gazza285
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 09:04 PM |
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Recommend me a network storage device.
Not after much memory, 250G tops really, that I can hook up to my router and share files on. Cheap, reliable and cheap please.
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dhutch
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 09:15 PM |
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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.
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fov
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 09:18 PM |
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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.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 09:22 PM |
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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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gazza285
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 09:58 PM |
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quote:
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.
Tried that first, didn't find much. Thanks for your help though, have been on Amazon, reading loads of bad reviews about NAS.
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Keith Weiland
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 10:01 PM |
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An old pc, a 250gb hard drive and FreeNAS
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fov
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 10:05 PM |
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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.
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MikeR
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 10:11 PM |
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be careful with the maplin device - its damned slow reading / writing files.
I was hoping to stream music and it couldn't cope 
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austin man
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 11:20 PM |
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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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gazza285
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| posted on 19/3/09 at 06:51 AM |
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quote:
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.
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 19/3/09 at 07:19 AM |
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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...
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 19/3/09 at 07:22 AM |
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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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fov
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| posted on 19/3/09 at 08:20 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by gazza285
quote:
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.
Reliability, well you get what you pay for. I recommend Buffalo as they provide decent cooling and disk support. Heat being the biggest early killer
of drives. (Though you can get unlucky with and device)
Speed depends on your network. Ideal conditions would be wired lan. Wireless does tend to be a bit slow on large transfers (backups for example) but
perfectly useable for streaming or storing files to open etc.
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo - You wont go wrong with one of these.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 19/3/09 at 09:52 AM |
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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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britishtrident
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| posted on 19/3/09 at 01:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
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.
Most of these NAS boxes run on cut down Windows NT, which has Windows networking built-in so Samba isn't required to be visible to Windows or
other clients.. Only boxes running on non-MS firmware need Samba. FreeNas is BSD based so has Samba server ready set up.
[Edited on 19/3/09 by britishtrident]
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gazza285
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| posted on 19/3/09 at 06:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by fov
Ideal conditions would be wired lan.
NAS will be wired, as will the PC. Then got a lappy and a PC in the attic running wireless, can't see there being much of a transfer rate
problem. Thanks everyone, going for the Buffalo.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 22/3/09 at 06:16 AM |
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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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stevebubs
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| posted on 22/3/09 at 09:08 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Nearly all these devices run on a cut down Windows NT firmware, although it is well hidden.
??? Most of the ones I've seen use either Linux or BSD kernels...
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