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    Asus TS Mini NAS Windows Home Server Backups Up to 10 PCs

    Addonics' Mini NAS Could Hide A Teeny Weeny Torrent Server

    Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives

    Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/18/09

    In reply to Asus TS Mini NAS Windows Home Server Backups Up to 10 PCs
    Does it support DLNA?
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    Image of theorieofself theorieofself
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    i'm running (6) 7200rpm drives in my FreeNAS box. i guess i could have gone with 5400rpm, but i already had all the hardware so i didn't really buy new components when i put the unit together.

    @waclark57 i think you missed the point. the post clearly says, "The main bottleneck in any NAS is the RAID engine. Since many NAS units don't include a dedicated controller, oftentimes the speed of the drive just doesn't matter. If you're using a blazing-fast hardware RAID card in your own custom built setup, then drive speed might make a difference. But for most consumer units, the controller is the bottleneck."

    with that in mind, drive speed obviously isn't an issue in consumer based NAS systems. sure if you have maddd money to spend on high end hardware, and you have a beefy raid controller, 10k or 15k drives will make a difference. #diy
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    Image of Bluechip Bluechip
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    I'm using Western Digital Green drives in my unRAID setup. [www.lime-technology.com]

    Currently at 2TB + parity and expandable up to 6 drives before I have to upgrade the software license to the next tier (16 drives). #diy
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    UnderLoK promoted this comment Digo approved this comment Bluechip was starred Bluechip was unstarred
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    11/09/09

    @Bluechip: I use greens as well, different setup however. #diy
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    Image of travisco_nabisco travisco_nabisco
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    I read this article yesterday and there are a few points that need to be noted. First they used older 7200 RPM drives and current generation 5400 RPM drives. It would have been more meaningful if both sets of drives were current generation.

    The other note is that if you are setting up RAID 1 the 7200 RPM drives may actually be faster. This is because in the article they rationalize that it is the lack of a hardware RAID controller that causes the bottle neck because the CPU is doing all the XOR calculations. However in RAID 1 no XOR's are calculated because the drives contents are identical.

    just my 2 cents #diy
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    That's why you get one of these:
    [www.promise.com]

    Put half in RAID 0 and half as backup....(I forget which RAID number that makes it) and hook it up via Fibre channel to your Xserve that you're logged into via open directory (and that your home folder is hosted on) via gigabit ethernet.

    :D #diy
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    11/07/09

    @TheCrudMan: RAID 0+1 #diy
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    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    11/07/09

    In reply to Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives
    What would LHer's recommend in terms of the best reliability 1TB drives for a NAS? Is that size in the sweet spot at this point? Am I going to significantly decrease reliability using 2TB drives? #diy
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    Image of David Frederick Becker David Frederick Becker
    11/07/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: The Western Digital Caviar Black drives are by far the most reliable. [www.newegg.com]
    In fact, I just ordered two of these yesterday!
    Judging from current trends, virtually all of the 2TB drives currently out have pretty bad reliability track records. I had considered them, too, but I don't want to waste money on them.
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    AmphetamineCrown promoted this comment Edited by David Frederick Becker at 11/07/09 1:15 PM David Frederick Becker was starred David Frederick Becker was unstarred
    Image of brisketboy brisketboy
    11/07/09

    @AmphetamineCrown: If you're primary goal is the reliability of an individual drive and you're willing to pay the premium an "enterprise" drive like the Barracuda ES.2 or something from the newer Constellation line is going to give you the best reliability, especially if you plan on running 24/7.

    If cost is more of a factor, you might consider 1.5TB drives. Seagate (Barracuda LP), WD (Caviar Green), and Samsung (Eco Green F2) all have low-spindle-speed 1.5TB drives. Put them in a RAID 5 or RAID 6 configuration for reliability, utilize the 3-year warranty if needed, and you'll be fine.

    I personally just put together a NAS with 6 1.5 TB Barracuda LPs in a RAID 6 running the Openfiler NAS software and its been running like a champ. 70MB/s over gigabit ethernet without jumbo frames enabled. #diy
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    11/07/09

    @brisketboy: @David Frederick Becker: I've actually been using the Barracuda ES.2s in my 6 drive ReadyNAS. It is about a year old, and I replaced one a couple months ago when the monitoring software started detecting errors. Now I'm starting to see errors on two other drives. As easy as they are to replace, I'm not really liking the concept of running through 3 drives a year.

    Maybe I'll try the Caviar black drives and see how they do. Seems like I'm going to develop quite the history with replacing drives. #diy
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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    10/25/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Puh-lease this is only marginally better than FreeNAS. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of takedanger.design takedanger.design
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Show me a NAS with built in NZB downloading/unpacking, and I'll bite. #iomegaix2200review
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    soggy_cheerio promoted this comment takedanger.design was starred takedanger.design was unstarred
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    10/25/09

    @takedanger.design: ReadyNAS via plugin? #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of fate47 - Meh. fate47 - Meh.
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Is the Ethernet port gigabit? Does it support wireless? #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Second good review on this unit I've seen... Is there any chance you can test out transfer speeds on it? I was actually pretty interested in this when I saw it on Ars awhile back, but didn't know anyone else with the unit.

    I'm getting sick of having a monster full tower in the basement churning away sucking up all my hard earned cash in electricity. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of CC Sullivan CC Sullivan
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    At this size and price, this could be the next SLUG (Linksys NSLU2 (Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives))

    Lets get them to release the Source Code. Its probably Linux based anyway. #iomegaix2200review
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    Jason Chen promoted this comment CC Sullivan was starred CC Sullivan was unstarred
    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    It can take *hours* for the app to locate the NAS on your network at set up?

    That seems... impossibly slow. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of Trevor Mitchell Trevor Mitchell
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Raid 1? why waste 1/2 the disk space. should have been raid 5. #iomegaix2200review
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    10/24/09

    @Trevor Mitchell: There's two drives. Raid 5 wouldn't even work. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of Chris Hansen Chris Hansen
    10/24/09

    @Trevor Mitchell: From what I understand, RAID 5 on two drives isn't possible. You can do it with 3, but it's reccomended to do RAID 5 with 4 drives or more. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of fluidexistence fluidexistence
    10/24/09

    @Leonce: That's more of a recommendation based on redundant failure capability, I'd say. Then again, if you're that concerned with having robust parity, you could just as easily do RAID 5 on 3 with backup to tape. #iomegaix2200review
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    10/24/09

    @fluidexistence: You are, as always, balancing efficiency against catastrophic failure. Your RAID 5 efficiency is (N-1)/N, where N is the number of drives, and increases as N grows large. However, your risk of catastrophic failure is the possibility of two drives going bad at the same time, which also increases as you put more drives in the array. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of drsmith drsmith
    10/08/09

    In reply to Iomega's StorCenter ix2-200 NAS Has Bluetooth, Time Machine, Chubby Exterior
    Where is the link to the friggin product?
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/08/09

    @drsmith: Here.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/21/09

    In reply to Netgear Stora NAS Shares Your Files...on the Web!
    I kind of want a NAS but I think I'll get a copy of Win Home Server and install it on one of my old boxes. It's hard to beat the feature set of WHS.
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