NAS Devices

[navy blue]

Looking at getting a NAS device, probably whack in a couple of 500gig drives and setup RAID1. Will be used for file backup, movies etc, need raid for the redundancy. Heard the Dlink device is OK, looking at spending as little as possible but willing to spend up to $300 for the NAS, then buy the HDD separately. Dont need anything special.....

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[SystemRat]

You might want to have a look at the Media Gate 350HD - Not only does it do NAS it plays all sorts of media like Divx etc on your telly.



One tip if you do get one go to and download the latest NAS drivers and also check out the 350HD make web site as they do lots of firmware updates that fix codec etc issues.

[z80]

Just be a bit careful with the Mediagate and similar units, the network speed can be a bit....."disappointing" when uploading, but fine for downloading/playing.

[navy blue]

Thanks Guys

Think it only allows 1 HDD. I also dont need a media device as my LCD TV has a wireless media gateway built into it, which works a treat.

Cheers

[PunX0r]

For $300 you could get an old PC well and truly worth running freenas

Get it from

[computekk]

Just be a bit careful with the Mediagate and similar units, the network speed can be a bit....."disappointing" when uploading, but fine for downloading/playing.

agreed

mediagate is quite slow when uploading files, streaming is fine though

[computekk]

For $300 you could get an old PC well and truly worth running freenas

Get it from

get ur self a via pc2500 mobo, and a pci sata raid card
and you can have as many drives as you want, with much more flexibility

[navy blue]

punxor

Guess the limitation of this would be older pc's would not support larger hard drives, ie mainboard limitation, otherwise it sound like a good option to me as I have a few spare older machines lying around collecting dust.

Does Freenas work fine wirelessly, ie using a pci wireless card as I have some distance between where I would setup the nas and the router etc.

Cheers