Looking for some help find a NAS drive.

First of, I do apologize if this has been on the forum before, but I searched and could not find any suggestions with my questions.

Anyways, I am currently looking for a NAS, but I am not very knowledgeable about it. Mostly its to keep data and to stream movies and music to some pc's and to a Xbox 360.

I don't have the funds to build my own, just looking for something simple.

I was thinking about this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822165075

as a good drive, found some good reviews about it, but just wanted to know if there where any other drives that where a decent price and would work. Looking for something around $300, has a 1TB, and hoping for it to have a 1 or 2 USB ports to add externals on it later. Anyways any tips to look for or any suggestions on what to get would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi,

You may want to consider getting a NAS enclosure, in which you can put whatever sized HDDs you'd like, thereby giving more flexibility than devices of fixed capacity.

I personally like D-Link, but YMMV.

DNS-313 or -323 accepts 2 SATA drives of any size; you could put in 2 1TB drives, mirrored, in either of these devices.

The DNS-343 accepts 4 SATA drives, and can give you RAID-5.

Heya,

Check this out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822344001

Throw two of these in there:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148134

Boom, 1.5 tb storage, USB, eSATA, etc. And it doesn't look like a blocky turd. It looks pretty cool (the box).

And by the way, if you're worried about having to install it yourself, it's as easy as building a wall in legos. It's plug it in and go.

Cheers,