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Anyone here use NAS (Network Accessible Storage) devices?
Howard_Casto:
uTorrent is still around man. It's my primary torrent client.
ChadTower:
I still use uTorrent.
kahlid74:
I have a Synology (4 disk) and QNAP(2 Disk) systems. Both work well. I've also built FreeNAS and Openfiler system in the past (never again, their performance is so piss poor). I currently now run a 4U server chassis with an Adaptec card and Nexenta OS. I still use the Synology and QNAP for stuff like 3D printing archives/Laser cutting/MP3's but I've since moved all other services onto a new SAN I built. The speeds with the Synology/QNAP were still too slow for me.
For you, if you're looking for simplicity, you can't go wrong with Synology. QNap is a little pricier but they work very well too. Lots of features.
Be careful with size of disks right, a 2 disk mirror at 3/4TB could take days to build on one of these systems. Slower processors and fixed memory with resource containers preventing faster array builds/rebuilds. If you go 3/4TB make sure you backup your data.
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on April 08, 2013, 10:34:39 am ---For you, if you're looking for simplicity, you can't go wrong with Synology. QNap is a little pricier but they work very well too. Lots of features.
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I ended up ordering the DS213; Synology sounds ideal for my purpose.
--- Quote ---Be careful with size of disks right, a 2 disk mirror at 3/4TB could take days to build on one of these systems. Slower processors and fixed memory with resource containers preventing faster array builds/rebuilds. If you go 3/4TB make sure you backup your data.
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Why does it take so long? Or rather, what is taking place that takes so long?
I plan to buy a pair of fresh 4 TB drives and set them up in RAID 1, so there won't be any initial data to mirror. Then I'm just going to copy files bit by bit until I eventually get all my necessary data onto the drives.
Insofar as data backup, I have an external 1 TB drive (USB 3.0) which I was thinking of hooking up just to backup more critical data like personal project files. Stuff that I really don't want to lose, as I realize RAID 1 won't protect against stuff like data corruption or accidently deletion. I'm hoping the backup features of the DS213 will allow for that option and that doing weekly backups will be enough.
Gray_Area:
How does security work (differently) in this circumstance?
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