I have a few of these around and I personally love them: Clicky
Some people have complained that you have to use the same Wester Digital disk as a replacement if one fails, but thats not that big of a deal for me. I can think of 3 of these guys that have been online for over a year now and have had no issues with them at all.
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I'm using Dlink DNS-323 (two bay) w/two 1 terabit drives Raid 1. Works great for my needs, although I find it abit slow if I'm downloading a full SD card of photos. Aside from that, it works great.
I looked into different options (building a NAS), and at the end of the day, I wanted something that worked out of the box. I went with Dlink strictly because I have Dlink routers, and I like the pricepoint.
Currently I'm looking at changing out the current setup so I can have a remote backup. Basically, I'm going to get a newer D-link (DNS-325 or DNS-345) and use this at my home, then at a remote location (my parents place), I will setup the old DNS-323, and it will be doing a scheduled backup of the new one at my place.
Lately we've been downloading the digital copies of movies (onto the NAS), and playing them through a Asus Oplay. Which is why I'm considering going to a 4 bay NAS. But we Also use the NAS for photos/videos ofthe kids, and this is what I want backed up automatically at another location (not the movies).
My next house, I will setup with a proper HTPC and NAS system (like pictured).
JN_B wrote: I'm using Dlink DNS-323 (two bay) w/two 1 terabit drives Raid 0. Works great for my needs, although I find it abit slow if I'm downloading a full SD card of photos. Aside from that, it works great.
I looked into different options (building a NAS), and at the end of the day, I wanted something that worked out of the box. I went with Dlink strictly because I have Dlink routers, and I like the pricepoint.
Currently I'm looking at changing out the current setup so I can have a remote backup. Basically, I'm going to get a newer D-link (DNS-325 or DNS-345) and use this at my home, then at a remote location (my parents place), I will setup the old DNS-323, and it will be doing a scheduled backup of the new one at my place.
Lately we've been downloading the digital copies of movies (onto the NAS), and playing them through a Asus Oplay. Which is why I'm considering going to a 4 bay NAS. But we Also use the NAS for photos/videos ofthe kids, and this is what I want backed up automatically at another location (not the movies).
My next house, I will setup with a proper HTPC and NAS system (like pictured).
RAID 0 provides no redundancy and doubles your chance of data loss due to hard drive failure. i hope you have a backup solution in place for this unit
if you find transferring pictures from a sd card slow, its prolly the sd card holding you back, otherwise you have serious problems with your nas
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how's the electrical bill?
Not too bad, but it does put off a decent amount of heat in that room. The noise would be a big problem if I didn't have a dedicated room for it. I don't have all of the bays full (1TB, 2TB, 9 500G, and an 80G operating system drive). When I started the 500GB drives were the best $ per gigabyte, but now if any drives go bad I am going to replace them with either 1 TB or 2 TB drives. I have had it up for over 5 years and have only lost, 1 drive if I remember correctly. Not bad really.
Chris Bryant wrote: Just remember that if you have something that *must* be backed up, you need an offsite solution as well.
Not necessarily. What I do is use a drive, and then after it is full, I copy it and remove it and store it in a fireproof safe. Before the offline copy, I always have the data on a minimum of 2 physically separate PCs, that way if a major hardware failure occurs, I won't loose any of my data.
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At home...6 computers. 3 desktops, 3 laptops. 5 running various versions of Mac OS X 10.5.8 - 10.7.3 (PPC & Intel Macs), one laptop running Windows 7 Professional (used only to run proprietary astronomy applications and firmware update applications for astronomy hardware).
2.0TB + 2.0TB "Quad Interface" Hardware RAID-1
(Mirrored) Data Redundant Solution
Mac / PC / eSATA / FireWire 800 / FireWire 400 / USB 3.0, 2.0 & 1.1
Only raw financial data is routinely backed-up onto removable media and stored in a fire safe (nothing else is considered "irreplaceable").
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I have 2TB in an unRAID box.Made it out of and old computer. Unraid.com- free version uses 3 drives- up to $99 for more drives. Also have a 1TB Western Digital GoFlex, and a 16g flash stick that plugs into the router. I can hit the GoFlex and the flash from everywhere...
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