Trying to find a reliable £50 solution that I can use as a media server (streaming to RPi) and mount external disks to to manually backup two laptops with CCC. I've had a look at Zyxel NSA310 and D-Link DNS-320, heard ok things about the Zyxel and bad things about the D-Link's compatibility with OSX. Any ideas OCUK?
i bought a WD MyBook Live 2TB Nas drive for £120 that would do what you require. (purple shirt sotre has it for £104.99 web price at the moment)
i have all my media on it but could also CCC my comp/laptop to it. (i would advise against this though as its not a backup)
its not a failsafe solution and its kind of putting all your eggs in 1 basket but it works for me. (i can re-rip all my media)
it mounts as an external drive on my mac and reconnects everytime i start up and also i have it as a networked drive on my pc.
currently my system is as follows
PC in office - Clone of HDD to another internal drive (not really worried if i lose stuff on pc as its hardly ever used)
Imac in kitchen - CCC i use to backup every other day to a G-Tech G-raid Mini (which is in Raid 1) (2 x 500gb drives - imac has a 500gb hdd)
the gtech is really just a clone so if the imac hdd goes kaput i can still go on working booting from the gtech.
everything i dont want to lose (just photos/documents) are manually copied to an external usb which is kept in the garage and updated bi-weekly
all my media (film/tv) is kept on the 2tb drive in the front room. jailbroken ATV2 with xbmc plays all my files.