NAS or USB

nastyhead · 24 Sep 2006 at 10:10

I'm looking to get an external hard drive for use on a standalone machine. I'm not sure which would be better for me are there major differences performance wise? I know USB is a lot cheaper.

wizardmaxx · 24 Sep 2006 at 10:26

U still going to be limited by usb2.0 maximum bandwidth eitherway afaik

Freakish_05 · 24 Sep 2006 at 10:59

I'd also go for USB. Can already see problems with the NAS drive I've got coming *sigh*

smids · 24 Sep 2006 at 11:19

Freakish_05 said:
I'd also go for USB. Can already see problems with the NAS drive I've got coming *sigh*

If it's the Netgear SC101, then in fairness there are lots of warnings!

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I'm building my own NAS server at the moment. I've got 2x250GB in a RAID1 (well I will do soon), P3 1.266ghz Tualatin, MSI 6368 motherboard and 256MB SDRAM. It's going to be completely configurable and the fact it has only cost £110 for something which you can only buy for £600 makes it much better. Even the SC101 and 2x 250GB would cost a lot more (which is the cheapest RAID enabled NAS box I know - and that's carp as I believe it's not even real NAS as it needs drivers.