SSD Nas?
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Price isn't even close yet.
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with a 420GB+ SSD's costing north of 500 quid ish.... how close do you think?
nowhere near for the "average joe" home user
capacity alone would still point you towards mechanical HDD NAS for quite a while yet
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What will it be used for? Storing/streaming media? Home office? Work etc? How much space do you need and what is your budget?
It will be used for storing and serving media files to apple tv, storage of personal files and back up and also for downloading via nzbs.
Ideally I would like a 4 bay nas due to better raid systems (able to switch and change one faulty hdd without affect data) rather than using raid 1 but maybe 2TB of storage capacity is enough with compromise of a cheaper system.
Ideally I would like a 4 bay nas due to better raid systems (able to switch and change one faulty hdd without affect data) rather than using raid 1 but maybe 2TB of storage capacity is enough with compromise of a cheaper system.
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A Synology DS411J would give you that flexibility of different raid configuratioons and handle everything you need.
I am definitely leaning towards the Synology variants due to provig and DSM. Just trying to decide 2 bay or splash out for 4 bay atm.
Don't know of it's worth getting the slim one, apart from size are there any other advantages of using the smaller HDDs? Power? Noise?
It will be sat in my living room.
Don't know of it's worth getting the slim one, apart from size are there any other advantages of using the smaller HDDs? Power? Noise?
It will be sat in my living room.
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Size apart. Might be a bit lower on power and maybe noise. You will be limited to smaller capacity drives though form what I can see. And funnily since you started this thread I was offered a Buffalo LinkStation Mini 240 GB SSD NAS to review. Will be interesting to see what a pair of SSD's do to NAS performance.
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will also be interesting to see how fast the performance and condition of the SSD's in that NAS degrade to a point where they are pooped and need changing ?
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Yes I was wondering how they will handle trim. Unless they have built in garbage collection like some do. Though given the price they charge for the unit I can't imagine there will be any customers buying it anyway
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Well it was released in 2009 and the cheapest I can find it for is £600 from the few places I could find it. From those who have tried it, it has been panned almost universally.
It arrived today and in fairness it is tiny. But you can't open it up to get at the ssd's. A synology DS212j plus two 120gb SSD's would only cost about £350 and be infinately better than the buffalo enclosure.
It arrived today and in fairness it is tiny. But you can't open it up to get at the ssd's. A synology DS212j plus two 120gb SSD's would only cost about £350 and be infinately better than the buffalo enclosure.
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The only problem with thAt welsh is ......garbage collection. Does Syn's DRM support it?
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Not that I can see. The ssd would need inbuilt garbage collection, which some do. I only use that as an example of how poor the buffalo unit is in contrast to a cheaper better alternative. I really dont think at this time there is any advantage to going ssd over mechanical .