What NAS product or combination of NAS products would best suit the following home network requirements:
RAID 1 storage for important media, eg. photos, home video, etc with minimum capacity of 500GB.
RAID 0 storage for other media and backups, eg. TV recordings, DVD rips, music etc with minimum capacity of 2TB with the …
Does all of the above. I have had mine a year now without a squeak. It also has a built-in bittorrent client (if that is for you..) and it's price has come down a lot. I loaded mine with 2X1Gb Samsung drives for 1Gb of RAIDed safe storage.
See http://www.trustedreviews.com/networking/review/2006/11/20/D-Link-DNS-323/p1
Use RAID 1 for all of the data on the NAS and then burn all your valueable stuff (photos, wedding video etc) to optical of some description.
RAID != backup !!!!!
Personally I have a DNS-323, not bad really. Just make sure you update the firmware to whatever the latest version is before putting any data on it. Soem of the earlier releases did nasty things.
Personally I have a QNAP 209 with two 1TB drives, mirrored and then a seperate 1TB USB drive for a seperate backup (to protect against catastrophic failure of the QNAP). Good thing being that the QNAP has a one touch backup to USB drives so anytime I make a significant update to my video library I reconnect the USB drive and hit the backup button
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What NAS product or combination of NAS products would best suit the following home network requirements: RAID 1 storage for important media, eg. photos, home video, etc with minimum capacity of 500GB. RAID 0 storage for other media and backups, eg. TV recordings, DVD rips, music etc with minimum capacity of 2TB with the …
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Posted Wednesday 17th June 2009 13:02 GMT
Mark 9
Build yer own #
All of them are compromises.
Posted Wednesday 17th June 2009 14:34 GMT
Andres
DNS-323 #
Does all of the above. I have had mine a year now without a squeak. It also has a built-in bittorrent client (if that is for you..) and it's price has come down a lot. I loaded mine with 2X1Gb Samsung drives for 1Gb of RAIDed safe storage.
See http://www.trustedreviews.com/networking/review/2006/11/20/D-Link-DNS-323/p1
Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 08:04 GMT
jake
Speed, thru'-put & bandwidth. #
Rather than me re-inventing the wheel, see:
http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/overhead/
and
http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html
Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 09:33 GMT
Andres
>1Gb #
Errr..I of course meant 2X1Tb, not a massive 2x1Gb drives.
Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 12:41 GMT
Brutus
you're going about it the wrong way #
Use RAID 1 for all of the data on the NAS and then burn all your valueable stuff (photos, wedding video etc) to optical of some description.
RAID != backup !!!!!
Personally I have a DNS-323, not bad really. Just make sure you update the firmware to whatever the latest version is before putting any data on it. Soem of the earlier releases did nasty things.
Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 15:13 GMT
MattyB
QNAP NAS + USB drive backup #
Personally I have a QNAP 209 with two 1TB drives, mirrored and then a seperate 1TB USB drive for a seperate backup (to protect against catastrophic failure of the QNAP). Good thing being that the QNAP has a one touch backup to USB drives so anytime I make a significant update to my video library I reconnect the USB drive and hit the backup button
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