Comments on: Any NAS recommendations?

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:24:18 +0000

Desperately seeking a no longer wanted old Maxtor shared storage plus drive. My one’s power supply board has gone wrong but the drive is still OK, Can’t find any other way of reading data off my drive other than getting a similar old one and putting my drive in it. Please help anyone!?

By: Dan Hughes

Dan Hughes — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:36:26 +0000

Netgear’s ReadyNAS line is what I’ve been looking at myself. They recently introduced a Duo model that features gigabit ethernet, UPnP server, iTunes share compatibility and a built-in BitTorrent client. Only downside is that it only has 2 drive bays. Price starts at $500 for the unit and one 500GB drive.

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASDuo.aspx

By: Jeremy Toeman’s LIVEdigitally » Blog Archive » The Toemeister! Makin’ Copies! Toemaramaman!

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:47:38 +0000

[...] own a portable HDD (Seagate Freeagent), a NAS (Maxtor Shared Storage plus – probably replacing soon), and a Drobo. I also have an Infrant ReadyNAS at my office. This is, in a word, massively [...]

By: Paul Sop

Paul Sop — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:55:48 +0000

The Dlink DNS-323 (I think that’s it) is good:

- Quiet
- Power-saver mode
- Does the uPnP
- Browser based configuration (formatting, users, shares, time, dhcp, yada yada)
- Does the streaming (just dump music in a directory — it acts like an iTunes server)
- Works with Windows and a Mac (although the initial basic setup util is windows only — i ran it on my Mac on an emulator). After 2 seconds with the initial setup, it’s all browser based.
- I have two 1TB drives in mine (it does the mirroring, striping, two separate disks, etc…) It’s 1.9 TB formatted
- It has a Gigabit interface. One of the few that do.
- You can share printers off of its USB (works pretty well)
- Has many other features. You can put new software on it too.

I am very happy with mine. Cost about 200 bucks without drives! I’ve bought a few for the office and friends too.

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:12:43 +0000

cheaper and better to build a little pc

use a motherboard with ich9r…
raid5 6 disks max…

many many choices of os’s

ram is practically free these days… 4gb costs like $70
a dual core processor… $125

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:53:49 +0000

I have a 750GB Maxtor USB drive hooked up to my Apple Airport Extreme. Unfortunately, that router is in major need of a firmware update – sometimes the drive is visible, sometimes it’s not and transfer times seem too slow.

By: Patrick S.

Patrick S. — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:43:15 +0000

Well, I do admit that I love the Buffalo gear … But for other options, I run 2 good old Linksys NSLU2 that requires hacking (but it’s easier than making toasts in the morning) to fulfill the needs I inherited a HP MV2010 which is surprisingly a great product (too bad HP is dropping it). Does all that is required and is just plain simple to use. My bet is that is going to be dirt cheap since the HP moved to a new line.
Patrick S.

By: CBO

CBO — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:02:49 +0000

Right now it still has some quirks that I read about here and there. But I would suggest Windows home server it is very flexible. In case you want to DIY it just to your liking or buy one from HP right know that support streaming to your xbox also the hp one i think has an Itunes server app tossed in. One article stated thats it not fast compared to most NASes but it very functional. So I guess its a trade off thats worth it.