Im thinking about setting up 2 NASs 1 for all my stuff and a 2nd for a backup of all my stuff, can run a script weekly to copy it or whatever.
Are these any good? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NAS-SERVER-3-5-HDD-Network-enclosure-SAMBA-FTP-USB-LAN_W0QQitemZ120072367456QQihZ002QQcategoryZ96894QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Are there cheaper alternatives?
Im gonna sound like a n00b here but does the samba let you map them like any other network drive?
Cheers
The ones knighty and other people have got they all seem to swear by them. So wait for a knighty reply tho :)
Yeah just found the post: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LAN-USB-File-FTP-Samba-NAS-SERVER-3-5-HDD-Hard-Disk_W0QQitemZ150078804022QQihZ005QQcategoryZ1484QQcmdZViewItem these
yeah, the ones most people on here got a little while back are pretty good, and nice for the price :)
I think there all pretty juch the same tho, the only real problem is the 3.5meg/sec transfer speed youll get, other than that ive never had a problem and Ive got 3 :)
tho oen did crash once... Id left it going over night with 1pc cuting and pasting 120gig from it... and another copying 100gig onto it at the same time :)
(so as one emptied it the other filled it up)
quick reset and all was well :)
p.s. NEXUS bought one from the same seller which came out after everyone else bought them.... and it might be a faster one ?
tho tbh, speeds not a problem when there just for backups / dumps for old stuff :)
was gonna try and play music and video off it should be ok tho the speed isnt that slow
I can watch a DVD from one of mine no problems :)
its only really a problem if you want to copy stuff onto/from it all the time and wait for it to finish.... if I need to doa lot I queue it up in flashFXP then leave it going when I go to bed :)
hi,
sorry for digging up an old thread, but i was wondering what people thought of the NAS drive recommended by knighty, has anybody had any problems with it.
Would you still recommend this drive, i was thinking of making a purchase on ebay?
cheers,
dawlton.
mine was lost on its way from hong kong, waiting for a replacement.
Mines going back. Wont always detect the drive and loses network settings all the time.
thanks guys for your replies, im still debating whether to get a NAS drive. I dont think theres many NAS drives out there that have not got problems.
Mines still stuck in the box, I just chucked another RAID card in my server and went for JBOD :)
hmm, mine are perfect 99% of the time.... then balls up for 24hours .... then perfect again :(
I think it depends on how much you use them.... leave it going copying 100gig over and itll balls up
just do a few gigs now and again and its fine.
I do have a Maxtor nas drive I bought from vini with a 120gig drive in it.... and it runs perfectly, never had a single peoblem with it at all !
but I cant find empty ones anywhere :(
rats.. maybe i shoulda got a refund when mine went missing :( the "quality" ones will no doubt cost a fortune
i got a customer one of These (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=487729)
Seems to work well, its storing TS profiles and personal network drives on a 320Gb disk. Seems to work well, he wanted a cheap solution as his Very Expensive Dell one died out of warranty. I know its not up to SCSI level performance or reliability, but the fact Dell wanted near 2k for a replacement kind of swung the deal.
I use my old PC as a NAS box - has a tiny O/S on it called FreeNAS - http://www.freenas.org I think is the website.
works really well, uses CIFS / Samba for Windoze and AFP for my Macbook, so anything can talk to it.
Total cost of Ã,£0 is always nice 8)
^^ yep Im going back to doing that :)
tho I use NasLite .... cant remember why I chose it over FreeNas.... I think there was an extra feature I wanted that only NasLite had.... plus it was only Ã,£8 iirc
(first software Ive paid for in a good 10 years!)
dont have the space for a full sized pc to run a NAS
stick it in the loft etc...
mines going in the celler :-)
(so I don;t have to listen to the fans/hds running !)