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hi all,
just a bit of advice on which one to buy, lots of conflicting remarks so not sure which one to go for.
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As with everything, what do you want to do with one? Or two, or three ;) you need to give a lot more requirements if you want to get sensible responses.
 
thanks for the reply, i didnt know there was anything else you could do except store stuff on them.
thats what i want to do but so many to chose from just looking for some help in choosing the best one.
 
billozz said:
thanks for the reply, i didnt know there was anything else you could do except store stuff on them.
thats what i want to do but so many to chose from just looking for some help in choosing the best one.
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Speed, size, method of acces, redundancy and so on. But most of all what do you want it for? What is the problem you are trying to resolve.
 
i would like to ensure my pics are stored somewhere safe and that they can be transferred wirelessly, as long as its quite a speedy transfer, probably 3 tb size, not sure what redundancy means, i am not trying to resolve a problem, just wanting to know what other members think of them and looking for their recommendations really, dont have a budget in mind as such. not sure what you mean (neil_g) by includin or excluding drives. thanks for the replies
 
technically all can be accessed wirelessly (the cabled ones just plug into your router network ports), i wouldnt expect transferring lots of data to be massively fast however.

what i mean by with or without disks is that you can buy the enclosures and disks separately so that you can expand as your storage grows.

remember sticking all of your data on a network drive is no safer than any other hard drive, it still needs backing up.
 
If it's for personal backup just get 2 of whateve you get

Buffalo are good
My cloud drives are ok

Best go for synology but they are more expensive.
 
I haven't heard anything about sharing and access from multiple machines yet. So if that is not required I would go for a normal USB3 connected external drive. Is much faster, uses less energy, is much cheaper.
 
andyscott said:
If it's for personal backup just get 2 of whateve you get

Buffalo are good
My cloud drives are ok

Best go for synology but they are more expensive.
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No the consumer end Buffalo NAS drives are not good.
 
I have a 4 Bay qnap that has all my pictures on a drive and backed up on another. 8gb in total.

One suggestion is that you slim down the 3tb, you can bet that not all of them are keepers...
 
andyscott said:
Disagree mine have been running for years
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The webGUI is awful.
And couple I had the fun of moving data to topped out at 35 MB/s - performance was dire.

Pale imitation of the Synology DS I had at the time.

These days I have a Buffalo Linkstation Pro (or some such) to occasionally tinker with. Again, the WebGUI is shocking and handling of ACLs has it's foibles.

In terms of suggestions for the OP, I'd look at a Syno/QNAP NAS of appropriate size and either backup to external USB / Cloud. If money is no object, buy two and schedule a nightly backup between them. Backups should be set-up and forget, save for occasionally checking/testing them.
 
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Just some notes that may be of interest:

With mine in the living room, noise is important to me. (and the family). My Western Digital drives are fan-less and have a silent, cold, sleep mode. Which they are in as soon as the backups have completed. And power saving is important too.

The Western Digital drives have been super reliable. I didn't buy them for performance though, so the backups might take a little longer. At £149.99, 4TB seems good value at the moment.

I plug them directly into the home router with a wire. You can set them up to access them via the internet when away, if that's your thing.
 
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