Recommend me a NAS Enclosure

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ci_newman

ci_newman

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Hi all,

I'm trying to price up a new NAS enclosure but it's been several years since I've looked into them :)

Ideally it needs:

  1. Gigabit Ethernet
  2. Multiple disk enclosures (e.g. Raid 1 for resilience)
  3. The ability to make off-site back-ups

Has anyone got any recommendations?
 
Recommendations will depend on how many HDDs you want to install, ie, 2 or 4(>), and how much you are willing to spend, for a 2 bay NAS, the D-Link DNS 323 and Icy Box IB-NAS4220 are not bad offerings as "budget" NASs, if you have more money to spend, have a look at the QNAP range...
 
not that the advice given isnt good however, the icybox is rubbish. it's very very slow and you have to make sure you put the right drives in it. and then its not very good then.
 
reviews do not take into account long term experience.

i'm only talking from experience. i bought for my mother so she wouldnt have to store everything on her laptop. with the latest firmware...


only certain brands of disks will go in there. i then bought another two that are supposed to work and they did, to begin with. now she has a pair of disks and only one works even though i have tested them both.
its so slow over a 100base network that its practically unuseable.
 
i just bought a TS-419P. my friend has the 509. He bought the drobo (which he paid over £400 for), turned out to be rubbish. nothing but praise for the qnap.
 
Another vote for the ReadyNAS, either the 2 drive Duo or the 4 drive NVX, both with offers on at the moment for free drives.

Duo comes with a 3 year warranty and the NVX (apart from the pioneer model) has 5 years.

Cheers

Richard
 
Why use RAID 1 on a NAS like the ReadyNas Duo?

I don't get it. RAID 1 protects against HDD failure, great. However in a product like the ReadyNas Duo there still exist many single points of failure (PSU, fan, software etc...) so just because it has RAID 1 does not make it a secure storage solution. You still have to keep a full copy of your data elsewhere.

Given than one copy will be on the NAS and one copy will be elsewhere - what's the point of paying extra for RAID 1 on the NAS? Surely it's better to have a cheaper, larger single drive (or even RAID 0) solution?
 
clv101 said:
Why use RAID 1 on a NAS like the ReadyNas Duo?

I don't get it. RAID 1 protects against HDD failure, great. However in a product like the ReadyNas Duo there still exist many single points of failure (PSU, fan, software etc...) so just because it has RAID 1 does not make it a secure storage solution. You still have to keep a full copy of your data elsewhere.

Given than one copy will be on the NAS and one copy will be elsewhere - what's the point of paying extra for RAID 1 on the NAS? Surely it's better to have a cheaper, larger single drive (or even RAID 0) solution?
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Fair points.

The X-Raid of the ReadyNas duos also provides an easy upgrade route, though. When you decide you'd like larger hard drives, you can just insert one at a time and the box will automatically sync the data across to the new drives.

I think it's a great little system for the money.
 
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