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bogie said:
Strangely Brown said:
bogie said:
what sort of backup does NAS come with though? is it 9mm or 45mm? ...I hear 45mm is better, but 9mm is higher volume ? 
45mm? ... on a handgun?Methinks you meant .45 inches?
however that's nowhere near a 4.5cm bullet, which would be pretty mental
I'm *sure* some American gun enthusiast has had a go at making a rifle out of a ship's main gun or something equally ridiculous and trying to fire it - must be able to find something crazy on YouTube - bigger is better after all
Back on topic - I use a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo with two terabyte disks in RAID1 mode. It's well built, has a temperature-sensitive fan, and 'feels' high quality. The software is hackable (Linux) and there are plenty of official and homebrew add-ons.
However one thing I've never been able to get to work (which has made the NAS more or less useless for me, as this was the whole point of buying it) is to get it working as an Apple Time Machine destination. The ReadyNAS Duo claims that Time Machine compatibility is supported... but I think it's only supported in specific configurations. It doesn't work with mine, and my configuration is only different because the users log into the machines with the OS X Server authenticating them (rather than each Mac being a standalone machine).... so if you're running a Mac network with a server, don't expect the ReadyNAS to do Time Machine for all the client boxes
MonkeyBusiness said:
bogwoppit said:
Bah wish I'd known about this when I bought mine - says you have to claim within 30 days of purchase.
I bought mine a few weeks after the last promotion ended. I filled in the form and they sent me a very nice email saying they would honour the promotion. Worth a try.I use a Synology 209+ with two 1.5TB drives in RAID1 config. It can stream HD to my PS3 while simultauonusly streaming FLAC to my 2 Squeezeboxes.
I bought mine 2nd hand from a guy at work who upgraded to a 5 bay QNAP as he wanted RAID 5 with hot swapable drives.
It's a great bit of kit with a very simple UI (something the QNAP doesn't have I understand) so is very simple for a network imbicile such as myself to use.
A+
I bought mine 2nd hand from a guy at work who upgraded to a 5 bay QNAP as he wanted RAID 5 with hot swapable drives.
It's a great bit of kit with a very simple UI (something the QNAP doesn't have I understand) so is very simple for a network imbicile such as myself to use.
A+
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