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Anyone here use NAS (Network Accessible Storage) devices?

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Dawgz Rule:
Been running a Synology for a few years now and love it.  Lots of nice features.

lilshawn:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on April 04, 2013, 05:31:15 pm ---I do have a Gigabit router, although the rest of my network is currently 10/100 due to older h/w (switches and NICs).  I'll probably upgrade those sooner or later.

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don't worry. as long as everyone is connected to switches, the 100 speed they get is lots. in a home network, it's actually pretty hard to saturate it unless you are for some reason buffering entire videos before playback. streaming is f-all.

edekoning:
I've have a Synology 110J. Its only got one bay, but I don't really need much storage, and did not want to use raid. After a few days the NAS started acting weird. I contacted Synology support about it, and they were very helpful. In the end it was my HDD that was faulty. After replacing it I have never had anymore problems. What is also great about Synology are the frequent software updates.

I use my NAS mostly for streaming photos/videos/music to my WDTV/Sonos/Xbox360, and some occasional downloading of large/slow files.

shponglefan:
Thanks for all the replies everyone.  It sounds like Synology is the way to go, so I'll see if I can find a DS213 soon.

For HDs I'm thinking a pair of standard 3TB or 4TB Seagate Barracuda's.  Although it seems like the 4TB versions are only 5900RPM, whereas the 3TB versions are 7200RPM...

lilshawn:
with data packed on the platters as tight as they are on the 4gb drives, it needn't go very fast to perform the same.

less RPM's usually means less heat too.

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