I was hoping to stream music and it couldn't cope
Not after much memory, 250G tops really, that I can hook up to my router and share files on. Cheap, reliable and cheap please.
Well, i cant compair it to anything else at all, but about 3-4 years ago when i had a rummage around we ended up with a buffalo and its done us proud
since then.
- Its been very non eventfull. But in a nas drive thats what you want!
Have a search too as this is the second time ive posted this on here so there atlease a few other threads on the topic.
Buffalo Linkstation. Top notch stuff really. Very reliable and a decent pricepoint (you can get a bit cheaper with other makes but personally
id splash an extra fiver to get the quality)
Or their USB drives are great too and dirt cheap if you dont need the network bit.
Have one of these with a Seagate 80GB ATA drive in it -- it has run 24/7 for the last 3 years and never missed a single backup.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=97390
Nearly all these devices run on a cut down Windows NT firmware, although it is well hidden. For more security Rather than using windows file sharing
my back ups are done via FTP --- the Windows desktops run the freeware program Cobian Backup as a background service.
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Originally posted by dhutch
Have a search too as this is the second time ive posted this on here so there atlease a few other threads on the topic.
An old pc, a 250gb hard drive and FreeNAS
In what respect?
Problems with NAS full stop of with specific hardware?
There is nothing at all wrong with NAS drives providing you have the rest of the infrastructure to support it. It will be rubbish over a weak wireless
link but with a decent network it is great.
be careful with the maplin device - its damned slow reading / writing files.
I was hoping to stream music and it couldn't cope
Just bought an Iomega media centre 500gig you can play through tv as it has Scart Av, HDMI play music through tv also acts as a standalone hard drive £99.00 from Comet
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Originally posted by fov
In what respect?
Problems with NAS full stop of with specific hardware?
There is nothing at all wrong with NAS drives providing you have the rest of the infrastructure to support it. It will be rubbish over a weak wireless link but with a decent network it is great.
Another one for Buffalo linkstation. Got 500gb one with bitTorrent built in. Handy if you download stuff and don't want the computer on all the time. Buffalo can also be accessed from internet and comes in Network or USB versions. Replacable fan too just incase. Not had any problems so far...
oh and has gigabit technology, so if you have gigabit network you get 1Gb transfer rates too.... which is a hell of a lot faster than 56mb over
wireless!!!
[Edited on 19/3/09 by Ben_Copeland]
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Originally posted by gazza285
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Originally posted by fov
In what respect?
Problems with NAS full stop of with specific hardware?
There is nothing at all wrong with NAS drives providing you have the rest of the infrastructure to support it. It will be rubbish over a weak wireless link but with a decent network it is great.
Reliability of the drives and speed of transfer mainly, for every good review of a product there seems to be a bad one as well, hence asking for views on here, people tend to be a bit more savvy on here than Joe Public.
When I was after one of these my brother made one recommendation, make sure its got 'SAMBA', which means easy connectivity without having to 'set' up a connection for each computer that wants to use it.
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When I was after one of these my brother made one recommendation, make sure its got 'SAMBA', which means easy connectivity without having to 'set' up a connection for each computer that wants to use it.
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Originally posted by fov
Ideal conditions would be wired lan.
Might be too late now but I've got my old pc running as network storage, added a whacking great drive in it and bingo. Not to difficult to set up either there's a home network wizard to run on every comp. Just make sure that for the network name you put the same name into them all and turn on sharing. Only problems I've had with it is the Vista laptops can't be accessed by the xp machines but I'm sure there's some fix for that somewhere it's just not a problem for me
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Originally posted by britishtrident
Nearly all these devices run on a cut down Windows NT firmware, although it is well hidden.