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Build yer own #

By Mark 9 Posted Wednesday 17th June 2009 12:40 GMT

All of them are compromises.

DNS-323 #

By Andres Posted Wednesday 17th June 2009 14:04 GMT

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

Speed, thru'-put & bandwidth. #

By jake Posted Wednesday 17th June 2009 21:30 GMT

Rather than me re-inventing the wheel, see:

http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/overhead/

and

http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html

>1Gb #

By Andres Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 09:17 GMT

Errr..I of course meant 2X1Tb, not a massive 2x1Gb drives.

you're going about it the wrong way #

By Brutus Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 11:07 GMT

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.

QNAP NAS + USB drive backup #

By MattyB Posted Thursday 18th June 2009 14:37 GMT

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