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If you're looking for some extra storage space for your growing collection of photo's. Then may I recomend USB Tech as I ordered the following drive from them.

250gb 3.5 USB portable hard drive M250-3572 @£82.84 including P&P

http://www.usbtech.co.uk

Ordered on Thursday of last week and received it yesterday a very quick no fuss service.
 
I'll be getting something similar to that soon mrgrubby - click!.
Well, I already have it - just need to get some drives in it now!
Won't actually be used for more than one machine, I just prefer to use it over USB.
 
Hoodi - let me know how the Netgear performs. I have a Buffalo Terrastation which is s-l-o-w. Some of that is due to the RAID but I think a lot is because even 100BaseT network is much slower than, say, USB. It's fine for backups but I wouldn't want to work on large files off it.

I'm upgrading the network to gigabit today and I'm hoping that will fix it.
 
250Gb LaCie USB2 HDD for £69.99 inc VAT here
 
Have to say I like the idea of the network drive with print server. Would stop the 'I want to print something is the computer on?' questions :)

MrGubby (see I got it right;) ) can you just plug a usb printer into the buffalo unit - and is it any slower than a normal network file transfer in use?

edit: This one looks quite good ..... just tested my link and the site seems to have crashed :) Anyway it's a WD 500Gb NAS with print server and backup software for about £200
 
JonathanRyan said:
Hoodi - let me know how the Netgear performs. I have a Buffalo Terrastation which is s-l-o-w. Some of that is due to the RAID but I think a lot is because even 100BaseT network is much slower than, say, USB. It's fine for backups but I wouldn't want to work on large files off it.

I'm upgrading the network to gigabit today and I'm hoping that will fix it.
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Have been using two of those Netgear SC101's for over a year now, here's a simple summing up from my experience with them.

Pros:
The price
You supply your own drives, meaning you can build it to suit.
Near silent (when accessing), is silent when idle.
Simple to setup.
Drive mirroring

Cons:
You have to use a stupid Netgear frontend for access, although if you do this on one PC and you can share it as another drive - cant just plug it in and give it an IP address.
Gets warm - not been a problem yet, but it does get noticeably hot.
Only has a 100Mbit connection, 1Gbp as an option would have been a good idea.
Uses a native drive format - not sure how easy this maybe be if the PSU failed or something relatively simple and you needed the data off the disks.
Regular updates (This could be a pro or a con - shows good support, but can be a nuissance in their frequency).

Roughly sums up my opinions of these units, have these running for over a year without any problems, good for the price, simple to use, have their niggles, but generally satisifed:thumbs:
 
What kind of transfer speeds are you getting?

It's not that I'm obsessed or anything :nuts: but I have been VERY disappointed with my Terrastation. Yesterday I upgraded the LAN so I did some timings - they really aren't great.

To transfer 1.2GB from fast internal hard drive to the Terrastation used to take 7mins 45s on 100 BaseT. Now I'm on gigabit I was hoping for <1min but it's only down to about 4mins 30s. Going the other way is less than 3 mins so I can tell the Raid is slowing it down a bit but really I'd hoped for a LOT better.
 
Times Im getting through a 100Mbit LAN are as follows

For 2Gb Mpeg file:

From SC101 to PC: 5m 20s
From PC to SC101 : 6m 19s
From PC HDD to 2nd PC HDD: 1m 00s

HDDs in the PC are standard 7,200RPM 8Mb SATA150 drives.
While the drives in the SC101 are standard 7,200RPM ATA100 drives.
(All Hitachi's)

Not blistering, but adequate as a backup container :)
 
RobertP said:
MrGubby (see I got it right;) ) can you just plug a usb printer into the buffalo unit - and is it any slower than a normal network file transfer in use?
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My Buffalo unit seems to hate Elements , browsing is sloooow until it's created the thumbnails for that folder but it's ok after that :thinking: . Printing is just a plug-in & set windows to use network printer .

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Warspite , if you look at your network stats , how much bandwidth is being used during file transfer ???
 
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