Best NAS for Bit Torrent

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Hello, I'm looking for a NAS enclosure that has a good BT client out of the box. I had a Thecus a year ago and it was very unreliable, kept giving up on downloads larger than a couple of GB. Not worried about many other features other than being able to log in remotely if I’m at work or where ever. Don’t wanna spend a fortune and have been considering the Netgear Ready NAS Duo V2 and Synology DS112J so far.

Anyone had any experience with these?
 
Out of those two a Synology is hands down the better option. The DS112j you mention is 1 bay, so if you want a 2 bay the DS212j would be the one to look at. Reviewed both HERE

Well built, good OS, plenty of features and the download station handles BT/FTP/NZB etc
 
another vote for synology... had no issues with my ds106j (it's getting on a bit now but still works a charm)

Another option is obviously the hp microserver (seems to be good reviews on here) with linux or freenas (7 likely better option here) as the os (or windows if you want to pay a bit more)... currently got £100 cash back till end of month too so would likely come in under the cost of the synology...
 
That £100 cashback has been 'this month only' for nearly 18 months! No rush, but definitely ++1 from me for the Microserver.
My Thecus was a POS from the day I bought it, and when their firmware update broke 'robot copy', or robocopy to the rest of the world it was the last straw. Sold it, bought a Microserver for less than half of what I got from the sale and never looked back.
 
enigmo said:
That £100 cashback has been 'this month only' for nearly 18 months
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that's good to know as if it's still on I may grab it and tinker with linux when pay for this job comes in (typically after the end of april lol)...even cheaper if it's claimed as a (yes valid) business expense :D
 
Considering you can get 5 drives in them the microserver is indeed a steal with the cashback. What kind of speeds can you get out of one compared to say, the Synology DS212?
 
welshdragon said:
Considering you can get 5 drives in them the microserver is indeed a steal with the cashback. What kind of speeds can you get out of one compared to say, the Synology DS212?
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Depends Andy .... on Network setup, NIC's, RAID type, RAM etc

Before I changed to my current OS (WHS 2011) on my HP Micro with 32 bit FreeNAS 7 + 3GB RAM and a small software RAID 5 array I could push over 80MBs for large file transfers easy.

BTW ... what's the DS212's stats please ?
 
I was looking at getting a NAS for home back up and data storage. I narrowed my choice down to the following three: Netgear ReadyNAS Duo v2 RND2000, Synology DS212J or Synology DS212.

After reading this thread and the HP Microserver thread I'm a little torn on what to do :p

Potentially asking the in wrong thread, but does anyone know what power consumption is like with the above NAS enclosures vs the Microserver? Will the Microserver be noticeably more expensive to run than the NAS enclosures?
 
Not sure on the power consumption but the thing to bare in mind is the NAS is very easy to setup and offers great speed. Plug into the router, run synology assistant and you are away.

Setting up the microserver is not necessarily harder but is more involved. It is a server after all and should be thoguh of as setting it up in the same way you would a normal pc ie plug in a monitor/keyboard etc. Whereas with a nas you set it up from any pc using their helper software.

Forget the readynas, it is pants. Just for backup/storage, get the DS212j. Set up in no time, less than half the size of a microserver, quiet and low power. It's as plug n play as a nas can get.

Reviewed the DS212j and DS212 HERE
 
Thanks welshdragon :)

Yes I'm just looking at bog standard back up and storage so looks like a NAS would do the job perfectly. Just the tinker inside me is intrigued by the Microserver, I don't particularly need it but I'm sure if I bought one I'd spend hours fiddling with it :p
 
Go with the Syn to start with

Plenty to tinker with :)

It will get you used to setting shares up, permissions, streaming and all the reat of the jazz. In the long run it will put you in good stead for progessing to a HP Micro further down the line and you'll be able to make a more informed choice of OS to run on it

Just a thought :)
 
Hi thanks for the input guys.

I've gone for the microserver, could not resist it for that price. I'll let you know how I get on with it :)
 
Hello,

I got the micro server setup today and did take much more time to setup than I had hoped but mainly due to some unlucky circumstances.

To start with I've got a 30 day trial of MS Home Server as I did not want to commit more £££ if I could not get on with it. I've also held back from adding a new HD, wanted to play with it a bit first
Anyway, installing the OS was just as simple as any other windows installation but did take quite a while to complete with updates and everything but that’s to be expected. First thing I did was setup Utorrnet with web gui and forwarded the ports to make it work, so happy with that. Next thing was setting up network shares again very much like how I have already done with my W7 machines I basically don’t bother with the home group and open everything up to everyone in my network.

The biggest pain in the ass for me personally was setting up the remote web access. It all seemed very simple as the wizard took me through the steps but at the end when it came to log in through my .homeserver.com address I just got "page could not be displayed." So I went through it again and again, no joy. I started to hunt around the interwebs for answers. Turns out that the billion 7800 upnp does not communicate well with MS Home Server. Ok so manual port forward time, find out what port (443 it turns out) then we're in buinsess. Again no luck, it seems there has been many people unable to get the port forwarding on the billion to work with it. Spent hours hunting around and people seemed to be respond with port numbers they'd picked out of the air. I thought bugger it whack it in the DMZ, bang straight in. So still a port issue. I just could not get these ports everyone was suggesting to open up the routers been factory reset 5 times today and MS Servers gone in twice. But just as I thought it had beaten me and I would have to beg you guys for help I noticed one of the predetermined port forwarding profiles in the Billions list box was HTTPS TCP 443. I cleared out all the manual forwards I had at that point and selected just HTTPC 443. It worked!! I was very happy, but I don’t understand why it did not when I tried it manually, a bug? Something stupid I missed?

Any way happy I could log in at last I started to play with the streaming, some videos work some don’t guess it’s down to codec but all my mp3s come through great. I guess the next thing to do is whack in a 2TB drive and relocate the shared folders.

So in summery apart from the port forwarding issue (not the micro servers fault) it wasn't as problematic as I thought it could have been. I switched off the CTL ALT Del logging thing, could not be doing with that. I've got it all setup almost to a point where I can leave it alone to do its thing. The only complaint I have is the remote access does not allow you past the dashboard so you can’t mess about with the setting in the OS, I could always install logmein or something though.
 
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