jammerjam writes "My WD 120GB drive got it's MBR scrambled so it no longer mounts in my W*ndoze box (I can recover the data so I know that's intact). But now that's made me realize I need to implement my data backup plan. Scouring the Internet I can't find a reliable resource for home NAS solutions. For every positive review I can find a negative that refutes it. My first choice from what I found starts at $1200...I've got $500.
Anyone have a suggestion? I'm not looking for enterprise-level storage here — but I do want reliability.
Requirements — 2 500 GB SATA drives, prefer RAID 1 config
— quick read time (most of the access will be write once read many) Wired to the network 10/100/1000 Scheduled automatic backups Minimum 1 USB port Monitoring ability
Optional but preferred — Streaming music/videos/pics to my LAN Ability to access over the 'Net
What do you use, would you suggest it — why or why not?"
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I personally purchased the QNAP TS-209 Pro and put a pair of WD 500GB as a RAID1 setup last month after looking at the various offerings out there. It had some of the best performance for the cost at the time. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30181/75/ [smallnetbuilder.com]
Running it for the past month has been worry free for me. It is quiet, cool, and no problems insofar. It has more features than I will personally use (since I bought it simply for a NAS device) but it can do Media streaming (twonkyworks), rsyn
QNAP TS-209 (Score:1)
Home NAS (Score:1)