NAS

[milkinc13]

I am looking to upgrade from USB exteral HDD for the main reason USB is to slow (roughly 4 hours for 90GB of data). So am looking for an ethernet NAS box to reduce times especally when it comes to back-ups with less time spent.

I have been looking at the "LaCie Network Space 500GB Gigabit Ethernet NAS Hard Drive" on OcUK.
Are there any others that i should consider.
Size isn't of importance as the 250 external HDD i have is only around 100GB full and i've had that around 5 years, so 500GB is a lot to me.

Thanks
Phil

 

[milkinc13]

have esata on pc, but not on laptop, which is reason to go NAS, easier to synch both together, as go down esata route still leaves laptop on USBwhich is as u guys are aware really slow

 

[milkinc13]

pretty sure it is USB2. The problem is when transfiring huge files across such as back-ups and my current situation which is I need to put my entire my documents file onto main PC from external HDD.
USB great for small files when it's large files the sustained speeds aren't that good.