen on Mar 15, 2016 at 05:02 PM

Interesting, will read up on NASes.

Title: Re: WDTV and/or Egreat + Two (2) 4-bay Probox
Post by: flashDB on Mar 15, 2016 at 05:14 PM

got the 2-bay for 10k and 4 bays cost around 15-20k.  without HDDs

alternatively, you can use open souce NAS like FreeNAS and similar on your old hardware/pc