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    2,5" external drive for backup of NAS?

    Well, I was planning to have placed the order for a 2,5" external until today evening, to be shipped during the weekend, but I couldn't. I'm not really sure about it now.. I would definitely enjoy not bothering with an adapter and even more power cables, and I could get another of the 2,5"...
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    2,5" external drive for backup of NAS?

    jlake, thank you for the reply. I was also leaning towards a 2,5 solution, for ease of carrying off-site. stevech, that's a good option too. Though the main reason I was thinking about a 2,5 drive was working without an adapter. I think I will get a 2,5" external drive plus a "powered hub"...
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    2,5" external drive for backup of NAS?

    Perhaps this can be a solution: If I'm backing up my NAS to a USB 3,5" drive, and both are powered from the same UPS.. When the home electricity goes off, and the UPS tells the NAS that it has low battery left; can the NAS safely disconnect/power off the USB 3,5" drive, so that when the UPS runs...
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    2,5" external drive for backup of NAS?

    But doesn't that make every 2,5" external drive "unreliable"? :confused:
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    2,5" external drive for backup of NAS?

    Dear stevech, thank you for the reply. Your replies are always a big help for me - both when I was asking a year ago, and also now. I have also read your messages on the benefits of having 2 separate drives/volumes and I agree it's a good idea. The 2,5" drives I'm considering (WD Passport 2...
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    2,5" external drive for backup of NAS?

    Hello, Last year around this time I had asked here for some advice regarding my "first NAS" - I have been using a WD Live and I'm mostly happy, but I'm interested in getting a more advanced one (now that I have a "smart" TV, Airplay-connected sound system and can get a higher internet upload...
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    Multi-stream routers and multiple devices

    Hello, Sorry for the "basic" question.. I'm planning to purchase a Linksys EA-3500 (been planning for a long time, but other things got in the way). It's a 2x 2,4 gHz + 3x 5 gHz streams "N750" router, but at the moment I don't have any multi-stream capable clients. I'd like to know if I...
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    Is there something EA4500 does better than EA6500?

    Hello again stevech, This "Time Backup / copies from x weeks ago" seems really useful. Still, I think I would be OK using the in-built Time Machine of the Mac at the moment, and letting the NAS copy itself as a whole to an external. Is your buying strategy different now? :) For electronics...
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    Cheap "Starter" NAS - WD MyBook Live?

    Hello, Thanks for the replies, and sorry I couldn't reply for a while. stevech, I'm also an engineer, and I would *really* prefer a Synology or QNap NAS. I checked the specs, features & applications, the BYOD concept and the web demo of the Synology, and ideally I would have a Synology...
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    Cheap "Starter" NAS - WD MyBook Live?

    Hello, I've been interested in NASes for a long time, and even though I don't really "need" one, I want to get a basic one to get a taste of them. Here in Turkey a QNap TS-112 costs 240 $, a Synology DS110j 255 $, Zyxel NSA-310 190 $ and a NSA-320 260 $, without disks. Since I have only 1...
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    Is there something EA4500 does better than EA6500?

    Hello stevech, I have a Mac, I don't know if Second Copy works on OS X. I think Carbon Copy Cloner is the preferred option for Macs? I would rather have the backup take place without the need of a PC. Is that not possible? AFAIK the "good" NASes can back themselves up to network...
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    Can you recommend a NAS OS / premade NAS that does the following?

    Hello stevech, Thank you for the replies to my questions! If I had a 2 drive NAS, I'd probably make them independent volumes. I don't have a huge collection of videos either, I was just wondering what would happen if a volume/share on the NAS is greater than the capacity of a backup drive...
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    Can you recommend a NAS OS / premade NAS that does the following?

    Hello, Even though my chances of purchasing a Synology (or QNap, or Thecus) at this point is slim, I'd like to ask a question about these "expanding" storage pools and backup. Suppose I have a DS213 with a single 2 TB drive in it, which is being backed up to a 2 TB USB drive. I add another...
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    Is there something EA4500 does better than EA6500?

    Hello stevech, I agree it won't be a good idea to let the router act as a "primary NAS". I don't have a small PC to do the job, plus I really like NAS'es (those small, cute computer-like boxes :) ) so I want to get one, even though it's not a "necessity". At the moment I don't have much to...
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    Is there something EA4500 does better than EA6500?

    Hello again, Mr. Higgins, thanks for the reply. My connection is only 8 MBit, so I won't gain anything by going with the EA6500. The higher storage read/write is pretty important, though. As wireless clients I have an iPhone 4 and an old EeePC, I don't think either is multi-stream capable...
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    Is there something EA4500 does better than EA6500?

    Hello, I asked for router buying advice in the relevant forum, and two of the candidates are the Linksys EA4500 and EA6500. There is about 30 $ price difference between the two. If I choose to go for the EA4500 (over cheaper options like EA3500 or a TP-Link), I might just as well spend the...
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    TP-Link 3600 vs. equivalent Linksys (or more expensive EA-4500)

    Hello, I want to buy a dual-band wireless router with Gigabit LAN, in preparation for a NAS. I would prefer the router share a USB drive "acceptably" until I can purchase a NAS. It will be used in a 100 m2 apartment flat. Netgear is not sold here in Turkey, and as ASUS we only have the...
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    Confused about TS-110 and TS-119..

    Hello, I have managed to find QNap NAS'es in Turkey, and though they're very expensive (even without drive), I looked up the SNB reviews of the TS-110 and 119. Strange thing is, the TS-110 seems to have a higher "write performance" than the TS-119 on the smallnetbuilder review. It's also...
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    WD World Edition or Seagate Blackarmor?

    Hello again, Yes, I know these two fall squarely in the "consumer" grade.. I'm impressed by the business-grade, high-specced NAS'es out there but they're certainly out of my / our budget (and would be overkill). The iomega ix2-200d was a good suggestion, I can try to push it a bit more to the...
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    WD World Edition or Seagate Blackarmor?

    Oh, a reply from Tim Higgins! :) Thank you. At home it will stream to a Samsung 40C650, I am planning to buy a PS3 as well but it's not 100% certain. Anyway I think I won't need to stream to PS3 since the TV can play movies on its own. The Samsung TV mentions DLNA and uPNP but I'm not exactly...
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