Recommend me a NAS device...

FirebarUK · 25 May 2009 at 22:51

Hi everyone.

I'm after some recommendations for a consumer NAS device. Ideally I need 1TB of storage I can use for Time Machine backups for two macs and something I can backup my Linux laptop to. Wired is fine.

Unfortunately the 1TB Time Capsule is too steep in price.

Does anyone have any experience with the Netgear RND-2000 ?

What do other people use?

Thanks.

Vonhelmet · 26 May 2009 at 00:03

You sure that Netgear would be cheaper? It costs about £200 before you put any disks in!

What about an Airport Extreme and a USB 1TB hard disk? I reckon you could do that for about £250 with a decent disk.

randal · 26 May 2009 at 00:10

Buffalo's Linkstation Live, the 1TB version (non BT downloader version) can be had for £140-150 if you shop about.

Alternatively you can build yourself a FreeNAS server for not much bucks, have just done a build thread in SFF.

FirebarUK · 26 May 2009 at 08:51

vonhelmet said:
You sure that Netgear would be cheaper? It costs about £200 before you put any disks in!

What about an Airport Extreme and a USB 1TB hard disk? I reckon you could do that for about £250 with a decent disk.

At the moment they are running a Promo in which you can claim a free 500GB disk. I'd then buy another any have two volumes, still works out just over £100 cheaper.

I hadn't thought about the airport extreme. I guess I could do that

I'll look into it, thanks.

FirebarUK · 26 May 2009 at 08:52

randal24 said:
Buffalo's Linkstation Live, the 1TB version (non BT downloader version) can be had for £140-150 if you shop about.

Alternatively you can build yourself a FreeNAS server for not much bucks, have just done a build thread in SFF.

I remember my old Linkstation was great. I'll go hunt for it! Hopefully it can support AFP mounts?

slylittlefox · 26 May 2009 at 11:19

We've recently bought the and configured the RND-2000, its a great bit of kit.

FirebarUK · 26 May 2009 at 11:31

We've recently bought the and configured the RND-2000, its a great bit of kit.

Presumably for a time machine backup you still need to mount a shared volume, create a disk image and then back up to that?

LordSplodge · 26 May 2009 at 12:42

I just installed FreeNAS on a machine (actually I installed FreeNAS and OpenFiler running under VMware as I need iSCSI as well as NAS) and it now sits away quietly serving many many megabytes of cheap storage to all computers in the house. It will also server iTunes as well but I haven't set that bit up and Bit Torrent and a lot more...

Total cost is a big fat 0 as I have just used old bits of hardware.

So if you have a spare PC then this option may be for you. Of course it doesn't look anywhere as good as a AE or Time Capsule.

Oh I also have a disk connected to by Airport Extreme via USB for Time Machine backups and that works well too!