Comments on: Choosing a Storage Device Isn’t Easy

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:52:57 +0000

Hey Sal,

have you checked the Artigo A2000 yet? It’s pretty sweet. I might bring one home here soon. Super low wattage, run your OS from CF card, 2 full-size 3.5″ drives. Not bad IMHO. We did an article on setting up FreeNAS as well. It’s fairly straightforward.

cheers!
-chris

http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2008/12/29/freenas-on-the-artigo-a2000/

http://www.logicsupply.com/blog/2008/12/29/the-via-home-mini-vault/

By: Al

Al — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:56:29 +0000

I friend of mine raves about the ReadyNAS devices – at least the Pro version which he says works great with Apple Time Machine as well as Windows clients. They also have gotten some of the best transfer rates of the NAS devices I’ve read about and almost bought one myself. Has tons features but it was a bit pricey IMO. You may consider building your own from an older PC and just putting in a few upgrades.

By: arghyle » Blog Archive » Failed Attempt at an iTunes Server

arghyle » Blog Archive » Failed Attempt at an iTunes Server — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:25:55 +0000

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By: ario

ario — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:09:46 +0000

Just picked up the Duo with 2 one-tb drives today… can’t wait to set it up tonight!

thanks for your post… hope it can help others who may also be wringing their hands over this

By: Sal Cangeloso

Sal Cangeloso — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:53:39 +0000

I put in two 750gb disks so using RAID1, I have 750GB. I was lucky enough to have a matched pair lying around from an old project, pretty nice Seagate drives too.

I’d skip the WD My Books, they are very basic and performance is not great. I have checked out the WD ShareSpace which is a 4-disk NAS and is very user friendly.

If you want 2TB+ you are going to go with a 4-disk NAS so lots of those you mentioned, aside from the ReadyNAS NV and Drobo, are out. If you can deal with less, then the ReadyNas Duo is supposed to be great.

By: ario

ario — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:29:41 +0000

Ah, that looks like a nifty option. How much did it end up setting you back including drives? (and what’s your total storage?)

I’m looking at the Drobo (w/ DroboShare), ReadyShare NV & Duo, and these lesser known options:

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/linkstation/linkstation-live/

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=208286770&listingid=32496021&dcaid=17902

I’m trying to keep everything under $800 and wind up with something reliable that can scale up to additional storage (between 2-3 TB mirrored to start with). Let me know if you have any further insights or opinions on these options!

By: Sal Cangeloso

Sal Cangeloso — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:29:31 +0000

Hey Ario, I ended up with the Synology DS207, at least for the time being. It has a lot of features (probably too many) and all the reviews I read on it were good. It’s been working out fine so far and there was a firmware update not too long ago, so it’s nice to see that they are paying attention to it.

What devices are you considering?

By: ario

ario — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:27:23 +0000

Just curious as to what you ended up going with and what your final reasons were…

By: Sal Cangeloso

Sal Cangeloso — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:31:50 +0000

Hey Alan, it’s the DS207+ for now. Working out pretty well, but I’m still thinking the Drobo would have been super easy to use compared to the Synology which is PACKED with features. I don’t think you can go wrong with the ReadyNas though.

By: Alan Wong

Alan Wong — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:17:41 +0000

I tend to overanalyse too! *grin*

But seriously, it’s a real headache thinking about storage. Plus the fact that RAID is not a backup.

I like the DS 207+ as well (AUD460). It’s got eSATA which might helpful when I back up the NAS.

ReadyNAS Duo (500GB, AUD485)…..wondering if it’s got DLNA support which might swing it for me. Heard good things about ReadyNAS on Mac forums as well. I know people don’t like the fact that it comes with a drive but I can always use it to upgrade my desktop HDD! heehee

So what did you buy in the end?