Geeks: Dust of your Chinos and recomend me a NAS

[Viney]

As i have just got a company laptop and my home PC being on its last legs (MB is fubar'd) im looking at getting some NAS. So what do you guys and girls recommend?

I require something around 2tb, something that's easy to set up and run really. I looked at the likes of the net gear chassis, then running it with a couple of 2Tb drives running in raid or something.

So what ya got?

[Sudoxe]

I've got a netgear readynas the NV+ with 4 disks in raid5.

However, it sounds like a ReadyNAS duo with a couple of 2TB disks will do you well.

Dan

[Bluepete]

So what ya got?


I got a popped collar on my Lacoste Polo shirt, loafers and razor sharp chinos.

But I've got no idea what you're talking about!

HTH!!!

Pete ;)

[Dave20046]

I got a popped collar on my Lacoste Polo shirt, loafers and razor sharp chinos.

But I've got no idea what you're talking about!

HTH!!!

Pete ;)

These kids and their hiphop :rolleyes:




http://www.dabs.com/products/d-link-2-bay-nas-network-storage-enclosure-49GV.html
That enclosure's pretty cheap for what it is - no mention of Raid though so could be a load of balls
could couple it with a pair of these http://www.ebuyer.com/product/177466

Other than than Iomega tend to be pretty well priced...or go with sudoxe's suggestion!

If you can sell/find another use for a 500gb harddrive this ain't too bad a price

[Sir Trev]

Why didn't you just say Network Attached Storage? It would really help most of us understand what on earth you're talking about (it's not just you BPete - I had to look it up).


Have you considered a Dell?










Come on, you knew I'd say that, right??

[hindle8907]

Why didn't you just say Network Attached Storage? It would really help most of us understand what on earth you're talking about (it's not just you BPete - I had to look it up).



Because he was asking geeks, and doesn't want the opinion of someone that doesn't know what NAS is :smt048

[Sudoxe]

Here you go V-Man, ebuyer have an offer with the chassis, 2TB disk and a extra free 2TB disk. (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/186685) :cool:

[Dave20046]

oops forgot to add the link to the above post

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/netgear-readynas-duo-enclosure-with-foc-500gb-hdd-119-99-misco_uk-ebay/891212

[Ceri JC]

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081215/Nas.jpg
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones: The original and still the best.

[Viney]

Well geek me up baby, i have just ordered me up a NAS device. A D-link DNS-320 and a couple of 2TB WD20EARS 64MB cache drives. Yeah baby, go me.

*Does a dance*

I was going to go for netgear one but after reading a few reviews fo the netgear and the D-Link, the D-link just edged it, plus its the same make as my router, and its got blue lights...ok the last bit is being silly

[hindle8907]

how much you end up paying for the lot then mate ? if you dont mind me asking.

[Viney]

£185 all in which wasnt too bad.

£63 for the Nas and £61 each for the drives. Gives me a 2tb raid 1 system or a 4tb system if i wanted.

Ordered it from Dabs

[DJFridge]

I run a QNAP TS219 with 2 2TB drives mirrored. 2TB is a lot of storage unless you start putting all your films on there.

Repeat after me, "My data is important to me. I will always RAID or mirror my data."

[hindle8907]

I need something that will run SABnzb without issue.
I was leaning towards the Netgear duo with a pair of 2x2TB's.
But still not taken the plunge as i am waiting for my claim money first :P

[startrek.steve]

Get an old pc, some big hd's and install freenas.. its the dogs danglies, been using it for years...
http://www.freenas.org/
It'll work happily on a 1GHZ Celeron,

[hindle8907]

Yeah I use freenas at work, I thought about making a box but I want something that's going to be low power and compact and quite.
I know you can get SFF's and USFF's but by the time I have purchased a U/SFF case / Board / ect ect Its going to be more cost effective to just buy a NAS Box.

If you dont mind having a tower kicking about in the home somewhere then freenas is a great option.

[timwilky]

I have seriously thought about building something. However I need a hybrid always on system.

SSD for OS, apps etc.
4*2tb raid 5 configured plus hot spare
then 2tb raid 0 for my served services (Apache, tomcat, Oracle, MySql, mail (postfix/ POP3 etc)

I want the nas functionality to provide NFS, SMB, iSCSI.

The server functionality is lightly loaded, that is why I would like to offload it onto a lower power consumption system and be able to turn off my power hungry development system when not in use.

What to do. I reckon I could buy an e350 based board, raid card etc. but what linux?

[startrek.steve]

Well Id say as above - Freenas, but Ubuntu server ticks all the boxes as well.

[startrek.steve]

I need something that will run SABnzb without issue.
I was leaning towards the Netgear duo with a pair of 2x2TB's.
But still not taken the plunge as i am waiting for my claim money first :P

I use HellaNZB along with Lottanzb and then Ktorrent with TED.
Hellanzb is command line so no power issues there.

[rodders]

Guys I consider myself and ubergeek but I doth my cap to thee on NAS setups. All I can add is make sure all switches, ports, routers are gigabit no point moving those files over using 100mb would take a while thats before you consider streaming full 1080p HD from the box.

[hindle8907]

All I can add is make sure all switches, ports, routers are gigabit

good points for anyone who's new to networking / nas ect.

[timwilky]

I would also say if you are using iSCSI on your NAS use an iSCSI HBA rather than a iSCSI driver if you can, and if using shared switches with your network, stick it on a separate vlan. otherwise use a second network and isolate the iSCSI from your data network.

[Bluepete]

Giz a clue fellas, what the hell are you talking about?

Pete ;)

[timwilky]

Pete is simple

NAS = Network Attached storage.

Think about it as a box that delivers disc storage to multiple computers simply by a network connection.

As it is delivered to the network, it has to handle different types of network storage and probably for the same virtual drive so means linux protocols such as NFS, or windows such as SMB etc. all the resources needed to control access, authorise users etc are managed on the NAS device. Generally a NAS implements some sort of RAID technology such as mirroring or striping.

The technology I stated above iSCSI is interesting as the storage is no longer considered to be network attached but pseudo directly attached as instead of the commands to the drive being sent across fibre as in the case of fibre channel they are sent on the network, whilst this delivers performance beyond traditional networked storage it can be network heavy and therefore best to separate it from your normal network traffic.

NAS devices are typically always on. therefore other network/storage functions get added to "Home" models such as to be able to download from usenet type sites or to stream video etc.

Complacent users think once they have NAS their backup problems are going to be eliminated as the RAID should look after data loss. They forget about evolving files that they may wish to recover older versions or those files that are deleted and suddenly required etc.