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    Network Drive Options for Back Ups?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by bubbatex, Apr 8, 2008.

  1. bubbatex

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    I have one desktop and 2 laptops (soon to be 3) on a home network. I am looking at drive options to use primarily for back up purposes for all. 750gb to 1T would handle the load, but I believe I had rather have a NAS device rather than just connecting a USB drive to the main desktop (which is not always on). Would something like the D-Link DNS-323 be sufficent? Any other suggestions?
     
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    That should be sufficient, although I doubt the quality of that device would be able to give you maximum performance (i.e. gigabit ethernet write speeds).
    If you want to achieve gigabit ethernet speeds, you will have to either go with someone higher quality, such as a Netgear ReadyNAS (which would incidentally be about 5 times more expensive than the D-Link, but you do get what you pay for), or just buy (ebay is a good place as you don't need anything new for this) or build yourself a nice cheap small PC with a gigabit ethernet LAN PCI card with some distribution of Linux installed on it.
     
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    Thanks Budding. I actually have an old HP Pentium 4 - XP box that I was thinking about rebuilding for this purpose - but the LinkedIn would be faster and cheaper. I agree that you get what you pay for - but I don't see any real advantages for me in spending a lot of money on this. In my case, buying a ReadyNAS would be like buying a Ferrari to drive to the corner store....
     
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