Recommend me a NAS for Windows/Mac

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Ideally I would only need it for Mac, but at the moment it has to be for Windows and Mac. So if it can work as backup for Windows and work with Apple's Time Machine - then that would be perfect.

Capacity - loads, prefer ethernet, and/or firewire, raid if not too expensive.

I have done some research, and am interested in a Drobo, or a ReadyNas.

But before I splash more cash, wanted to know if anyone had a recommendation, better idea ????

Through a few years of work / tinkering I have quite a few spare IDE and Sata drives, which could be used in a NAS enclosure.

I am most definitely not interested in a Netgear SC101.

Any recommendations ?

cheers
Aaron
 
NAS

I've been using the following 2 NAS setups both 2TB both seem very good but you did not specify any price range so these may not be the cheapest bits of kit. Both have internal controllers and 2 HDDs.Used the LaCie on a windows based network and the Western digital on a Mac

2Tb LaCie Ethernet Big Disk Gigabit & USB2 NAS (7200rpm, 16MB) £382.46

2000Gb Western Digital My Book World II Edition with Gigabit Ethernet - Shared Solution £303.02

I'm sure there all much of a muchness, got these prices from www.scan.co.uk who have a good range of NAS's and prices are usually competitive so i would check them out (follow the networking selection at top of page).They also have a range of NAS enclosures if you want to use your spare drives up.

Hope that might be helpful.......:)
 
Thanks for that EPP.

I forgot to add the budget - max of £500, with or without drives.

I'm not really interested in cheap, just very reliable and nothing proprietary, so that hopefully in the event of a device/drive failuer I can rebuild/retrieve the data.

Will have a look at the WD setup you mentioned

Thanks
 
I've just stuck on a ReadyNAS Duo... like it quite a lot... Lots of latitude to get creative, but it does seem to work great at being a back-up server.

Al...
 
Re: the Drobo - I've read that if the device packs up, then there is virtually no way to get back your data - because it is proprietary. And I have already been down that road with another network storage device, thankfully I managed to retrieve the data, but never again. Reports on the Drobo seem mixed- with the general view to wait for V2, and only if it has ethenet & firewire built in.

Good to hear the ReadyNAs Duo is good - looking quite seriously at one of those - as I cannot spring for the ReadyNAS NV just yet.
 
re NAS box,
I have a time capsule which works a treat, just need to allow the wireless router see it and then accept it onto network, then all done- it appears as a network drive. only one glitch so far- it tends to struggle if you just try and dump 20-30GB in one big lump, better to split into smaller [2-5GB] lumps
 
AaronDay said:
Re: the Drobo - I've read that if the device packs up, then there is virtually no way to get back your data - because it is proprietary. And I have already been down that road with another network storage device, thankfully I managed to retrieve the data, but never again. Reports on the Drobo seem mixed- with the general view to wait for V2, and only if it has ethenet & firewire built in.

Good to hear the ReadyNAs Duo is good - looking quite seriously at one of those - as I cannot spring for the ReadyNAS NV just yet.
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re: the drobo. Id suspect thats the case for any NAS box which employs a RAID type solution... on the other hand its going to be more robust than a non-RAID solution relying upon a single drive, or worse spanning more than one drive.
 
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