Recommend a simple NAS

[panteragstk]

I'm needing some sort of external NAS to use as a backup destination as well as music storage because that is the most important thing I have. All I want is a simple NAS that will mirror, has 2 drive bays, and Ethernet interface. That's it.

I found this little guy, but the reviews are not very good.

What are you guys using?

[razrsharpe]

twice as much money for a 2 bay but i really like synology. Like this one. Will definitely do mirroring, it can also act as an itunes server and serve your music to all your itunes clients (if itunes is your thing anyway )

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

twice as much money for a 2 bay but i really like synology. Like this one. Will definitely do mirroring, it can also act as an itunes server and serve your music to all your itunes clients (if itunes is your thing anyway )

That one looks perfect. It has the features I want, plus it actually supports 3tb hard drives. Thanks.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

That one looks perfect. It has the features I want, plus it actually supports 3tb hard drives. Thanks.

np i have the big brother (4 drives) and i like it quite a bit. I wanted to splurge for the 411+ for the faster write speeds but couldn't justify the premium.

Here is a nice comparison between the different synology units

You can also check out www.smallnetbuilder.com for their comparisons and reviews.

[flavius]

I have been running this and this for over a year now without issues.

[panteragstk]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Now I just need to make a decision.

[icon123]

I use an un-raid server at home for keeping my media on. I use crashplan to back up my laptops to the un-raid server at home. I was then looking at using a remote nas to backup my important media files from my home un-raid server.

What I did was build another low end un-raid server and keep it at work. It cost me about $150.00 for parts (not inlcuding the HDDs) and using the free un-raid license, I have (2) 1TB data drives and (1) 1TB parity drive. I also backup my un-raid server at home and my laptops to my un-raid server at work using Crashplan via the internet.

Its really cool and easier than it may sound. Just giving you another perspective. Good luck.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by icon123

I use an un-raid server at home for keeping my media on. I use crashplan to back up my laptops to the un-raid server at home. I was then looking at using a remote nas to backup my important media files from my home un-raid server.

What I did was build another low end un-raid server and keep it at work. It cost me about $150.00 for parts (not inlcuding the HDDs) and using the free un-raid license, I have (2) 1TB data drives and (1) 1TB parity drive. I also backup my un-raid server at home and my laptops to my un-raid server at work using Crashplan via the internet.

Its really cool and easier than it may sound. Just giving you another perspective. Good luck.

What's funny is I am going to be building an unraid server, but wanted something simple and small that I could use in addition to unraid. I might build an additional unraid box with spare parts (assuming I don't find something else for them to do).

Thanks.

[davephan]

I also use unRAID to backup and store files. I also use Acronis on-line backup for some of the files.

You might think about building the unRAID server, and perhaps a second unRAID server for more redundancy. Or an unRAID server plus USB hard drives. You could synchronize the backups with free version of SyncBack.

Dave