Jill Sandwich
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I'm no longer in the market for a NAS so I'll just slip out the back door while you guys eat all the nachos
Evlar said:Always concerned about the energy consumption of these devices. It's one more thing running perpetually, so providing a hibernation state and 'wake-on-LAN' type functionality would be important to me.
Agreed. Although it can't be worse that what I'm doing now (leaving old PC on 24/7). I wish there was a way to wake up a PC whenever a certain machine on the network is turned on (PS3).Evlar said:Always concerned about the energy consumption of these devices. It's one more thing running perpetually, so providing a hibernation state and 'wake-on-LAN' type functionality would be important to me.
half a moon said:What's the consensus on all the raid types? I'd want at least raid 1.
Evlar said:Always concerned about the energy consumption of these devices. It's one more thing running perpetually, so providing a hibernation state and 'wake-on-LAN' type functionality would be important to me.
lachesis said:Perhaps in my next home, I might spend some money and attach ethernet port in every room in the house, and perhaps 4x in-wall ethernet sockets near my TV area, so that all could be networked with good ol' gigabit wire for faster transfer.
This is probably what I'll do.nodle said:Just build yourself a machine that uses Windows Home Server. It's awesome. I stream to my PS3 just fine with it. I tried one of those Synology NAS once, and it was so slow due to the lack of memory and cpu. So i returned it. Once you use WHS you will fall in love with it. Microsoft really did well.
lachesis said:Actually I'm thinking about getting a NAS soon. Upon checking many models... I just decided to go with Synology DS209, and double WD green 1TB models (firmware upgrade needed) in RAID1. Also it's known for most robust features along with top of the class read/write speed.
Probably more than I really need though - as I'll be just using wireless .11 n streaming and back-up device for my daughter's HD cam videos and photos... as the wireless n speed will be the bottleneck of the whole thing. Nice clean design is another plus. I believe it has built in sleep function and all so the power consumption is pretty low... like 7 watts, IIRC, in sleep mode.
Perhaps in my next home, I might spend some money and attach ethernet port in every room in the house, and perhaps 4x in-wall ethernet sockets near my TV area, so that all could be networked with good ol' gigabit wire for faster transfer.
Does WHS offer anything that you can't get in a standard Linux distro?nodle said:Just build yourself a machine that uses Windows Home Server. It's awesome. I stream to my PS3 just fine with it. I tried one of those Synology NAS once, and it was so slow due to the lack of memory and cpu. So i returned it. Once you use WHS you will fall in love with it. Microsoft really did well.
Cheeto said:Does WHS offer anything that you can't get in a standard Linux distro?
nodle said:Maybe the ease for a regular user that isn't use to Linux. Plus there are alot of addons. Check out http://www.wegotserved.com/ for more info. Seems like everyone that uses it falls in love with it. There are really no complaints out there for it. Even for a MS product :lol
Cool thanks, I wasn't trying to troll or anything... I just want to know what's out there. I'm eventually going to centralize all the data in my house in a server. Right now it's just sitting on a couple 1.5 TB drives in my HTPC.nodle said:Maybe the ease for a regular user that isn't use to Linux. Plus there are alot of addons. Check out http://www.wegotserved.com/ for more info. Seems like everyone that uses it falls in love with it. There are really no complaints out there for it. Even for a MS product :lol
nodle said:I used hardware raid before i went to it. But trying to add larger drives etc. was where it go me without having to re-build the whole array. I just wanted something where I could toss in larger drives when I purchase them. Also compared to a raid array. Even if my machine dies I can just pop the drives out and still be able to see my data. It has it's pluses over raid.
Cheeto said:Cool thanks, I wasn't trying to troll or anything... I just want to know what's out there. I'm eventually going to centralize all the data in my house in a server. Right now it's just sitting on a couple 1.5 TB drives in my HTPC.
RevoDS said:My Acer EasyStore H340 was easily the best purchase I've made this year. It's a little slow since it's only running on a netbook CPU, but 4 HDD bays and the capabilities of Windows Home Server make it well worth it, especially since it's quite cheap, even compared to most NASs (paid mine $400)
I have a free copy of Server 2008 R2 through my college, should I just use that instead?nodle said:Just build yourself a machine that uses Windows Home Server. It's awesome. I stream to my PS3 just fine with it. I tried one of those Synology NAS once, and it was so slow due to the lack of memory and cpu. So i returned it. Once you use WHS you will fall in love with it. Microsoft really did well.
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