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Ph4lanx

Ph4lanx

Ph4lanx

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Hi guys,

Apologies if this is in the wrong forums, it's the closest I could find to the subject I'm looking for information for.

I have a NAS at home which backs up to a plugged in USB HDD every 24 hours, however I would like to replace this setup with a NAS that has, let's say, 2 x 1TB HDD in it and they mirror each other.

Can anyone recommend a NAS system that can handle this whilst still having a decent noise level in terms of fan usage?

Thanks in advance!
 
I believe there are a few devices which support this built in, otherwise your best bet is rsync in my opinion, which it should be possible to kick into life on most unix based NAS devices - what's the NAS you have already?
 
It's a iomega StorCenter 750GB NAS. I've got an external USB HDD plugged into it that it copies to every night at about 7pm scheduled, but it is quite loud, so I'd like to replace it with a single unit that I can just put a couple of HDDs in and let the RAID sort out the mirroring.
 
Oh, OK, slightly different to my understanding. In that case I don't think you can do much better than the Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, two bays, pick your own drives, loads of features and reasonably priced (£140ish + drives)
 
Thanks for that bigredshark, sorry if I misexplained anything. It's a home NAS. Would you happen to know what the ReadyNAS is like in terms of noiselevel?
 
Ph4lanx said:
Thanks for that bigredshark, sorry if I misexplained anything. It's a home NAS. Would you happen to know what the ReadyNAS is like in terms of noiselevel?
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It's good but not silent, nothing with two disks and a fan in is going to be unfortunately. It does have a nice scheduling feature built in though as I recall (so you can tell it to power off at, say, midnight and back on in the morning) which is quite nice.

There are quite a few reviews around of it if you're curious...
 
Id stay away from the readynas. We had one in the office just to share between 2 pc's. Heres my list of bugs I found:

1)Ftp got confused over permissions
2)Regular crashes
3)Slow read write
4)very little updates
5)Ask it to act as a dhcp server was unusable

Apart from that it was nice and quiet. Apart when it was turned on.

The one i liked and installed for a client was buffalo nas's. Ive set up tonnes from single drive boxes to rack mounted sytems and they always work and perform well. I recomend this one:

http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/network-storage/linkstation/ls-wtgl-linkstation-pro-duo/
 
I'd say exactly the reverse myself, I've had bad experiences with the Buffalo units and the readynas units I've seen have been decent, a few dead drives but I'm blaming seagate for that rather than the NAS as I believe that series was prone to failures...
 
Oh jeez. OK well looking through other NAS reviews, the Western Digital 2TB My Book Mirror Edition dual-drive storage system seems to be getting good marks.

Anyone had experience? It seems like EXACTLY what I need :)
 
Another vote for the ReadyNAS duo here.

It's not the quickest, but at this price point it's not going to be.

Never had any crashes with ours, never any permissions problems.

Use it for grabbing nzb files as well without issue, very happy with it.
 
I don't know about the Mybook network models really, they look good features wise and I haven't seen any horrendous reviews but on the other hand they've always seemed a bit too consumer focused for my tastes. The direct attached USB and Firewire versions don't have a sterling reputation for reliability either it seems...
 
We used to supply the Buffalo TeraStations at work but they really are not user friendly (Web GUI is confusing to some) and were prone to hard drives failing. We have since supplied the ReadyNAS 2100/3100 & 4200 which are pretty damn good, they are no NetApp/EMC for SAN functions but they do replication and the throughput on them is actually fairly quick for such a cheap device. I know the versions I have used are not the home models but they run the same RAIDiator (:o) firmware, so should be similar.
 
I've got a WD Mybook world at home, it's a single drive but very quiet. Nothing special in terms of features, but it works.

I've installed bittorrent on it so I can leave it downloading things overnight.

Plus the light on the front looks like KITT
 
Just setting up an Iomega StorCentre ix2-200 1Tb NAS.

Had a few problems getting it setup and one of the Seagate drives failed in the first week, no data loss due to RAID 1 and it is working fine now.

Very quiet and seems to be quite fast when I'm using it to store Virtual images.

Seems to be a lot better than the Drobo that I have as well, which keeps dropping its connection.
 
Hmmm, the DS209 from Synology looks quite good for my needs. I've just picked up a copy of Computer Shopper while I was out at lunch, as they're doing a 12 NAS side-by-side test. I'll have a look through that too.
 
Well that didn't take long! Synology is STREETS ahead of the competition according to these tests. I think I'll be looking at the DS210j.
 
The Synology units are good, I just couldn't justify the increased price over the Netgear at the time.
 
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