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Socoder -> On Topic -> NAS Drives |
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| Wed, 06 Aug 2014, 18:25 | |
Jayenkai
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All of my recent "Mass Backup" stuff is making me realise just how shittilly slow my NAS drive truly is. It's alright once the stuff's on there. It's a very capable backup drive, and is also great for doing DLNA based music/video streaming around the house. .. But bloody hell, is it slow at writing stuff.. I'm currently sitting waiting for it to store my latest iTunes purchases. I bought a couple of old Songs To Wear Pants To albums, each one containing about 70 tracks, each track about half a minute or so long.. ... And so I wait... And wait... *sigh* Doing the complete backups is even worse. So, I'm finding myself looking through possible replacements, and am alarmingly shocked at the prices of half-decent ones. A full-on kick-ass proper NAS setup can rocket up to about £600, once you add a couple of drives to the thing. GAH!! Any recommendations? What are you guys using? And how fast are they!!?? -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Wed, 06 Aug 2014, 19:53 | |
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dna |
I still use two external hard drives. Both are IDE. One is an 80 Gig Drive that has ports on the front of it which is useful when I plug the drive into the USB slot since it gives me two on the front of the box. So if I have 3 on the laptop, plug that drive in I still have four free. The 80 gig is not that slow but my backups consist of mainly a drag and drop of files into the drive. I do not use any special software for backups. The other drive is a 500 Gig drive, that when formatted leaves me with approximately 450 gig. This drive is OK for speed as well. Your backup needs are probably larger than mine. I rely on backing up the software installers and any work related files such as graphics just so I can reinstall them again later during a full cleaning of the drive. I would recommend an external drive that has ports on the front so that you can give yourself some options when you are running your equipment. My not using a complete image backup of a full installation and restoring that may be on a different level as for speed and size. I can only recommend that store that no one here likes much www.fryselectronics.com for a large overview of what is available. They have some great External USB 3.0 boxes for as little as $20 US, some with a 3 year or if you're lucky, a lifetime warranty. Putting a USB 3.0 new bare drive into one of those is about $80.00 US which would give you a terabyte of space. These are just some options. There are more but few cheaper with more reliable warranties than Frys. -=-=- DNA |
| Thu, 07 Aug 2014, 02:43 | |
steve_ancell
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I use one of those "WD My Passport" drives. |
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