Need help choosing a Readynas for Home

PapaBear wrote:

Another factor is internet connection speed. To back up my 60GB of critical files via internet would take 54 hours at my 3Mb/s connection speed. I live in a rural area and am actually appreciative of the 3Mb/s DSL after having to use satellite for a number of years. Backing up that same 60GB to a USB2 external drive takes a little over 21 minutes. Obviously if I was as fortunate as some of my friends living in large cities with an internet connection speed of 20+ Mb/s my solution might be a little different.

Crashplan uses data deduplication and compression, which can make the transfers more efficient. But even with that (and a fast ethernet connection) the speed issue remains. It'd take a few months if I ever needed to restore all my data from their servers. On the plus side, it runs automatically and is economical. So far it seems to be working out as a good disaster recovery option.