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

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.