Thread: Recommend me an NAS HDD...

Originally Posted by TraumaOne

So you wouldn't want this then I guess...

HP MediaSmart Server ex475 Desktop reviews - CNET Reviews

I bought the turd I have based partly upon the high CNET rating...

Have you been happy with yours?

LaCie - Ethernet Big Disk

Originally Posted by OSIRIS

LaCie - Ethernet Big Disk

Interesting....

The review says the HDD never spins down...is it noisy?

I had one of these for a short time and I liked it, but the nas is a love/hate thing for me cause it's just not as hot as direct connections.

My Book World Edition II 1 TB Hard Drives ( WDG2NC10000 )


edit: I lie, it wasnt a World II...I am trying to find out what I had, think it was the World (1?). I don't think what I had had the GigE connection or RAID...but seeing this has me interested again, as those were two features I was bugging out about it not having for the price I paid.

Originally Posted by Baketech

Interesting....

The review says the HDD never spins down...is it noisy?

Don't know. I don't have one but a guy I work with does...I'll ask him today. He did say it's really nice and the GB interface is the shizz

LaCie quality is usually high.

Originally Posted by SheepOfBlue

LaCie quality is usually high.

As in their QA team, or quality of their products?

Ergh...
Just opened it up to find that it is the system disk and not the fan making noise....

Originally Posted by SomeStrangeGuy

As in their QA team, or quality of their products?

Product quality and support have been excellant the times I have dealt with them. I have gotten stuff about 5 times over a 20 year span. Far from scientific but the results were always excellant.

Network Attached Storage - NetStor WSS R2 NAS

I'm enjoying reading this thread. I still don't even have a single clue what is even being talked about. I finally figured out it was computer related when Bake talked about system disk and fan.

Originally Posted by OSIRIS

LaCie - Ethernet Big Disk

Or this one...

LaCie - 2big Network (2-disk RAID) - Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbits

Originally Posted by slickwill

I'm enjoying reading this thread. I still don't even have a single clue what is even being talked about. I finally figured out it was computer related when Bake talked about system disk and fan.

NAS = Network Attached Storage
HDD = Hard Disk Drive

See post #14.

Originally Posted by TraumaOne

something like that.. but cheaper

Do you know ubuntu?

Originally Posted by SomeStrangeGuy

Do you know ubuntu?

Sounds like a pygmy name.

we're finding iSCSI to be a good NAS protocol. Bonding GBE interfaces on a dedicated LAN is quite snappy.

Openfiler
Openfiler is a good VM appliance that supports iSCSI

Newegg.com - Rosewill R2-RAID Dual 3.5" SATA 3G HDD 2-Bay RAID 0/1/BIG/JBOD/SAFE33/SAFE55 System/ USB2.0 & eSATA Output Design - Server RAID Systems

This is pretty much what I've been looking for(minus the network connectivity ). The heat issue is something to be concerned about but that's probably pretty easily rectifiable.

I just recently picked up one of these QNAP Systems, Inc. ( TS-219P Turbo NAS ) - Quality Network Appliance Provider to host my data. Very impressed with it so far.

Get a new Mac Mini Server and 4 of these OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 eSATA,FireWir... (MEQX2KIT0GB) at OWC

Baaawahahahahahaha!

So could I get something like this to put all of my music on and then access it from my laptop via my wireless network? I have 250ish Gigs of music and only a 60Gig hard drive in my laptop. I keep the music on an external HD and just pick and choose every few months.

I bought one of these and a spare 500gb drive last year:
Newegg.com - Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 500GB (1 x 500GB) Network Storage (NAS) w/ Gigabit & speeds up to 25MBps - Network Storage (NAS)

I am about to upgrade to 1.5tb later this month.
So far I have been happy with it aside from the fact it's AFP&Bonjour (Apple things) seems to be somewhat sproadic in functionality. Of course, I only have one Mac in the house so not really sure if it's the Mac or the NAS...so I never really blamed either.

Anyways, it's fast and works well, I am pleased overall. Have it plugged into my UPS and works very well with it's own managed uptime/downtime schedule. Despite it's odd functionality listed above, it does work with Time Machine just fine

Originally Posted by slickwill

So could I get something like this to put all of my music on and then access it from my laptop via my wireless network? I have 250ish Gigs of music and only a 60Gig hard drive in my laptop. I keep the music on an external HD and just pick and choose every few months.

Yes, and then some.
NAS is just network attached storage, typically 1 drive and a network interface. The units Z and I posted are actually NAS RAID arrays offering 2 drives to store the data on for redundancy.

Originally Posted by slickwill

So could I get something like this to put all of my music on and then access it from my laptop via my wireless network? I have 250ish Gigs of music and only a 60Gig hard drive in my laptop. I keep the music on an external HD and just pick and choose every few months.

Yep.

Originally Posted by SomeStrangeGuy

I bought one of these and a spare 500gb drive last year:
Newegg.com - Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 500GB (1 x 500GB) Network Storage (NAS) w/ Gigabit & speeds up to 25MBps - Network Storage (NAS)

I am about to upgrade to 1.5tb later this month.
So far I have been happy with it aside from the fact it's AFP&Bonjour (Apple things) seems to be somewhat sproadic in functionality. Of course, I only have one Mac in the house so not really sure if it's the Mac or the NAS...so I never really blamed either.

Anyways, it's fast and works well, I am pleased overall. Have it plugged into my UPS and works very well with it's own managed uptime/downtime schedule. Despite it's odd functionality listed above, it does work with Time Machine just fine

That's the one I was going to get but realized that I needed iSCSI for what I want to use it for and had to go with something different.