Network drives

[cheets650]

Talk to me....

Any good? Thinking about one - my understanding is they connect to your router and you can access file etc while away from home. Will I use it?

[panrider_uk]

What sort of network drive?

I use a NAS and have installed them for lots of my customers.

I have all my documents plus music and video on mine.

If you get a NAS with 2 or more drives you will have protection against a drive failure.

The NAS I use (Synology) supports media servers so I can access my music and videos from my Squeezebox players and TV as well as all pcs, tablets and phones. I can also access all my stuff, securely, over the web.

It can also be a web server, mail server/client, recording station for cctv and much more. A cracking little unit.

Low power consumption so it's left on 24x7.

Mark
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[cheets650]

Thanks Mark

Looking at wd my cloud 3t

Think ill use it as need to access documents on ipad for work. Thanks for the advice

[panrider_uk]

Depending what you get you should also be able to have it run a scheduled backup to an external drive or other network device.

Mark
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Years ago I bought a 350Gb Buffalo Linkstation for my business. Does what it says on the tin, simple to use, it's a drive that lives on the network. Still does, although I am tempted to flash it and pop LINUX on it for a giggle.

When I needed more space, I bought a 3Tb Seagate BlackArmour NAS 110. I was tempted by the DLNA server, and access to files over the web. Do not buy one of these. The interface is non intuitive, the DLNA only supports AVI (even though it says it supports a wide range of others), the "Global access" is flaky (when their servers are responding). And by fuck is it slowwwww. The forums for this piece of kit are riddled with the same complaints, to which Seagate are deaf. I really wish I had read them before buying it.

Nowadays I tend to use multiple USB hard drives, but am on the lookout for a LAN drive again. At least one I can put the 110's 3Tb drive into so my money isn't completely wasted.

[edit] This may be the excuse I need to play with a Raspberry Pi
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[CaNsA]

A couple of years ago i bought This Buffalo LinkStation Live 2.0Tb DLNA Certified MultiMedia Network Storage with BitTorrent

Runs well, only down side is the web interface can be slow as shit but once its setup you dont need to access it again. I have prolly accessed the GUI maybe 4 times over the years.

I have all my films, telly progs and music on there.
On my main pc I have a NFS server running which streams all the media from the NAS to a R-Pi running XBMC.

Better off using NFS to send the data as the overheads are tiny compared to that of SMB, which is better for the R-Pi as eth0 and USB are on the data bus..... SMB will chew up the bandwidth on that bus like a fucker, NFS not so much