Help me choose a NAS Drive (£150-200)

Patrick20

Alright MSE Techies, I'm looking for a good NAS Drive under £200 that suits my needs. Its for storing my important university/work files so it needs to to have 2 drives that the files are mirrored on. It also needs to be as reliable a brand as possible as I need it to last a while. Some of my work is videos so it would be nice for it to be fast enough to stream the videos straight from the device(although if that is too much to ask I suppose I can drop that requirement)

I think thats all I need really. Any reccomendations? Or can anyone point me in the right direction?

John_Gray

Capacity...?

Patrick20

About 1TB(2x500GB)-2TB(2X1TB).

debitcardmayhem

I personally use a Buffalo NAS (1 Disk 1TB) plus a 1TB USB drive which I can sync to using M$ sync toy. If the NAS firmware/controller/disks inside the NAS go smoking/whatever I still have a backup. Plus the USB one tends to be faster since I have only 100Mb network router (and wireless 54Mb in a dream world for those speeds are theoretical)

kabayiri

Something like Synology DS211 - latest variant would be a good device.

It may have features you dont want to pay for though (DLNA etc)

free4440273

Netgear Stora is what I have (one of ) and very happy with it //

kwikbreaks

I use a D-Link DNS323 which is fast and reliable. Another decent brand one I've seen recommended here is the Netgear Stora.

You need to check some reviews of whatever you pick as some are slow.

Patrick20

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm going to buy the netgear stora without any hard drives and I'm going to install two 1Tb drives as it comes out cheaper than buying them pre-installed. I'm needing to buy a new router aswell so yesterday i bought this WD Elements 1TB external drive so that I could backup my files immediately before anything happened to them.

free4440273

Patrick20 wrote: »

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm going to buy the netgear stora without any hard drives and I'm going to install two 1Tb drives as it comes out cheaper than buying them pre-installed. I'm needing to buy a new router aswell so yesterday i bought this WD Elements 1TB external drive so that I could backup my files immediately before anything happened to them.

It's a great device (as above ) I can assure you /

Lleucu

sorry to join this thread has anyone got one of these devices working with BT Home Hub or would I need a new router as well?

Lleucu

More techie questions about NAS.

1. With the Net Stora can the files be copied across by you without using FTP?
2. With distant access what about security?
3. If the BT Home Hub (or other router) ports are opened does this compromise the security of the home network?