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NAS storage question

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October 2, 2008 10:25:37 PM

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I'm new to networking. I have a home network that I want to attach a NAS to. I'm looking at the two bay units. They all come with raid0 or raid1 but what I want at least at this time is to use two 500gb HDD in a unit as seperate network drives. Not in raid or as a JBOD but two independant drives.

Do any of you have a particular NAS unit that will do this? As in synology, netgear, bufflo, ect...

Any help would be greatly apprieciated. And please take it easy on me, I know this is a nub question...

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October 3, 2008 7:15:12 PM

Hey subhuman,

The whole point of NAS is to provide you centralized share point, protect you from failure of the drive without big drop of performance.

If you want to keep two separate 500 Gigs for different storage, then just attach them to your mini-server or computer that is online the most time.

Raid0 - will give you better performance with 1 TB space available (but it will not be redundant)

Raid1 - will give you slower performance with 500 GB space available (and in case of failure of 1 of the drives you can replace it with the new one without loosing your data)
October 3, 2008 8:16:26 PM

Linksys offers a device called the NAS200. Check it out here: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2...

Be warned though, most consumer grade NAS boxes are plagued with extremely slow network transfer speeds. 3MB to 5MB a second is average. Thus if you plan on using that 1TB of total storage space it will take you a week and a half to copy all the data.

They're good for the average home user who has a few documents and maybe some music to back up. If you're looking for somethign to store large movie files and such and then be able to stream them across the network, this solution doesn't work well.

4everIT has the better idea; skip the NAS box all together and install the drives in a dedicated file server.
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