LaCie Network Space 1TB Gigabit Ethernet NAS Hard Drive

m4rshmul3 · 28 Apr 2009 at 13:24

Hi,

Does anyone have any experience with this bit of kit? It appears to do everything I require but can anoyone recomend any alternatives?

Thanks

Skidilliplop · 28 Apr 2009 at 14:21

They're a fairly average NAS box. Not sure why this is in enterprise solutions as this is more of a home network product.
What does it need to do?

m4rshmul3 · 28 Apr 2009 at 14:44

I did post it in the wrong sections. I literally want to store all my media on it, with the ablility to stream it to any laptop or console in the house, also to schedule a backup of my main laptop to it.

Skidilliplop · 29 Apr 2009 at 10:17

Well it'll do that, however performance won't be great and for backup it's not the most elegant solution. If you're willing to scour the second hand market for an old PC for similar price or invest a little more you can build a PC and stick something like FreeNAS on it. FreeNAS is free as the name suggests, needs naff all resources to install and supports Software RAID aswell as FTP,HTTP,SMB,iSCSI,TFTP and any other way to get files to and from it you can think of. With regards to backup, it also supports rsync. Rsync is ideal for home backup really. You install the client service on the laptop and as files change within the specified directories it updates the changes with the server in background.

In short a PC with FreeNAS type OS isntalled + some disks is lots more flexible and faster than an off the shelf soho NAS box.