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Alright so I am looking for a decent [cheap] NAS box for our backups. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any and/or present any comments about some they have used.
I have been looking at some of the lower end solutions from Iomega, Tritton, QNAP, WD, and others. It seems that a lot of them offer empty boxes that you get the drives separately. This does not seem too bad, drives are cheap right?
I am looking to get something around 1TB ideally either in a RAID 5 or 1 config (at least 3 drives or 2 respectively)
I will be using this in a Windows environment (with Backup Exec.)
Anyone have any thoughts on these?
Thanks in advance.
-Tony
I have been looking at some of the lower end solutions from Iomega, Tritton, QNAP, WD, and others. It seems that a lot of them offer empty boxes that you get the drives separately. This does not seem too bad, drives are cheap right?
I am looking to get something around 1TB ideally either in a RAID 5 or 1 config (at least 3 drives or 2 respectively)
I will be using this in a Windows environment (with Backup Exec.)
Anyone have any thoughts on these?
Thanks in advance.
-Tony
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Re: Cheap NAS box
Mon, March 10, 2008 - 4:42 PMStay away from the Buffalo NAS servers... Everyone one I know that has gotten them have regretted it... Especially in business network settings you get a lot of write errors. -
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Re: Cheap NAS box
Wed, March 12, 2008 - 2:37 PManother option to look at if you have a couple of older computers laying around gathering dust:
www.freenas.org/
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Re: Cheap NAS box
Wed, March 12, 2008 - 2:02 PMI attempted using a simple Iomega NAS (2 500GB SATA drives in RAID 1) ... and it never performed. *Then* I went to see if anyone else had issues ... go figure ... the forums were rich with comments like "doesn't work", "too slow, even when it does work", etc.
This was also using Backup Exec.
I have found that it's just easier to stick with USB external drives for the time being, and duplicate to tape. I'm not sure of your application or need so that's all I can give you at this time.
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Re: Cheap NAS box
Wed, March 12, 2008 - 2:06 PMThis is not a NAS box, but I just bought this:
www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/it.A/id.3126/.f
It allows you to set up a RAID and supports FW800. One could serve that disk from one computer over a network, for access by other computers. Not the same thing as a NAS, but you can achieve comparable functionality I suppose. -
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Re: Cheap NAS box
Thu, March 13, 2008 - 5:34 PMWait, wrong product. This is the one I meant:
eshop.macsales.com/item/Oth...W924AL2K/
It works for both macs and PCs.
Sorry for any confusion.
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Re: Cheap NAS box
Fri, March 14, 2008 - 11:16 AMthe netgear ReadyNAS is pretty good. the Iomege product Sucks (something about their network chips doesn't get good speed)
otherwise I build one out of 4 hard drives, a mac cube and one of these
cgi.ebay.com/4-BAY-FIREW...cmdZViewItem
it's been up and running now for 9 months. not the greatest through put ever, but works pretty well
taz
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