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Recommendations for NAS
After concluding that I cannot afford an LTO-5 tape backup (who can?) and learning that BDXL Blu-Ray is just too darned tricky, I have settled on the obvious - a NAS. OK, now here's my problem. Every NAS seems to get both positive and negative reviews, the negative ones I believe to be coming from home users who are not tech savvy.
Briefly my requirements are simple:
1) 2 bays - that will accommodate 2 X 3 TB or 2 X 4 TB HDD's
2) A diskless NAS - I prefer to buy my HDD's separately
The major NAS manufacturers (most respected) are:
1) Synology – Synology DiskStation 2-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage DS213
http://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-Diskless-Attached-DS213/dp/B008U68UHG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1370915361&sr=8-4&keywords=DS212j
2) Netgear
3) Iomega
4) Qnap
5) Buffalo
Right now I'm leaning toward the Syology (hence the link).
What do you more knowledgeable guys think? I could really use some sage advice here.
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One final and critical question: I built a computer for a kid (misguided altruism) who turned out to be more interested in being a rap music star or debuting on the TV show First 48 Hours.
Anyway this computer is pretty nice: ASUS M5A97 Evo - AM3+ - 970 - SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 with an AMD Quad Core CPU and 8 GB DDR-3 RAM.
If I sell it on eBay, I probably won't get my money back. So my question:
Would I be better off to buy the Snology that I mentioned before or should I just download the NAS software and load this computer with lots of HDD's?
Last edited by incurablegeek; 11 Jun 2013 at 12:58.