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    Replacment for old single drive NAS

    Thought I would follow up on this quickly. The DS115j was able to do a backup to a USB connected drive in about 8 1/2 hours. Doing full backup with the old ~2010 Linkstation LS-XHL was taking over 24 hours, like ~30hrs. Also went from ~4-7MB/s wireless 130Mbit file transfers on the old...
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    Replacment for old single drive NAS

    Thanks guys. I wound up ordering a DS115j. Yeah it's the simple to configure model with just a single drive, not many professional reviews but the one I did find was very positive (here). Also had great user reviews at every retailer I found, vs Netgear and Buffalo which always seemed to have...
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    Replacment for old single drive NAS

    Thanks stevech. I didn't realize they had time backup ability, one of the things I miss from using OS X ('time machine'). Also the ability to configure separate volumes is good. Is the backup to the internal drive is much faster than to an external one? Also, any risk to having the backup...
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    Replacment for old single drive NAS

    Hi all! I have an old Buffalo LinkStation LS-XHL 1TB like the one here, had it for ~5 years now. It's attached to an external 1TB USB 3.0 drive for backups via the USB 2.0 port. It's old enough now that it's making noises it didn't make in the past. Probably just a fan going out. In any...
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