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sliston32 · #1 Post by **sliston32** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:45 am

Hi im looking for a network storage device to use for backing up my home pc and my z60m. I was looking at a buffalo link station pro and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this or has a better suggestion. Size of the drives doesnt need to be huge but around 250g would be nice with logging and sleep mode which the link station does not have......
I have been using a second drive on the home pc but its been giving bad sector reports and i know its going to fail soon.......
looked a building a raid system as i have a spare p3 board but decided against it for space and time considerations
Thanks for your input

Sean

bwd · #2 Post by **bwd** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:56 pm

Hi Sean:
I just bought a Synology NAS DS-101. I'm very happy with it so far - no problems, it is easy to use and set up, and has a lot of extra features (print server, email alerts, usb support). It also has logging and hibernate modes. The price was $110 cdn without the hard drive. I put a 320GB western digital IDE drive inside. I'm using Acronis True Image Home to do daily backups and it's working well. Here is a review link:

http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2005/02/2 ... index.html

dave

sliston32 · #3 Post by **sliston32** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:47 am

Dave

cheers, an interesting alternative with better fetures.

Sean

#4 Post by **BillMorrow** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:23 am

i just MUST add, here, that i use acronis to make images and i store them on surplus 2.5 inch drives accumulated through the last few years..
especially since thinkpads have moved to SATA from PATA, i use all my older 60gig and 100gig PATA drives is a cheap (under $20 USD) external USB2 HDD box..

very handy and convienent..

the only better solution is a raid in an external box..

i use a 500gig raid1 in my desktop box to have redundant storage..

egibbs · #5 Post by **egibbs** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:49 am

I have both a Linkstation (160 GB model) and a Netgear SC-101 with a 300 GB Seagate in it.

The Linkstation is fine - just sits there and does it's thing with no bother.

The Netgear works ok, but the software insists on installing it as a virtual local drive rather than a standard network drive. I guess for some people that is easier to understand, but it means you need to install a bunch of proprietary drivers and networking software. I would much prefer to access it as a standard network drive, but it doesn't give you that option.

Ed Gibbs

#6 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:58 am

egibbs wrote:I have both a Linkstation (160 GB model) and a Netgear SC-101 with a 300 GB Seagate in it.

The Linkstation is fine - just sits there and does it's thing with no bother.

The Netgear works ok, but the software insists on installing it as a virtual local drive rather than a standard network drive. I guess for some people that is easier to understand, but it means you need to install a bunch of proprietary drivers and networking software. I would much prefer to access it as a standard network drive, but it doesn't give you that option.

Ed Gibbs

Is that virtual local drive a dynamic volume according to Disk Management Tools? If so, the volume cannot be moved to a different machine. Thanks, ... JD Hurst

egibbs · #7 Post by **egibbs** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:52 am

Dunno, and I'm not on my home network right now to look.

You can certainly see and access the Netgear volume from multiple machines as long as you install the software - I have it on two different machines and it shows up like a local drive.

Slow as Eskimo snot though. Moving a 2 GB mpeg to it takes about 1/2 hour.

Ed Gibbs

#8 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:56 am

egibbs wrote:Dunno, and I'm not on my home network right now to look.

You can certainly see and access the Netgear volume from multiple machines as long as you install the software - I have it on two different machines and it shows up like a local drive.

Slow as Eskimo snot though. Moving a 2 GB mpeg to it takes about 1/2 hour.

Ed Gibbs

That probably means the disk is operating in PIO mode (it probably can't do Ultra DMA over a network). And 'Mode' is independent of "basic / dynamic"
... JD Hurst

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