Reply to: NAS drive

[SimonD]

Actually I have a couple of the Terastation Pro IIs and I love em, never given me a moments problem, I currently have 4x1.5tb disks in them (so 8 disks in all), one is the master and syncs all the data to the slave device.

I also have an OpenFiler box that works wonders for my vSphere box as well.

[AtW]

Are they decent reliable drives now? Lost about 7 IBM drives to that problem, so never bought one again!

Yeah I had that tulip at the time, but now they are pretty soil - IBM bailed out and Hitachi took over, they are actually very good - it helped them keep high 1 TB "enterprise" disk prices for a long time, but they lost out on density game so they had to catch up and make good 2 TB disks that are very cheap now - bought 20 more today and we've got so far maybe 60 of them: none failed, yet.

Don't buy WD 1.5 TB Green (WD15EADS) - they are tulip, failing like there is no tomorrow just now, 2 TB (WD20EADS) also seems affected

[themistry]

Hitachi are the best - 1-2 TB versions. We buy lots of disks, including WDs, Seagates: right now we shift to Hitachies as they seem best...

I stopped buying IBM (Hitachi) driver after the click of dead issues.. must be 6-8 years ago now!

Are they decent reliable drives now? Lost about 7 IBM drives to that problem, so never bought one again!

TM

[jmo21]

Of course, you made sure that the hard drives were from completely different batches before relying on RAID, didn't you?

no

[TheFaQQer]

Finally went for a QNAP TS-210 with 2 x 1.5TB

Bittorrent downloads work great, and I've got it set up with Raid-1 for redundancy.

Currently having issues with the Twonky server version streaming to my xbox though.

Of course, you made sure that the hard drives were from completely different batches before relying on RAID, didn't you?

[TheFaQQer]

Whilst strictly speaking not a NAS boax, I use my Popcorn Hour for network storage occasionally.

Don't know about streaming - it does all sorts of fancy things, and connects to the TV via HDMI cable. I prefer to download torrents on the computer and then just copy them over, to be honest.

[AtW]

Getting way too many failures now from WD 1.5 TB Green series, also 2 TB is dodgy - they are only 1 year old

[jmo21]

Finally went for a QNAP TS-210 with 2 x 1.5TB

Bittorrent downloads work great, and I've got it set up with Raid-1 for redundancy.

Currently having issues with the Twonky server version streaming to my xbox though.

[AtW]

Hitachi are the best - 1-2 TB versions. We buy lots of disks, including WDs, Seagates: right now we shift to Hitachies as they seem best...

[aWrongun]

yes Western Digitals arent too bad..my new western digital live hd tv media player is awesome from my QNap NAS..well worth checking out if you ant to stream content to your hd tv

[Ardesco]

You'll be even more irritated when the drives give up, which being Western Digital, they will .... very soon

I must say that Western Digital have been the most reliable drive provider i've had. Seagate always used to go wrong and Fujitsu whilst fast were generally a bit iffy.

[gadgetman]

Or buy a NAS!

Well okay then. you can do what I do. Replace the fans and the PS with quiet stuff and put some big drives into it. Which is what I do.

[lilelvis2000]

People always say that, but chances are an old PC will be a) bulky, b) noisy, c) use much more power than a NAS, and d) have a small hard disk by today's standards.

Well okay then. you can do what I do. Replace the fans and the PS with quiet stuff and put some big drives into it. Which is what I do.

[vandiss]

Got a QNAP TS-509 myself, couldn't survive without it now.

Use it for the following:

• Torrent client (rtorrent++)
• Forums (phpBB)
• Code repository (Subversion)
• Java app server (Tomcat)
• Database server (mySQL)
• Mail server (Dove)
• UPnP server (Twonky)

The firmware received a major upgrade earlier this year and the web front-end is excellent. The file manager is a thing of beauty.

[Sysman]

You'll be even more irritated when the drives give up, which being Western Digital, they will .... very soon

Aye, I've come across similar comments before, so I'm not pinning too many hopes on it