Looking for a good NAS

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Shopping for a proper good Network Attached Storage device. Was looking at the WD Mybook World II, but read a bunch of horror stories. The WD Sharespace looked OK, but damn expensive. Now looking at maybe a Synology or a Netgear ReadyNAS or something.

Problem is, I don't know a whole lot about this stuff, so some guidance from someone who does will be appreciated. Any ideas? Must take at least 2 drives, operate Mac & PC on same network. Not sure what else is important.
 
What do you really need it for? You need to seriously ask yourself why you need it.

In my experience the several NAS drives I tried (including that WD MyBook II POS) were all horrendously slow.

Eventually I just bought two more hard drives and put them into one of my PCs and shared the drives. That solved my storage and access problems. So I have to leave a PC on all the time... but I have 5 in my house anyway.

Do you just need more storage space... or is there really some need for an
NAS solution? Are you willing to pay the price in cost and sacrifice of speed for the convenience?
 
Garyvdh said:
What do you really need it for? You need to seriously ask yourself why you need it.

In my experience the several NAS drives I tried (including that WD MyBook II POS) were all horrendously slow.

Eventually I just bought two more hard drives and put them into one of my PCs and shared the drives. That solved my storage and access problems. So I have to leave a PC on all the time... but I have 5 in my house anyway.

Do you just need more storage space... or is there really some need for an
NAS solution? Are you willing to pay the price in cost and sacrifice of speed for the convenience?
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Agreed, bought an iOmega NAS unit about 8 months ago, it was so slow that I ended up using it as an external USB drive enslosure (luckily it had a USB port).
 
1. How important is the device's speed?
2. How important is the device's data reliability?
3. How much usable storage space do you require?
4. how big a hole in your pocket can this make?

You can get an external USB enclosure that also has a 10/100 network point and throw in whatever (single) drive you want to. Speed is quite slow; RAID is non-existent; storage can be up to 2TB. Cost excluding the drive is a couple of hundred Rs.
You can get a "mama" NAS enclosure with 1Gbit network and throw in a bunch of drives in a RAID 5 config. Speed is good; RAID is parity-based; storage can be over 10TB. Cost excluding the drives is a couple of thousand Rs.
 
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