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Which ready Nas Newbie
Hello everyone this is my first post. I would like to purchase a ready NAS ASAP. This is what I have and what I want to do. I have cable modem system and using a netgear wireless router and a 8 port Netgear switch connected to the it. I have the usual things connected two printers Directv etc. I have two desktop computer and two laptops one of the desktops belong to my kid. Anyway what I want to do is to put my itunes music, and photos on a share folder were everyone have access to them. Also want to me able to backup documents on all desktops computers. Or should I just place my documents on the NAS were can get to them by desktop or by laptop? Setup three personal folders for each person in the house. I am not sure if I am going to stream movies at this time. Any suggestions. Oh I forgot photos, music and other things total 700Gigs at this time but that is just for me that is not including my wife and kid. I am looking at the two drive systems and installing two 2TB drives, or should I go for a four drive unit?
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- I would suggest that you go for a 4 bay nas. In the process thru X-RAID you can expand easily.
- If four bay which model?
- What's your budget?
mdgm wrote: What's your budget?
Well as long as it is not over $700 that is without Hard drives it is ok. My first priority is that the unit do what I want it to do. I do not need the top of line as long it works and has good speed. Of course the lower the price the more I can put into hard drives. Also dose Netgear have a service were you can backup your NAS? For example if I have my music photos, and doc on my NAS and my house catch on fire.- With a $700 limit, I think I'd go for an 4-bay ultra 4 plus (RNDP400U) - I am seeing that at Amazon for about $530. You could also get a 6-bay ultra (RNDU6000) for about $720. But if your storage needs are in the 1TB range right now, it will take a while for you to fill 6 bays.
You will need a backup solution - possibly based on external USB drives, or possibly using disks on one of your desktops.
Cloud backup is of course a viable approach, assuming you have adequate uplink bandwidth. Netgear offers ReadyNAS Vault cloud storage, but with current pricing the annual cost for 750 GB would be $2300. They also partner with Egnyte, which currently is priced about $540 annually for 1TB - cheaper but still out of my price range. There are certainly cheaper possibilities that I've seen posted here (crashplan.com and onlinestoragesolution.com), it would be nice to hear from folks who are using these services (or similarly priced ones) on how hard it was to set up, any issues they've seen... StephenB wrote: There are certainly cheaper possibilities that I've seen posted here (crashplan.com and onlinestoragesolution.com), it would be nice to hear from folks who are using these services (or similarly priced ones) on how hard it was to set up, any issues they've seen...
If you have basic Linux commandline skills then setting up Crashplan is fairly easy. Having researched many of these services specifically for NAS backup, it certainly seems to be the best service available to NAS users (it runs directly on th NAS unlike most others) and very cost effective ($50 per year max to backup as much NAS data as you want including unlimited versions) Very much recommended.
Haven't seen anyone post a successful setup with onlinestoragesolution.com - seems similarly priced but does not offer the same level of features. Personally I'd also be wary of entrusting my backups with a less well recognized service
I would however recommend online storage in addition to a local backup - much faster to backup & restore and reduces risk should the online service ever disappear
My unix is extremely rusty (old enough that I've never done anything with linux) - if someone has an explicit how-to guide with crashplan they could post it would certainly help me at least. onlinestoragesolution is cheaper, but the main attraction is that they directly support rsync - making me think that setting up a frontview backup job would be all that is needed.sphardy wrote: StephenB wrote: There are certainly cheaper possibilities that I've seen posted here (crashplan.com and onlinestoragesolution.com), it would be nice to hear from folks who are using these services (or similarly priced ones) on how hard it was to set up, any issues they've seen...
If you have basic Linux commandline skills then setting up Crashplan is fairly easy. Having researched many of these services specifically for NAS backup, it certainly seems to be the best service available to NAS users (it runs directly on the NAS unlike most others) and very cost effective ($50 per year max to backup as much NAS data as you want including unlimited versions) Very much recommended.
Haven't seen anyone post a successful setup with onlinestoragesolution.com - seems similarly priced but does not offer the same level of features. Personally I'd also be wary of entrusting my backups with a less well recognized service
I would however recommend online storage in addition to a local backup - much faster to backup & restore and reduces risk should the online service ever disappear
I already have local backup in place, and am looking into cloud as a secondary backup.- 1. Install Java & CrashPlan: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18139#p269908
2a. Connect local client to server install: http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/h ... ess_client
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2b. Connect local client to server install: viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18139&p=332049#p327363
You will find that CrashPlan is far more capable that using Frontview Backup: Unlimited revisions, deduplication, data encryption, remote access to backed-up data from PC/Mac/Mobile, graphical client to select data to be backed up, clear status at all times, continuous realtime backup to name what immediately comes to mind
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