2TB NAS - which one?

importedforyou · 9 May 2012 at 22:37

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WD My Book Live 2TB
3 years warranty

OR

Buffalo Linkstation Live v2 2TB
2 years warranty

Both very similar... are there any new ones planned?

also i noticed inside the wd 2tb is a wd cavier green drive WD20EARS and was wondering what hard drive is supplied with buffalo as they dont make their own drives?

welshdragon · 9 May 2012 at 22:42

I have reviewed a couple of buffalo units, and they are not very good at all. Quality control is poor at best, low performance speeds and dire software. I have not tried the WD ones. What is your budget and what will it be used for?

importedforyou · 9 May 2012 at 22:58

welshdragon said:
I have reviewed a couple of buffalo units, and they are not very good at all. Quality control is poor at best, low performance speeds and dire software. I have not tried the WD ones. What is your budget and what will it be used for?

Was wondering which one to choose from out of the two really as there are average reviews for both

welshdragon · 9 May 2012 at 23:24

I would probably go for the WD then. If you can offer a budget I might be able to suggest a better alternative?

importedforyou · 10 May 2012 at 18:18

does anyone know what drive is in the buffalo?

importedforyou · 10 May 2012 at 18:22

also what do people think of the Seagate FreeAgent GOFLEX HOME 2TB (1x 2TB) NAS
or
is the western digital one preferred?

Rroff · 10 May 2012 at 18:33

Been using a lot of different NAS setups for years including various WD, verbatim, IcyBox, stand alone setups using FreeNAS, etc. with various level of sucess and never been really happy with any of them.

Recently bought a QNAP Turbo NAS TS-412 for someone else and once it was flashed to the latest firmware really impressed with it so got one for myself so from my own reccomendation I'd look at getting a QNAP even if it means buying the discs seperate - things that really did it for me:

Real time backup to an external USB disc - so no worries about losing data if an entire RAID array fails, etc.

Disc/power management really works - fans spin down when its idle, discs actually spin down when its idle, generally runs cool and quiet even when doing its job.

Decent web based control panel with fairly simple user/group management that actually works.

Lots of connectivity and functionality including the ability to run apps on it for various things like media serving, file downloads, etc.

importedforyou · 10 May 2012 at 18:55

Rroff said:
Been using a lot of different NAS setups for years including various WD, verbatim, IcyBox, stand alone setups using FreeNAS, etc. with various level of sucess and never been really happy with any of them.

Recently bought a QNAP Turbo NAS TS-412 for someone else and once it was flashed to the latest firmware really impressed with it so got one for myself so from my own reccomendation I'd look at getting a QNAP even if it means buying the discs seperate - things that really did it for me:

Real time backup to an external USB disc - so no worries about losing data if an entire RAID array fails, etc.

Disc/power management really works - fans spin down when its idle, discs actually spin down when its idle, generally runs cool and quiet even when doing its job.

Decent web based control panel with fairly simple user/group management that actually works.

Lots of connectivity and functionality including the ability to run apps on it for various things like media serving, file downloads, etc.

does the QNAP comes with hard drives, if so which ones?

Rroff · 11 May 2012 at 20:06

OcUK used to do pre-populated ones but I can't see any on sale atm from a quick glance.