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    Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives

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

    Iomega's StorCenter ix2-200 NAS Has Bluetooth, Time Machine, Chubby Exterior

    Netgear Stora NAS Shares Your Files...on the Web!

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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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    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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    Image of bsh0544 bsh0544
    10/24/09

    @Trevor Mitchell: There's two drives. Raid 5 wouldn't even work. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of Leonce Leonce
    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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    Image of Douglas J. Boehme Douglas J. Boehme
    09/21/09

    In reply to Netgear Stora NAS Shares Your Files...on the Web!
    Are there any NAS devices like this that aren't gimped and will allow additional drives? I personally don't care if it has to be FTP only...it seems every time I read a review about an NAS device, it has issues. Just looking for a simple NAS device with RAID options (I'd settle for mirror only).
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    Bandit promoted this comment Douglas J. Boehme was starred Douglas J. Boehme was unstarred
    Image of drakino drakino
    09/21/09

    @Douglas J. Boehme: Netgear also sells quite a few other good NAS devices under the ReadyNAS brand. They bought the company a little while back, and thankfully haven't ruined them.

    [readynas.com] is the main site for the NASes and community around them. I bought an NV+, and while a little pricy, it's nice to have a small box tucked away with a UPS providing so many useful functions on the network. No more hassle of some PC case and loud fans acting as a NAS for me.
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    09/21/09

    @drakino: Amen. I like my ReadyNAS Pro. Haven't tried to stream HD, but will stream multiple Apple Lossless feeds to squeezeboxen all over my house.
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    09/16/09

    In reply to Seagate's FreeAgent DockStar Network Adapter Brings Access To Your Files Courtesy of Pogoplug
    I'm sorry... Paid service? WTF??
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    Image of whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII
    09/16/09

    In reply to Seagate's FreeAgent DockStar Network Adapter Brings Access To Your Files Courtesy of Pogoplug
    As long as Seagate agrees to keep the pogoplug service up and running, this is pretty sweet.

    I should probably read the link, but I just hope that there are no restrictions on what other brands of USB drives can be plugged into the other ports. If so, I may be sold. Subsidize this price by including the dock with some bigger drives, and they really have a winner. I could sell the shit out of this at work (OfficeMax).
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    09/16/09

    @whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII: licensing the tech is different than buying the company, and it's not enough security for me. I've been looking into NAS solutions, and I think I'd rather spend the extra money for a Microsoft Home Server.
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    Image of whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII
    09/16/09

    @weatherman: Yeah, I know they didn't buy them. But having a large player invested in Pogoplug helps lend to its credibility and longevity.

    And yes, I would love a WHS too. Once I'm not broke anymore, I'm rebuilding my desktop, and using most of the old equipment to make either a Hackintosh, WHS, or probably both. Dual-booting FTW!

    I need to back up my laptop, desktop, parents computer, and have access to my file remotely. That basically means a good dedicated NAS, and one running WHS would be fantastic.
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    09/16/09

    @whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII: yeah, I think that's my plan too. I have an older small format desktop just begging to be a project..
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    09/10/09

    In reply to LG's N2R1 Wi-Fi NAS Shares 1TB of Media for $299
    What's under the hood? Is it yet another embedded ARM/PPC/MIPS or Atom?
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    09/10/09

    In reply to LG's N2R1 Wi-Fi NAS Shares 1TB of Media for $299
    If it had 802.11n, I'd be sold. Damn.
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