NAS Question

PatZ1989

PatZ1989

PatZ1989

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I have some files i am forever copying back and forth between computers, so was tihnking about just getting one of these, but my question is about power consumption. is it costly to have one of these sitting their 24/7

I would assume it doesnt need much as all it needs to do is run a hard disk, but if anyone has any real world experience and knows, would appreciate it

Thanks
 
this is what i wanted to hear, think my new backup drive is going to be a NAS rather then another HDD, was just aware that it being on 24/7 might be more expensive then first though

Cheers guys
 
Actually new question then, recommended NAS drives for home network? i would like to stick 2 disks in it and be able to use all the storage (the netgear ones want to automatically backup to the second disk?)
 
ive got this down to either the readyNAS duo or the Synology ds210J, but the features are pretty similar and without having one infront of me i cnat decide betwene the two, one big favor for the syn one is that you dont have to use RAID, in the readynas you HAVE to have raid configured, the only work around is to RAID 0 two volumes on one physical disk
 
in the end bought the new ds211 from synology, great bit of kit. everything backing up to ti running the applications so its all accesible from anywhere. very happy bunny, recommend to anyone
 
Yeah easy as it can be, it formats a disk n then you create volumes, set the permissions etc. can us windows ACL if you prefer but using the diskstations authentication is fine

The apps are pretty good, the download station could do with some extra features but considering its purpose is to be a NAS you cant fault it really
 
ringo, as below:

On the NAS open the "Shared Folders" app and click create, chose a name and assign who can access it (this will look at the users created on the NAS, the default being "Admin" and "guest". you can choose read, read/write and no access)

this doesnt depend on the nas but the client, windows will remember credentials provided you are nagivating to the same place. after authenticating once you will only need to type \\server\share and it will just open

Again depends on the client, mapped drives within windows will "reconnect at login" unless you tell them not too. Mapping the drives ive found more useful as this assigns them a drive letter within windows, therefore windows backup can use them as if they were a local disk
 
the ds210 (assuming they all do with dsm 3.0) will let you chose between the synology's authentication or windows ACL can be modified, either or tbh
 
anything can send it but it needs to go to a certain port (9 i think?) with the mac address of the machine to be woken up

good old DD-WRT on my router takes care of the wol stuff
 
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