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patrickl:

--- Quote from: Cakemeister on September 20, 2007, 09:33:12 am ---There was another NAS from Infrant (now they've been bought out by Netgear) called the ReadyNAS, but that one is supposed to be very noisy.

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I have the ReadyNAS. It's very fast, but you can hear it yes. Although I read that the new model is more quiet.

It depends on what you compare it to though. It makes a lot less noise than a computer. I guess if you want it in your livingroom as a media server then it might be an issue, but as a fileserver it's inaudible compared to all the other stuff there.

BTW I was afraid of my NAS breaking down too, but I saw that the ReadyNAS basically uses Linux softraid (with some specialized hardware to speed things up) So that means the disks will be readable in a Linux box. Maybe the Terastation uses the same? Or something else that makes the disks readable in another machine. Be very careful though since you don't want to break the stripe set.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 20, 2007, 09:36:04 am ---I just write it all out to DVD about once a month, the whole set of photos, two copies each time.  Movies/mp3 I don't really care much about, certainly not enough to spend $700 to back up $500 worth of DVDs and CDs.  The family stuff, though, we don't have hundreds of gigs of stuff, so DVDs are just fine for us and have a lower failure rate than any hard drive.

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Sizzler wanted to get away from that and asked for something automated. An extra harddisk is $50 to $100.

Trouble with DVDs is that you cannot back everything up (or at least not without a lot of effort). I have 60GB of pictures.

shmokes:
The Terastation is quiet.  Mine is sitting in my entertainment center under the TV with all the other components and I can't hear it.  But I suppose this is going to be a function of what hard drives they choose to populate it with to a large degree.  Mine has Seagate drives in it, and Seagate is known for silent drives, but Buffalo very likely uses different drives in different production runs depending on supply/cost issues.  So if you end up with one using Maxtor or WD or Hitachi drives, who knows?

boykster:
I use hardware RAID5 running on 2 linux fileservers for my storage, but for system backups, I really really like Acronis True Image....I use it to make bare-metal backups of my HTPC's (for quick redeployment in case of a drive failure) and for my primary workstation.....

not free, but definately worth the $$$

Cakemeister:
I did some research on various NASes and I found six options that fit my own needs (2 terabytes, raid 5)

All prices from newegg.

1) Buffalo Terastation - $885 without drives
2) Build your own - $variable depending on parts, but you need a motherboard or NIC that can do gigabit ethernet plus a motherboard or card that can do raid 5, software also varies in cost depending on if you buy windows or use linux. I believe time costs are substantial here because I don't know of any plug and play NAS software for linux.
3) Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ $849 without drives
4) Synology CS407e - $529 without drives. This one does not have the LCD display that the Terastation and the ReadyNAS do, nor is it hot-swappable.
5) Thecus NS5200BR - $680 without drives.
6) VisionMan  VisionVault $1134 plus shipping, includes drives, direct from visionman.com.

All of these have their pluses and minuses. I really want to add my own drives (Samsung Spinpoint HD501L, they run cool and quiet, give adequate performance, and are not that pricey).

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