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Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Hi guys,

I'm selling my PC which is only used for storage purposes, I have 2 x 2TB drives currently in it.

I want a NAS with folder redirection on my laptops have a mapped drive for these 2 drives, what is a recommendation for a NAS that can do this?

I'm not fussed for accessing the storage anywhere other than home although it would be a nice perk.

Cheers
 
So they would enable for me to have "My Documents" on the there and quick enough speeds to play my iTunes lib, stream vids, open pics etc?
 
No to be honest, I just want reliability which of course probably is down to the drive I put in it. What about the RAID? Does it have the tech to set this up?
 
Excellent, cheaper than I anticipated. Out of interest what do the more expensive Synology ones offer? Just so I know I'm not missing out on anything...!
 
Andybtsn said:
Excellent, cheaper than I anticipated. Out of interest what do the more expensive Synology ones offer? Just so I know I'm not missing out on anything...!
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Better performance and reliability, to say the least. You get what you pay for.

With a NAS costing under £50 you wouldn't expect particularly fast file transfer speeds, and while the performance we measured with the DNS320L wasn't in the least bit startling, it achieved better speeds than we expected. In RAID 1, large files were written at 40.7MB/s and read at 52.9MB/s. Small files were written at 7.7MB/s and read at 12.5MB/s. In reality, this leaves the DNS-320L a little way behind the competition, but it isn't bad for the price.
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http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/storage/nas-drives/1400682/d-link-dns-320l-review

Have a look at the DS216J.
 
Maybe you were right, I got the DLINK 320L in the end, all seems fine until I was transferring over 500gb of data across the physical LAN, it's copying at 1mb/s tops. Fluctuating much below this. I need the access to be quick enough for me to use the NAS as "My documents", iTunes folder destination etc.

For those who recommended this NAS, is it the same for you? I have a WD MyCloud NAS and that gets waaay better transfer speeds.
 
i have a synology DS114 only a single bay very happy with it.
Moving to a 2 bay model when i upgrade.
The 114 will be used with my new cctv setup that is coming soon
 
I went through a LOT of NAS units trying to do it cheap including a couple of D-Link models, even Verbatim lol - waste of money - wish I'd gone straight to spending on the QNAP I'd been eyeing up but trying not to spend for as in the end it was what gave me everything I was looking for in one unit (Synology would be a similar story).
 
Rroff said:
I went through a LOT of NAS units trying to do it cheap including a couple of D-Link models, even Verbatim lol - waste of money - wish I'd gone straight to spending on the QNAP I'd been eyeing up but trying not to spend for as in the end it was what gave me everything I was looking for in one unit (Synology would be a similar story).
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Which one do you have?
 
Rroff said:
I went through a LOT of NAS units trying to do it cheap including a couple of D-Link models, even Verbatim lol - waste of money - wish I'd gone straight to spending on the QNAP I'd been eyeing up but trying not to spend for as in the end it was what gave me everything I was looking for in one unit (Synology would be a similar story).
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Which is ironic, as there are reasonably cheap value-end Synology 2 and 4 bay units.
 
rhysduck said:
Which one do you have?
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QNAP TS-412

Richdog said:
Which is ironic, as there are reasonably cheap value-end Synology 2 and 4 bay units.
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This was a few years back now - prices and availability were quite different to today - though these days the Synology and QNAP units have mostly gone up quite a bit.

One of the biggest problems for me was the requirements of both reliable hardware and feature rich software - i.e. some of the cheaper devices would have fairly decent software offerings with proper group management, etc. but a habit of randomly corrupting the data on disc or losing the ability to read the HDD entirely, etc. which is obviously not good or vice versa you'd find a device with solid reliability and transfer rates but the software was really barebones.
 
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Hi guys, NAS seems okay now! No idea why the speeds were so horrific, stopped it all together and started the process again. Folder redirection works fine as does my iTunes folder being on the NAS (something I was very anal about working!) - The web interface is pretty clunky and slow but it does everything I need it too. The App for IOS is also pretty woeful but you get what you pay for...
 
Dunno if its related but one issue I found with some cheaper NAS (this is like 10 years ago though now) was that speeds would drop out entirely until restarted if you exceeded 4GB of data transferred in one direction (probably related to some 32bit thing somewhere :S ).
 
Synology, 2 bay or 4 bay.

If not Synology, then QNAP. Most other offerings aren't worth looking at.

Yes, they are expensive.
 
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