Which NAS drive?

[flamel]

I've got a ReadyNAS Duo and NV+ v2 with a mere 12 Tb (cost £150 before drives) - as I know jack-tulip about networking, how can I tell who's accessing it (apart from myself of course) - i.e. is it secure?

[malvolio]

Buffalo four disk enclosure with 4x4tb drives in RAID 1 will work...

But I know several people with Synology NAS. And don't ignor backups

[TheCoconutDog]

Buffalo four disk enclosure with 4x4tb drives in RAID 1 will work...

But I know several people with Synology NAS. And don't ignor backups

If you had 4 disks why wouldn't you use RAID 5 rather than RAID1?

[Halo Jones]

Buffalo four disk enclosure with 4x4tb drives in RAID 1 will work

I think that’s what we have at home, but I know BGG is contemplating a replacement, (TBH I don’t know why; he just says we need to change it so change it we shall)

[TheCoconutDog]

I need 8Gb mirrored NAS. Anyone got any personal positive experiences of such a beast?

What do you want to use the NAS for?

[TheFaQQer]

What do you want to use the NAS for?

Videos

[TheCoconutDog]

Videos

If this is the case and you want to run something like (the rather excellent) Plex media server on the NAS to do video transcoding then you need to make sure the NAS processor has sufficient grunt to cope. See https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/art...nd-Limitations

If you're not going to do transcoding on the NAS then this is less of an issue.

Synology have a couple of options that will run plex and and I believe their own Diskstation manager (DSM) software comes with a decent video server and client software.

[unixman]

Before purchase I recommend verifying the advertised speed with other owners.

Long ago I bought a Buffalo NAS that boasted "gigabit interface!". However the CPU is so weedy it maxes out at 15 megabytes/sec, rather than 70 or 80 that the gigabit could otherwise manage. Reliable though.

[malvolio]

If you had 4 disks why wouldn't you use RAID 5 rather than RAID1?

20-odd years datacentre experience?

But mainly performance (double the read speed for example ), data integrity and better fault tolerance. A failed drive on RAID 5 reduces your capability, on RAID 1 it doesn't. And you can hot swap RAID 1.

Use RAID5 on RAID1 virtual sets if you want, but that's getting expensive.

[VectraMan]

Long ago I bought a Buffalo NAS that boasted "gigabit interface!". However the CPU is so weedy it maxes out at 15 megabytes/sec, rather than 70 or 80 that the gigabit could otherwise manage. Reliable though.

The Buffalo NAS I bought overheated twice in the first 24 hours and then wiped its own firmware. I managed to get it going with some different firmware off the net, and used it for a while but it always seemed slow. In the end I broke it open to get the drive out and put in the PC. And when I say "broke it open" I mean I had to use a hammer and chisel.