NAS setup

wonkymagic

wonkymagic

wonkymagic

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Hi, i am also looking to get a NAS for home use but, i am concerned in using a single HD as if it fails i'd lose the data. what would be a good a good rig to get that's not overly expensive say £200.
 
If your really worried about losing data I'd get one of the QNAP or Synology NAS that can do USB replication - then you can setup say 2 disc RAID internally and an external USB2/3 HDD that maintains a realtime copy of the array in normal NTFS format. (From my experience entire RAID array or NAS hardware failure is just as likely (or just as unlikely) as single disc failure).
 
Both are very good. I think Synology for me though overall at the moment. Software is a bit more refined, frequent updates and good support.
 
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wonkymagic said:
if i was to put in 2 x2tb hd with raid how much space would i get.(noob with raid)
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I'm no expert but it RAID 1 you will effectively have 2tb of storage space as one disk would simply be a mirror backup of the other.

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Both are very good. I think Synology for me though overall at the moment. Software is a bit more refined, frequent updates and good support. Hang tight and the DS213j will be out soon. The DS213+/DS213 have just been released so shouldn't be long.
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Noooooooo :confused:

I'd all but decided on the DS212j and now you tell me the 213 range is out any time!?!?! :confused:

I've done a quick search but can't find anything on a 213j - are you sure they are releasing one and if they do, what kind of spec differences to the 213 are we looking at do you think?

If I can't wait, I'm slightly leaning towards the DS213 rather than the plus model - as far as I can see it's just a dual core CPU and something called "floating point" that are the main differences! Does this sound about right?
 
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Yeah those are the main differences. Slight boost in transfer speeds but tbh, if the unit is just being deployed in the home on media streaming duties and backups then the DS213 or the DS213j will be more than fine. There's hardly anything in it performance wise between the DS213 and DS213+. Where the DS213+ needs that extra grunt is in a small/medium office where you ahve multpiple concurrent users all accessing.
 
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