Is this a decent investment ?

[leeland]

I found a neat item (NAS) that can act like a SAN I guess for FTP, Media, and file storage vs. building a computer to do the same thing.

link

I was looking at getting two 320 gb WD harddrives and doing a RAID 1...

Any reason that this would be a bad choice ? They are on new egg for around 300 and the two harddrives would be 125 a piece...

Any comments would be appreciated.

Leeland

 

[Luckyboy1]

Link is dead, please fix. What is so big as to need all the space on one drive system and what's so critical as to need the 1 RAID? 1 RAID ain't any faster than any single drive.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: Luckyboy1
Link is dead, please fix. What is so big as to need all the space on one drive system and what's so critical as to need the 1 RAID? 1 RAID ain't any faster than any single drive.

FIXED THE LINK, SORRY ABOUT THAT

I am looking at building or buying something that is just for storage...pictures, home videos, music...ect.

the reason I went with 320 gb drives is they are in my mind pretty cheap at 125 bucks a piece on new egg. I mean I could have gotten smaller drives but why not get the biggest you can for roughly 100 bucks a piece...

The unit I linked to also can do a bunch of other stuff like FTP, ITunes server, Photo Web server to display pictures...

I want RAID 1 for redundancy mostly for the pictures of our children..ect...I don't really care about speed as much as I do redundancy...

Does that seem off base to you ?

 

[Boobs McGee]

I say that if it gives you peace of mind that your important data will be safe then go for it.

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: Boobs McGee
I say that if it gives you peace of mind that your important data will be safe then go for it.

Well that is my goal...but I just kind of stumbled across this and don't have much intel on devices like this....

I was planning on just building a barebones file server with a RAID configuration...this product seems to do the same thing at a comparable cost...

 

[snoturtle]

I noticed those a few weeks ago myself and wasn't able to find much on them 🙁

They seem much nicer than some of the low end crap ones that have come out lately though

 

[arcenite]

Booked for later

 

[chilled]

Just wondering - do you have to log in each time you want to access the files?

 

[snoturtle]

AFAIK from what I read you can just map it as a network drive for easier access

 

[leeland]

Originally posted by: chilled
Just wondering - do you have to log in each time you want to access the files?

Same thing as the post above....I believe you map the device as a drive and you can access it from any device once it is mapped.


and from what I have seen it appears to be one of the better deals compared to the cheap 100 dollar bare bones NAS's/SAN like the one Netgear has...

Guess you get what you pay for.

I guessed it would cost around 500 to 600 dollars for the whole set up with 2 drives of around 300 GB for a RAID 1