Help Finding NAS With Or Without Drive Included.

PeteHerts

Hello everyone.

I'm looking for a NAS device that will read and write a NTFS formatted disk drive over LAN not USB at a decent speed please.
It seems to be a bit of a minefield finding one that does this as most seem to only do FAT32 over LAN or the speed isn't great or it can only read NTFS.
Any help would be appreciated and many thanks in advance.

Pete.

jpe20

I am too looking for some cheap NAS storage (1TB) to archive my dvds and play them via my ps3 over the wireless network. Not seen anything cheap yet ......

Lakeuk

Alot of these NAS unit's will allow you to reformat to NTFS, I'd pick a model you're interested in and do a search on whether anyone has reformated it to NTFS. Fat32 tends to be used to be compatiable with the older windows.

Alot of people will just use their old PC as a NAS

The Drobo supports NTFS, fast if you use firewire 800 - http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobo.html

I use a very cheap method, although it's not over a LAN
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landwomble

all the cheap ones have limited network speed (like 3-4mb/sec). decent ones like the irfrant and buffalo linkstations aren't terribly cheap.

if you're semi technical then i can recommend freeNAS and an old PC. get any old PC that's above 500mhz, stick one or more big disks in it, and download and run the free FreeNAS. you don't need a monitor, keyboard or mouse once setup and you can hide the box in a cupboard once it's running. this'll let you run up to gigabit speeds and do RAID, JBOD etc. it's very good and you control it via a webbrowser. It'll also act as an FTP server, do iTunes etc.

wolfman

FreeNAS is great, although mine has stopped mounting my drives but I'll fix it.

Great piece of software though and easy to manage via the web interface. Plenty of How-To's out there (pics included)