Home NAS Options

[newpersn]

Well, My Seagate share NAS has packed up. After 5 years of abuse. (single disk)

 

I'm now after a NASfor home with dual disks.

 

A D-Link Share Center 2bay has court my eye but i'm wondering what everyone else could recommend?

[ZeroNeg]

Have a look at the synology ones. Always wanted one but have suffered the torment and slowness of a buffalo for 4 years. Everyone that has a synology says the built in operating system is the best. Ebuyer have a 2 disk one at £130 at the moment and I am tempted. Model is ds215j. It has loads of extras built in and the price is falling. Just go to add some hard drives and away you go.

[southhamster]

I've installed 6 Qnap NAS for school, home and 3 small businesses that I support. They have all been 100% reliable - it's the damned hard drives that fail. At least with RAID 1 they are still usable. The firmware gets better and more feature rich with release. Plenty of useful apps including VM support on some models and you can use as a simple PC with kbd, mouse and monitor.

Trying not to be a fanboi but my experience is very positive!

[bald_pig]

I have a d-link 2-bay at home, I find it quite slow and painful to use, I also have a buffalo NAS which is much quicker when used.

[TonyJM]

I am using an HP Microserver (bought through work ) with 4 x mixed SATA disks and UnRAID from Lime Technologies... 6Tb usable in all!

 

I cant rate this highly enough - previously I was running it on a PC chassis with an Icy Box IB-545SSK (5-bay SATA disk caddy which fits into 2 x 5.25" bays).

 

Google UnRAID and as it is free (up to 3 disks I think) and then the pro version is only about $25... well worth a look. By all means PM me if you need any more info.

[jinnantonnixx]

The Microserver option is a good choice.

 

Here's a nice free NAS OS with lots of features.

OpenMediaVault - The open network attached storage solution

[newpersn]

I would like something small. I wanted to go down the HP Micro server but it was too big.

[TonyJM]

I would like something small. I wanted to go down the HP Micro server but it was too big.

 

I think the problem with size is that the unit has to be big enough to hold a number of disks... you could use an ultra small chassis but then you will probably only get 2 disks in it which would mean that the best you will get is a mirror (RAID1) solution... but even so - 2 x 4Tb (or even 2 x 6Tb) disks is still a decent size NAS for home.

[newpersn]

I only would like a mirror. My last nas was only a 1tb single drive.

 

I have seen a Netgear 2 Bay Nas.

[Rob_D]

I've been using a qnap NAS at home for about a year now, running as a media server so it's been heavily used. So far no problems with it, the web UI is intuitive, and setup was way easier than I was expecting.

[SHimmer45]

had a linkstation duo for a few years it pretty decent, only had one disk fail.

repopulated with a pair of WD Reds

[glen_j]

I've just ordered a qnap ts-212p, it supports 2 hdd's and was less than £100 might be worth a look?

[Davit2005]

I wouldn't rule out a MicroServer. There are plenty free NAS OS's out there and you could even build one virtual and have another VM running something else.

[psycho98]

What about a WD My drive Duo , ive heard that theses are quite good