recommendation for home + home office, confused by options

That's great info Herbieo, many thanks.

Only problem: I am PC-less (Mac user). Going to be a challenge, as I'm in a home office, and there are no PC users (that I know of) nearby.

Cheers!

Chas

(edited to fix typo)

HERBIEO wrote:

Ok thats what i wanted to know i thought they may be ST3000DM001 The latest firmware for that drive is CC4H http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/e ... Q/223651en The new firmware download, version CC4H, is recommended to enhance the performance and/or reliability of the drive. Previous versions of firmware with these models and part numbers are CC46, CC47, CC49, CC4C, or CC4G. The upgrade is a free download available here and we are told that this helps with the chirping noises that some users are complaining about. The best and safest way to update the firmware on the drives is to download the bootable ISO image from the link above, burn it to a CD shutdown pc disconnect all drives in your PC and connect the 2 ST3000DM001 drives to your PC sata ports so only those drives are connected this way you cant mess anything up on your PC drives, make sure you have the the bootable CD you burned in your CD drive start PC and boot from the CD and it should find the ST3000DM001 drives and you can update the firmware, when its finished shutdown PC disconnect the drives and reconnect the other drives and all should be fine you can now put the drives in your NAS, note: if you allready have the drives setup in the NAS make sure you shut it down before you remove them and label them so you put them back into the same drive bays.