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Toshiba Canvio Home NAS a Good Way to Build Local Cloud : Read more
Toshiba Canvio Home NAS a Good Way to Build Local Cloud : Read more
"Impatient teens" usually set this stuff up. It's adults who can't figure shit out.Anyhow, this solution is pure garbage right here. No USB 3.0? Puh-leeeease, it's 2014. I built my own NAS running Windows 7 - not only it's a fully capable NAS but also allows me to do a lot of other things. In fact it's a perfectly fine office PC, which I used while my main one was broken - 32 GB SSD (SanDisk ReadyCache) as an OS drive, 1.5 TB WD Green (ripped out of its external enclosure) for storage, and Asus E45M1-I Deluxe providing USB 3.0 and even extra Wi-Fi hotspot for my room specifically for accelerated media streaming. Yes, it cost me more than $150, but I can add up to, I think, 3 more drives (CM Elite 120 case), it can be used as a real PC and I think it's worth the extra cost. One could also use Linux to cut the cost down.But if you really want just a dumb NAS, at least do yourself a favor and get one with USB 3.0. Like the WD mentioned in the article. Plus with WD NAS you know you've got WD drives, which are hands down the best hard drives left on the market.The solution should be accessible from anywhere through easy-to-use software so that even impatient teens can deposit and go as they please.
SATA on these SOC's are hardware accelerated, so the NAS is able to give 35-40MB/s writes, and 50-60MB/s reads, but once you throw in USB, then there is no hardware acceleration, and with the slow CPU, it wont even make it to 20MB/s so it will just add cost with no benefit by adding a USB 3 controller.(If you want high performance external expansion with out having to throw in a high end SOC, you need to use SATA, or esata (this is why the next linksys router will use it, it will use a NAS style SOC which has native support, and thuis will not have as much of a CPU bottleneck, (this is also why routers such as the WNDR4700 can get 40MB/s writes, and nearly 90MB/s reads on a crappy single core 1GHz low power CPUConsider the USB port being there as a random extra simply because the SOC had a build in USB 2 controller, so all they needed to do was run the traces and solder in a port.The SOC has physical pins for 2 SATA ports, 1 USB 2.0 port, 1 SD card port, 1PCI-e x1 slot, and an audio output."Impatient teens" usually set this stuff up. It's adults who can't figure shit out.Anyhow, this solution is pure garbage right here. No USB 3.0? Puh-leeeease, it's 2014. I built my own NAS running Windows 7 - not only it's a fully capable NAS but also allows me to do a lot of other things. In fact it's a perfectly fine office PC, which I used while my main one was broken - 32 GB SSD (SanDisk ReadyCache) as an OS drive, 1.5 TB WD Green (ripped out of its external enclosure) for storage, and Asus E45M1-I Deluxe providing USB 3.0 and even extra Wi-Fi hotspot for my room specifically for accelerated media streaming. Yes, it cost me more than $150, but I can add up to, I think, 3 more drives (CM Elite 120 case), it can be used as a real PC and I think it's worth the extra cost. One could also use Linux to cut the cost down.But if you really want just a dumb NAS, at least do yourself a favor and get one with USB 3.0. Like the WD mentioned in the article. Plus with WD NAS you know you've got WD drives, which are hands down the best hard drives left on the market.The solution should be accessible from anywhere through easy-to-use software so that even impatient teens can deposit and go as they please.
Wow, the software is that bad? Hmm..... anyone have a link to someone who has reviewed just the software and not the NAS, pointing out the failures?I currently use one, it works really well, just don't use the software that it comes with, it is the reason why the reviews are horrible. the software sucks, it does not do anything that windows cannot already do. The windows backup is lightyears better than the canvio backup software, the device has all of the standard sharing features using FTP, samba, and a few other methods for accessing the shares locally and remotely.If you want to avoid a lot of pain, when you get the device, delete the software that it comes with, then first step, head to \\the NAS IP address (for example, \\192.168.1.50 ) on your file explorer.Then map share as a network drive. You are now done setting the device up, it is ready to use as a basic NAS.You can then set up encrypted FTP for remote access.It also has DLNA and a bunch of other features, basically 100% no need to use the canvio software.