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Scotteh

Scotteh

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Ok well basically I need NAS

Needed to;
- upload files from any computers to use with WDTV
- upload files from any computers to share with others
- backups of each computer

Needs security (not sure if every NAS comes with user accounts by default or not)

Was looking at the WD My Book Live 2TB drive (£120).

I'd be looking to spend like 200 at most.

Any suggestions? :)
 
Scotteh said:
So would the microserver do a better job than a NAS? (for backups etc)

Thanks.
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If you use WHS2011 it will make a full system image of your machine then update that daily. Then if you HDD goes in your machine then you just put the disk in your machine and copy the image back to a new HDD.

Also you can run media servers etc.
 
it can do a much better job
it all depends what software you want to run and how techy you want it
you can also put more than 10gb of storage in it so loads of future options

but if you want it easy a nas might be better
 
What would the power difference be compared to a typical NAS?

Is it very quiet (it'd be in the room I sleep so noise would be an issue :p)?

Would the typical set up (2GB ram afaik) be enough to run it simply as a NAS, and ofc I could throw in some stuff at a later date and upgrade RAM but for the time being it'd simply be NAS :P
 
Scotteh said:
What would the power difference be compared to a typical NAS?

Is it very quiet (it'd be in the room I sleep so noise would be an issue :p)?

Would the typical set up (2GB ram afaik) be enough to run it simply as a NAS, and ofc I could throw in some stuff at a later date and upgrade RAM but for the time being it'd simply be NAS :P
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You can fit normal DDR3 ram in it so i would reccomend just going for 4GB as its only about £15.

They are not loud but not silent.

I have small rubber feat attached to mine and that makes it quite abit quieter, but you can also replace the rear 120mm fan so it won't be loud at all.

Mine uses 30Watts when it has spun all 3 drives down but if i am accessing my files then it uses about 40Watts.
 
I managed to get a N40L microserver with windows home server 2011 for £185 after cashback. I am using it as a NAS and don't need any more storage than the 250gb that comes with it. I'm just using it as a NAS and the 2gb ram as standard is plenty.

I tried a cheap NAS device before and returned it as transfer speeds were pathetic. Hp microserver has turned out to be much better.
 
Been in "about to upgrade NAS" mode for some time myself and been dithering between DS212j or Microserver. Currently leaning towards microserver (partly this was when I was considering whether it was simpler to buy a ready made solution or have something I'd have to "play with" I remembered my wifes comment about my PC upgrades of "why can't we just buy a new PC like everyone else"!) One other "advantage" I've just realised is that I can buy the microserver and go through the process of setting up the OS (probably something like ubuntu server) on the 250GB drive etc and then buy the actual HDD(s) for storage afterwards ... perhaps they'll be cheaper by then!
 
With the HP microserver can you have the OS on the supplied 250GB disk and then have 2 more large drives configured as (hardware) RAID1? From what I can read then I think this is possible. Also, if 2 drives are configed as hardware RAID1 (i.e. through the "BIOS" using the hardware RAID controller) then does the OS see these as a single drive or is a special driver needed?
 
deshepherd said:
Is that using the hardware support for RAID or is it a OS level software RAID?
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From what I've now read turns out that the "hardware RAID" is actually little more that a bit of assistance to a driver based software RAID and that in reality its best to ignore it and use the RAID support built into Linux.
 
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