Tell me about NAS - Options?

[davekiddle]

I've got to the stage where I need to purchase some more storage and I have been thinking about going for a NAS. Probably thinking of a ready made rather than an old PC set up, unles you think otherwise?

Anyone care to share their experiances and offer advice/options?

Thanks in advance

 

[SimonUK]

I brought a HP Microserver on a cash back offer 8/9 months ago, for 100 quid. Was like 230 with 100 cash back

Brought 5 2tb drives(when they were cheap) and a 8gb flash drive. Installed FreeNAS on the Flashdrive, and whack in all the hard drives. Work out at like 400 quid, maybe a little less. But works great and is silent.

So good infact, that when me and my dad finished building this one (he pay'ed ) we built a second to back it up with

Chucked em, in the loft, power and network cables to both.

Easy peasy

They acutally run Win7 pretty well aswell.... Cheap PC hah

 

[neil_g]

looooooads of threads on this

have a search for "synology" "qnap" or "drobo" and youll get some useful stuff back.

 

[Mike Savage]

I have used a couple of DLink units for years and been very impressed.
I have just bought two 6Tb Western Digitial units and have one backing up to the other daily and so far no problems.

 

[Revdarny]

I have a Synology DS212+ easy to set up. Interface is very easy to use and there are plenty of apps you can use with it as well.

Here's a review http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2012/02/27/synology-ds212-review/1

 

[Bambi72]

Have a look at a Linksys Slug if you already own any USB HDD's, not sure if they do a gigabit version, I have one someone in the loft but its only 100Mb which is painfully slow unless you are just using it for overnight backups.