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serpentine009

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I am looking to get some sort of home NAS solution....either as a main file share or simply as a backup depot. Can anyone offer suggestions on setups? Hardware? etc...

I would like to use the NAS as the storage location for mostly Photos, Music, and Videos. I have read conflicting reviews about using a NAS drive as a file share vs. having it used as a backup only.

Just fishing at this point. Thanks.

Oh, I would also like to have my phone and my wife's backed up to this NAS too. Both SD card and Internal. Would love to have nightly NANDROIDs...is that even possible without doing it manually?
 
serpentine009 said:
I am looking to get some sort of home NAS solution....either as a main file share or simply as a backup depot. Can anyone offer suggestions on setups? Hardware? etc...

I would like to use the NAS as the storage location for mostly Photos, Music, and Videos. I have read conflicting reviews about using a NAS drive as a file share vs. having it used as a backup only.

Just fishing at this point. Thanks.

Oh, I would also like to have my phone and my wife's backed up to this NAS too. Both SD card and Internal. Would love to have nightly NANDROIDs...is that even possible without doing it manually?
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I can say that the people arguing the merits of backup vs file share are idiots. It is like arguing 4.3 inch screen vs 3.7 inch. The real answer is which feels better in your hand. So...what do you need? If you need to share files, then you set it up to do that. If you only want a backup, then do that.

As for nandroids, I do not think it is possible. AFAIK the only way to do a nandroid from android (not recovery) is ROM manager, and that requires confimartion with a screen touch. Anyway, after the nandroid CWM requires you enter the keys to select reboot...there is no automation in CWM.

Hope that helps
Nkk
 
Thanks, nkk. That's what I figured about the backup/file share debate. I am simply looking for something that I can map as a network drive and connect it to my router. I would prefer not to install any bloatware that comes with it.
 
Connecting an external disk drive to your wireless router will require that the clients that connect to it support CIFS. If you want to connect to the external storage with your Android phone, you'll simply need to install a CIFS client onto the phone. I believe there are several CIFS apps currently available in the Android Market.
 
Using a NAS for backup and for remote fileshares is fine :lol: I mean, if a live file gets corrupted, does it matter if the backup is on the same device? Well, no. If the device dies, well, yes, you are up a creek without a paddle. But most NAS devices have a RAID array.
 
serpentine009 said:
I am looking to get some sort of home NAS solution....either as a main file share or simply as a backup depot. Can anyone offer suggestions on setups? Hardware? etc...

I would like to use the NAS as the storage location for mostly Photos, Music, and Videos. I have read conflicting reviews about using a NAS drive as a file share vs. having it used as a backup only.

Just fishing at this point. Thanks.
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We use a Windows Home Server (HP MediaSmart EX490 with 6TB fitted and 1 bay free) as our main backup for both laptops (OSX Macbook and Win7 laptop) via both system images and data only. It's also our primary media server for music, photos, videos and DVDs, as well as a fileshare. This was a replacement after my headless Linux Server (a Bubba One) was fried during a series of power outages.
The contents of the WHS are backed up to a Thecus N3200 3 bay NAS (with 4TB fitted) for redundancy. This also pulls duty as a media server if required.

If you've got any questions about any of these I might be able to offer an opinion or two..
 
Thanks to all....I am looking at either Western Digital MyBook World Edition ii - 2TB or Seagate Blackarmor - 2TB. Here is what I am not sure of. They both are 2x1TB design, so I am wondering if 1 of the drives fails can it be replaced? Or can data still be accessed on the other drive? If not then maybe 2 separate 1TB units is better. I would like to use 1TB as the main media share and the other simply as a backup of that.
 
serpentine009 said:
Thanks to all....I am looking at either Western Digital MyBook World Edition ii - 2TB or Seagate Blackarmor - 2TB. Here is what I am not sure of. They both are 2x1TB design, so I am wondering if 1 of the drives fails can it be replaced? Or can data still be accessed on the other drive? If not then maybe 2 separate 1TB units is better. I would like to use 1TB as the main media share and the other simply as a backup of that.
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I have read several reviews of the WD solutions, as this was originally what i wanted a few years ago, and they mostly said that the performance was sluggish.

I used to have a laptop with a 2bay icybox hooked up with a 750GB & 1.5TB drive in each bay, just as JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and that was fine for a while.

However i have now invested in a DS409+ 4 bay NAS case with 4x 1.5TB samsung drives in a RAID5. This gives me 4.02TB of usable storage space. After taking space for the o/s and formatting, and being a RAID5 setup, if one drive fails, I can replace the drive and rebuild the data from the parity data on the other three drives. Granted, all in all it cost me close to about
 
XplosiV said:
I have read several reviews of the WD solutions, as this was originally what i wanted a few years ago, and they mostly said that the performance was sluggish.

I used to have a laptop with a 2bay icybox hooked up with a 750GB & 1.5TB drive in each bay, just as JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and that was fine for a while.

However i have now invested in a DS409+ 4 bay NAS case with 4x 1.5TB samsung drives in a RAID5. This gives me 4.02TB of usable storage space. After taking space for the o/s and formatting, and being a RAID5 setup, if one drive fails, I can replace the drive and rebuild the data from the parity data on the other three drives. Granted, all in all it cost me close to about
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