Re: decent NAS

#1 11-01-2008, 10:11 PM

Daniel James wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution.
> > I want a small, low power box that I can run headless ...
>
> I'm quite pleased with my Netgear (Infrant) ReadyNAS Duo. It's a
> Sparc-based appliance running Debian, supporting 2 drives.
>
> I've measured mine at around 25-27W with two drives idle, and 11W with
> both drives spun down.
>
> The Duo comes in at a bit over 500+VAT with a single drive, there's
> also a 4-drive model (the NV+) but it's disproportionately more
> expensive.

They look pretty good, but they go for as low as £150, so what made your
model so expensive?

http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=...+Duo&scoring=p

How do you think these compare with the Drobo, if you are familar with it?

Cheers

ss.

#2 11-02-2008, 09:40 AM

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Syndrome wrote:
> They look pretty good, but they go for as low as £150, so what
> made your model so expensive?

Typo/thinko ... I meant to say £200 -- I'm not sure how that
came out as £500?

I actually paid 189+VAT for the Duo 2150 and a bundled second 500GB
drive when it was a "Today Only" offer at scan.co.uk (it's 231.99+
today).

For a little less you can get the Icy Box NAS4220 (about £85+, without
drives) but it doesn't have the features (no AFP support, which the OP
specifically requested, for one thing) and some reviewers have reported
bugs in the software.

For quite a bit more you can get one of the Qnap boxes, which look
really nice, but cost more (around £235+ for the TS 209 Pro II without
any disks - unfortunately you need the "pro" model to get NFS support
which was a requirement for me).

Cheers,
Daniel.