NAS Advice

feeddagoat · 2 Aug 2012 at 19:53

Hey everyone, I'm looking to pick up a NAS and have a few questions. Firstly my requirements are being able to access files not only from home but when out and about and via a smart phone. I am also looking at 4 bay options with the intent of expanding over time. At the moment and after some research I came up with

Synology DS411J
Synology DS411Slim
QNAP Turbo NAS TS-412

Does anyone have any experience with any of these or any other recommendations?
The other question I have is what back up routeen do you have for your NAS's? Making a second copy ie. 2bays for data and the other 2 as a copy (not raid) seems a solution but a power surge, fire or theft and you loose everything anyway, not to mention cost. Has anyone any suggestions on the best way to back up a NAS?

Thanks for your time.

feeddagoat · 6 Aug 2012 at 15:54

anyone?

DIABLO · 6 Aug 2012 at 20:48

You might get more of a response in the internet section where most of the NAS talk seems to happen, if i needed a 4 bay NAS i would'nt buy a NAS i would buy a HP Microserver and put Freenas on it. Only way to backup really is to backup on too external drives.

feeddagoat · 7 Aug 2012 at 11:21

cheers diablo. I'll look at the hp one and repost unless a mod can move

PiKe · 7 Aug 2012 at 11:23

There's always http://www.crashplan.com/ for backing up in the cloud.

welshdragon · 13 Aug 2012 at 14:47

feeddagoat said:
Hey everyone, I'm looking to pick up a NAS and have a few questions. Firstly my requirements are being able to access files not only from home but when out and about and via a smart phone. I am also looking at 4 bay options with the intent of expanding over time. At the moment and after some research I came up with

Synology DS411J
QNAP Turbo NAS TS-412

Does anyone have any experience with any of these or any other recommendations?
The other question I have is what back up routeen do you have for your NAS's? Making a second copy ie. 2bays for data and the other 2 as a copy (not raid) seems a solution but a power surge, fire or theft and you loose everything anyway, not to mention cost. Has anyone any suggestions on the best way to back up a NAS?

Thanks for your time.

Both of those are very good. I reviewed the DS412+ HERE

Synology and QNAP solutions are both very easy to setup, offer a wide range of features and good performance.

I would avoid the slim unless space is at an absolute premiumas it uses laptoip size hard drives that are costlier to implement.

The HP Microserver is also strong given that it is near permanently got a £100 cashback offer on it. Then use FreeNAS or maybe windows home server.

Can I ask why you don't want to use raid?

I would suggest the best way to backup a NAS would be either an external hard disk or have it sync to the cloud.

Or if budget allowed sync it to another NAS.