Do I need NAS?

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Not at all sure about this subject...I have an interal 500GB HDD, is there a way, so that when I save stuff internally, another 'copy' is automatically saved externally. Not sure, but is this what NAS achieves.....

I was browsing this page at Buffalo Technology and it reads "RAID 1 Mirroring Mode"; to me that sounds like something I could utilise.

All help appreciated ;)
 
NAS is just Network Attached Storage meaning simply some storage attached to your network, be that a 1GB pen drive stuck into your router or a hard drive or cluster of hard drives.. basically anything on your netowkr can, if properly configured, see that storage as a drive.

There isn't any mirroring/auto backup as standard.

The Buffalo drive you have linked has INTERNAL mirroring capability via RAID 1 meaning it has 2 drives inside the NAS box that can be mirrored or seen as one big lump of storage.

I haven't seen anything that backs up automatically, more to the point it would make your pc run like a dog if it copied everything in real time.

You could quite easily attach a NAS drive to your router and then use something like allway sync like I do where you can have configurable, schedualised backups of individual files/folders/entire drives.. in which case you could have a 500GB NAS attached to your router with a schedulised sync of the C: drive running at 4am every morning which would achieve what you want.

Wow.. what a ramble! :)
 
matt100 said:
You could quite easily attach a NAS drive to your router and then use something like allway sync like I do where you can have configurable, schedualised backups of individual files/folders/entire drives.. in which case you could have a 500GB NAS attached to your router with a schedulised sync of the C: drive running at 4am every morning which would achieve what you want.
Wow.. what a ramble! :)
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That helps! So the NAS drive could either be that Buffalo majig for example or any other external HDD? My current setup means my computer is attached to the router via ethernet for inter purposes, I can also connect a hdd directly to the router via ethernet?!
 
May I ask a question.

Are NAS drives any good for streaming media on a 360?

I was thinking on getting one to save on having my pc switched on all the time when streaming media.
 
qqg3 said:
That helps! So the NAS drive could either be that Buffalo majig for example or any other external HDD? My current setup means my computer is attached to the router via ethernet for inter purposes, I can also connect a hdd directly to the router via ethernet?!
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well not any other hard drive, you'll need one with ethernet on it which is why NAS boxes tend to be much more expensive

Wiggins said:
May I ask a question.

Are NAS drives any good for streaming media on a 360?

I was thinking on getting one to save on having my pc switched on all the time when streaming media.
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I don't know, I wouldn't have thought so.. you'll need some software for the xbox to talk to surely? I mean you normally get some sort of software on the NAS so you can leave it downloading on its own (iirc, I use mine as a fairly dumb terminal)
 
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Wiggins said:
May I ask a question.

Are NAS drives any good for streaming media on a 360?

I was thinking on getting one to save on having my pc switched on all the time when streaming media.
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My QNAP comes with Twonkymedia, it streams video and music fine to both my PS3 and 360. iirc Twonkymedia can be installed on a lot of NAS boxes if it didn't originally have it.
 
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Wiggins said:
May I ask a question.

Are NAS drives any good for streaming media on a 360?

I was thinking on getting one to save on having my pc switched on all the time when streaming media.
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Got a Icy Box NAS 4220 and it streams to my 360 no problem, and thats across a poor wireless network!
 
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