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I’m looking to get a NAS set up for my home network. Does anyone have any suggestions about good solutions out there. Looking for the best value for money of course but open to any realistic suggestions. A nice to have would be to also allow printer sharing so I can share storage and my printer without the need for my main desktop to be powered on.
Cheapest I have seen is approx £80 for a 500GB Freecom unit off Ebuyer but would happily spend more for a better performing or stable unit.
Uses would be mostly for backing up, sharing movies and occasional remote file access.
A possible alternative I would also consider is a new wireless router with storage and printer sharing built in – my current Linksys router has neither.the best nas drive is a synology ds108j it has every feature under the sun and can be had for 98 pounds or there abouts, you need to add a drive of your choice, but it does a lot more than the freecom
Ive listed the specs below but key points
Print Server built in
Internet server
Media server
Itunes server
upnp server
upgradable with modules i believe
I think it also has a bittorrent server so you dont need your pc on but double check that
Auto backupSpecification Hardware CPU Clock Rate: 200 MHz
RAM Size: 32MB
Internal HDD: 3.5″ SATA(II) X1
External HDD Interface: USB 2.0 port X3
Size: 160mm X 218mm X 63mm
Weight: 0.81kg
LAN: Gigabit X1
Fan: X1(50mmX50mm)
Power Recovery
AC Input Power Voltage: 100V to 240V
Power Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz, Single Phase
Max Capacity (Internal HDD): 1 TB (See All Supported HDD)
Max Supported IP Camera: 1 (See All Supported IP Cameras)
Operating Temperature: 5°C to 35°C (40°F to 95°F)
Storage Temperature: -10°C to 70°C (15°F to 155°F)
Relative Humidity: 5% to 95%RH
Maximum Operating Altitude: 10,000 feet
Power Consumption(1) 26.9W(Access);
10W(Hibernation)
Certification FCC Class B, CE Class B, BSMI Class B, VCCI Class B
Networking Protocols CIFS
AFP (3.1)
FTP
Security “FTP over SSL (explicit)” or “FTP over TLS (explicit)”
Encrypted Network Backup
HTTPS Connection
FTP Auto-Block
File System EXT3
FAT (External Disk Only)
NTFS (External Disk Read Only)
Utilities Synology Assistant
Synology Data Replicator 3
Synology Download Redirector
Add printer wizardApplications Surveillance Station
Photo Station
File Station
Audio Station
Web Station
PHP/MySQL
Download Station
iTunes Server
UPnP Multimedia Service Support Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox360 (See All Supported DMA)
Audio Format: AAC, M4A, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, WMA VBR, WMA PRO, WMA Lossless
Video Format: ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, VOB, WMV, XviD
Image Format: BMP, JPG (jpe, jpeg), GIF, ICO, PNG, PSD, TIF (tiff), UFO
Playlist Format: WPL, M3U
iTunes Server Support Audio Format: MP3, M4A, M4P
Playlist Format: M3U, WPL
Audio Station Support Audio Format: AAC, M4A, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, WMA VBR
Playlist Format: M3U, WPL
Internet Radio: SHOUTcast, Radioio
Photo Station 3 Support Video Format: ASF, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG4, WMV, XviD, DivX, DAT(2), MP4(2), MPEG2(2), RM(2), RMVB(2), VOB(2)
Image Format: BMP, JPG (jpe, jpeg), GIF
Management AJAX-based Management UI
Download Station Bandwidth control
Download Station Port Range Setup
Editable HTTP Error Page
Email Alert Message
Email Notification for New User
External HDD Hibernation (USB)
Scheduled Power On/Off
Firmware Upgrade
FTP passive port range
Hide-able Shared Folder
Internal HDD Hibernation
Port range for BitTorrent
Removable Default Shared Folder
Ez-Internet
PPPoE
UPS Management (Over USB 2.0)
User Quota
Web-based Download Station
Backup Solutions Network Backup
Local Backup
Desktop Backup (using Synology Data Replicator 3)
USB Copy
3rd-Party Backup Support Acronis True Image
Symantec Backup Exec
EMC Retrospect
LaCie SilverKeeper (Details)
Supported Clients Windows 2000 onward
Mac OS X 10.3 onward
Printer Support(3) Max Printer #: 1
Supported Protocols: LPR, CIFS, AppleTalk
Languages English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese.
why not just create a network share partition on your desktop?
means leaving the mahcine on all the time, but will save you a truckload on having a seperate machine for the sake of only 500gb.
for £80 you can get a 1TB sammy spinpoint F1 delivered to your door.
http://www.ebuyer.comI have a QNAP TS-109 (with 1TB drive) and can definitely recommend it.
It really impacts how you use all your various network-capable gadgets. All my photos and video files are always available for playback on PS3 or Xbox, mp3 files for the Squeezebox (and it runs the SlimServer to control the box), you can kick off torrent and usenet downloads on the box itself, use it as a small webserver, offer FTP to friends etc.
All that and it’s quiet enough to run in the living room because it has no fans. Plus it only draws around 15W of power.
It’s the 24×7 nature of the box that makes it so good. You can always fire up a regular PC and do network sharing but that is hassle. Having something that is always running (but doesn’t guzzle power pushing up your electricity bill) really adds value. I’d say that it is as much of an advance in usability for me as WiFi was.
Thanks TheRing I’ll check that NAS out.
@HEF I’m wanting a separate NAS so I don’t need to leave a PC running.My boss was after a nas drive and after showing hin this one and the reviews he has gone ahead and brought it, although was informed by him after posting this that its not certified for samsung drives apparently the sleep mode causes issues, but is confirmed with maxtor, seagate, and western digital
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I have a QNAP TS-109 (with 1TB drive) and can definitely recommend it.It really impacts how you use all your various network-capable gadgets. All my photos and video files are always available for playback on PS3 or Xbox, mp3 files for the Squeezebox (and it runs the SlimServer to control the box), you can kick off torrent and usenet downloads on the box itself, use it as a small webserver, offer FTP to friends etc.
All that and it’s quiet enough to run in the living room because it has no fans. Plus it only draws around 15W of power.
It’s the 24×7 nature of the box that makes it so good. You can always fire up a regular PC and do network sharing but that is hassle. Having something that is always running (but doesn’t guzzle power pushing up your electricity bill) really adds value. I’d say that it is as much of an advance in usability for me as WiFi was.
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Thanks for the info – heard some good things about Qnap. Does this allow printer sharing?
Actually reading up on the Synology gives good things as it appears it offers the ability to set up web downloads too – I download from Rapidshare so if I can do this easily I could be sold.
I also found the following which offers similar features for the same money but includes the drive:Buffalo LS-CH500L
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